National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's BC Rangers or Kitchee that keep their silverware dream alive.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
BC Rangers form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.BC Rangers have collected 0 points from their Premier League home games so far after 0-0-1.
The BC Rangers crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-6 to Kitchee here at Mong Kok Stadium in a Premier League match. As you see from the result above, BC Rangers suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
Previous to that game, a FA Cup home match hosting Hong Kong FC in a game that was won 4-0.Early season league goal statistics from BC Rangers's 1 home game: 1 goal, 6 conceded.
Kitchee form and stats
They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals.Kitchee are still undefeated on their travels in the Premier League. They have only played two games though, winning one and drawing the other.
Two travels in a row for Kitchee, whose manager Kim could celebrate last time after the Premier League win against BC Rangers. As you can tell from the results above, Kitchee was very dominant against BC Rangers, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 6-1 (!) with Beto (2), Tomas (2), Sohgo, Kwan and Cleiton providing the goals.
Before that, Kitchee secured a home win against Southern District (after extra-time) with the score 2-1.Kitchee have the goal stats of 8-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): BC Rangers zero wins, three draws and Kitchee seven victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Bazán 5 goals |   D. Damjanović 4 goals | T. Maronesi 2 goals |
BC Rangers missing players
Kitchee missing players
| BC Rangers | Kitchee | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Won | W | 7 | 17 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | ||
| 43 | 18 | Scored | S | 23 | 50 | ||
| 63 | 36 | Conceded | C | 10 | 16 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 76% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 52% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 24% | ||
| 40% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 64% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 12% | ||
| 4.5 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 6 | ||
| 7.1 | 6.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 4 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.7 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 9.3 | 9.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.4 | 10.7 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 36% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 37% | ||
| 14.5 | 13.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.2 | 8.2 | ||
| 7.2 | 6.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Southern District | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 12 |
| 2 | Kitchee | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 10 |
| 3 | Warriors | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 4 | Eastern | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | BC Rangers | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | -4 | 6 |
| 6 | Hong Kong FC | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -7 | 1 |
| 7 | HK U23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | -13 | 1 |
| 8 | Tai Chung | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -10 | 0 |
