National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Tai Chung or Warriors that keep their silverware dream alive.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Tai Chung form and stats
When playing at home in the Premier League, Tai Chung have managed 0 wins, 0 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 2 games. Chung has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager J. Esteva Pomares and the players.
W. Wong was the last player to score a league goal for Chung and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Tai Chung haven't scored in 220 minutes.
The fans are hoping that Tai Chung will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-4 away loss in the Premier League game against Eastern. As you see from the result above, Chung suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
Before that game, the home loss against Southern District with the scoreline 0-4.It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Tai Chung at home in the league. 3 on target and 9 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Warriors form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.Warriors have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Warriors's last game was the home draw against Kitchee (2-2). A comeback secured a 90 minute draw in the match against Kitchee. Warriors were trailing 0-2 but refused to surrender and clawed their way back to 2-2, with Manuel Bleda scoring the equalizer.
A 2-3 defeat away at Nasaf (after extra-time) before that.Head 2 Head
Last two meetings featuring these sides: Chung won zero, Warriors were winners in two and we saw zero draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, zero matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  K. Lau 1 goals | W. Wong 1 goals |   S. Kim 1 goals |
Tai Chung missing players
Warriors missing players
| Tai Chung | Warriors | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Won | W | 9 | 13 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 27 | 10 | Scored | S | 36 | 53 | ||
| 67 | 32 | Conceded | C | 17 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 79% | 72% | ||
| 48% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 57% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 43% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 24% | ||
| 36% | 45% | Failed to Score | F T | 7% | 20% | ||
| 5.5 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 6.5 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.4 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.3 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.2 | 12.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 11 | ||
| 4.8 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5.4 | ||
| 20% | 18% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 49% | 40% | ||
| 11.3 | 12.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10.8 | ||
| 6.1 | 7.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.6 | ||
| 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 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 |
| 3 | Eastern | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 4 | Rangers | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Warriors | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Hong Kong FC | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 1 |
| 7 | HK U23 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | -9 | 1 |
| 8 | Tai Chung | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -10 | 0 |