Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Naxxar Lions & San Gwann face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
San Gwann could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a First Division game only four sleeps ago.
Naxxar Lions form and stats
Last season, Naxxar's Fa Trophy journey ended in the 8th finals.The Naxxar Lions crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Pembroke Athleta here at MFA Centenary Stadium in a First Division match.
Heartbreak before that as Naxxar lost 0-3 at Marsaxlokk's place.Naxxar have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and two practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Naxxar Lions scored 3 goals and let in 2 goals during these two games.
San Gwann form and stats
Gwann's mission in Fa Trophy last season failed in the preliminary round.Gwann's previous game was their home loss versus Mqabba (0-2).
A 1-1 draw at Pembroke Athleta's stadium before that.Just as the home team, San Gwann have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 2 San Gwann wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Naxxar Lions three wins, two draws and San Gwann two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Naxxar Lions missing players
San Gwann missing players
| Naxxar Lions | San Gwann | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 48 | 31 | Scored | S | 29 | 52 | ||
| 20 | 10 | Conceded | C | 22 | 37 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 54% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 92% | 64% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 28% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.7 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 3.7 | ||
| 2 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.2 | 4.8 | ||
| 3 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 2.9 | ||
| 56% | 64% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 77% | 77% | ||
| 4.4 | 5.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 4.6 | 3.4 | ||
| 1.7 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.2 | ||