National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Dundee United or Stirling University that keep their silverware dream alive.
Both participants have had a decent time to rest since their previous game. Let's look for an animated game!
Dundee United form and stats
Dundee was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in the Scottish Cup.Dundee United travelled for their previous game, a trip to Hibernian that ended 2-2. Attacking player Middleton edged out all teammates in that game and managed a match rating of 7.62 out of 10. Middleton scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 22 successful passes (of 26 total).
Ahead of that match, Dundee United lost 0-2 at home to Rangers.Dundee have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and three practice matches played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Dundee United scored {1 goals} and let in {6 goals} during these three games.
Stirling University form and stats
They also participated in Scottish Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round.Two away games in a row for Stirling University, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Cowdenbeath.
Preceding that game was the away Football League victory against Edinburgh University with the score of 4-0.Nobody expects Stirling to collect anything from a game like this. The team has been David versus Goliath 35 times before, with the overall statistics of won 15, draw 4 and lost 16. When defeated, 11 matches have been lost by two or more goals.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  T. Watt 4 goals |  D. Levitt 4 goals |  S. Fletcher 4 goals |
Dundee United missing players
Stirling University missing players
| Dundee United | Stirling University | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Won | W | 8 | 18 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 28 | 16 | Scored | S | 25 | 56 | ||
| 48 | 22 | Conceded | C | 17 | 27 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 73% | 52% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 16% | ||
| 40% | 15% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 46% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 12% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.7 | 7.5 | ||
| 5 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 3.7 | ||
| 2 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 9.7 | 10.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 13.6 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.3 | 6.9 | ||
| 37% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 26% | ||
| 13.5 | 13.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.3 | 7 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 2.8 | ||
