National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Port or Buriram United that keep their silverware dream alive.
The hosts Port saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Thai Premier League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Chiangrai United.
Port form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Port, as the manager S. Treephan led his troops to eliminate Customs United and Bangkok, and reach the 3rd Round.18 points is a decent return from 8 Thai Premier League games here for Port. The data says 6 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. Port has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here. We remember; it was Bangkok Glass.
Happy days for Port in their previous game, a Thai Premier League match away at Chiangrai United that ended with a 2-1 victory. Heartbreak before that as Port lost 3-6 at Samut Prakan City's place.
World class coaching! That was the thoughts of S. Treephan when N. Sriyarnkem scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 67th minute. A late climax in the match against Chiangrai United as the winning goal came one minutes into overtime; scored by N. Sriyarnkem.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Sukhothai are coming to town in three days.
Port can score goals in their home matches. After 8 league matches they have found the net 19 times. Port are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 8 matches.
Buriram United form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Samut Songkhram and BEC Tero Sasana in order to reach 3rd Round of FA Cup. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals.As the visiting team in Thai Premier League matches, Buriram United have produced an overall stat of 5-1-3 so far. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Buriram United's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Trat game.
207 minutes! That's how long the Buriram goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Buriram play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Chonburi. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Prachuap at their stadium, the result 1-0.
A quick return to home after this game, as Buriram are hosting Ratchaburi in the Thai Premier League only three days away.
The travelling fans enjoy Buriram United's attacking play in away games, having scored 14 goals in 9 league matches away. 9 goals have been conceded by Buriram in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Port-Buriram United H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Port zero wins, Buriram United seven wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Port missing players
Buriram United missing players
| Port | Buriram United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 14 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 63 | 34 | Scored | S | 19 | 53 | ||
| 31 | 13 | Conceded | C | 17 | 29 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 64% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 56% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 11.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.2 | 10.5 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 4.7 | ||
| 47% | 51% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 51% | 39% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bangkok Glass | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 24 | 44 |
| 2 | Port | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 20 | 37 |
| 3 | Ratchaburi | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 29 |
| 4 | Buriram United | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 26 |
| 5 | Chiangrai United | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 26 |
| 6 | Samut Prakan City | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 25 |
| 7 | Muang Thong United | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 22 |
| 8 | Chonburi | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -8 | 22 |
| 9 | Bangkok United | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| 10 | Sukhothai | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 26 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 17 | -4 | 20 |
| 11 | Nakhon Ratchasima | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 18 | -6 | 19 |
| 12 | BEC Tero Sasana | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 17 | -10 | 19 |
| 12 | Pattaya United | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 4 |
| 13 | Suphanburi | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -5 | 17 |
| 14 | Prachuap | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -8 | 14 |
| 15 | Trat | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 19 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -17 | 10 |
| 16 | Rayong | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 34 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 17 | -23 | 10 |