Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Connah's Quay & Ruthin Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
The hosts Connah's saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Premier League. This match was also played here at Deeside College Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Ruthin Town have had more rest.
Connah's Quay form and stats
Connah's Quay's last game was hosting Cardiff MU and winning 2-0.
Before that, a strong away victory at Denbigh Town. A Welsh Cup game. Everyone expects Connah's Quay to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found 4 games: 4 home wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Connah's Quay have won with at least two goals margin 3 times in similar situations.
Connah's are traveling soon after this match as the Premier League match at Penybont awaits in four days.
Connah's Quay 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 0 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Connah's Quay scored {3 goals} and let in {4 goals} during these two games.
Ruthin Town form and stats
Two away matches in a row for Ruthin Town, whose boss Hudson could celebrate last time after the Welsh Cup win against Y Rhyl 1879.
A home win before that, celebrating 3-2 vs Chirk AAA.Nobody expects Ruthin to collect anything from a game like this. The team has been David versus Goliath 49 times before, with the overall statistics of won 20, draw 11 and lost 18. When defeated, 9 matches have been lost by two or more goals.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The FAW Championship trip to Prestatyn Town.
Head 2 Head
Connah's Quay have been victorious in all of the 4 latest duels against this opponent. Another win today?Top Goalscorers
  M. Wilde 5 goals | R. Stratulis 2 goals | G. Horan 1 goals |
Connah's Quay missing players
Ruthin Town missing players
| Connah's Quay | Ruthin Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 12 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 40 | 26 | Scored | S | 19 | 44 | ||
| 14 | 5 | Conceded | C | 13 | 27 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 53% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 80% | ||
| 28% | 20% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 56% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 7% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 16% | ||
| 28% | 13% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 60% | ||
| 64% | 80% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 16% | ||
| 4.5 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 6.8 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0.5 | 1.8 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.9 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 9.6 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 1.5 | 10.1 | ||
| 4 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 5.1 | ||
| 40% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 150% | 37% | ||
| 6.8 | 6.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 1 | 4.9 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 2.5 | ||
