Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Ruthin Town & The New Saints face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Welsh Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
This football pitch uses grass, unlike The New Saints's home arena. The former 37 games by the away side on grass have produced 24 wins, 9 draws and 4 losses.
The New Saints could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Challenge Cup game only four sleeps ago.
Ruthin Town form and stats
Last season their Welsh Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.The Ruthin followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at Memorial Playing Fields: A 1-2 defeat against Guilsfield.
Heartbreak before that as Ruthin Town lost 0-2 at Airbus UK's place.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Ruthin as they are travelling to their away game against Buckley Town in the FAW Championship. That match is three days after this one.
The New Saints form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for The New Saints, as they won the Welsh Cup.The away performances of The New Saints have been very solid so far with 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats in the Premier League. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue.
Saints delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against East Fife in their previous match; a Challenge Cup duel.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Penybont at their stadium, the result 4-1.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with The New Saints given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 16 matches with 11 wins as expected, 3 draws and 2 surprise home wins. The favourites won 7 of these games by at least two goals.
The New Saints have another game away in just three sleeps, a Premier League match vs Barry Town United. A back-breaking diary for the guests!
Saints have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 14 goals from 6 away matches. The New Saints are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 6 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  R. Brobbel 8 goals |  J. Williams 5 goals |  B. Clark 5 goals |
Ruthin Town missing players
The New Saints missing players
| Ruthin Town | The New Saints | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 17 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 9 | Won | W | 7 | 15 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 6 | ||
| 44 | 33 | Scored | S | 26 | 68 | ||
| 40 | 26 | Conceded | C | 17 | 30 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 94% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 65% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 76% | ||
| 40% | 47% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 54% | 64% | ||
| 20% | 24% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 40% | ||
| 64% | 71% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 64% | ||
| 20% | 24% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 6% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 12% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.6 | 5.4 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.9 | 2.7 | ||
| 1 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.2 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11.1 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.2 | 17.2 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 6.9 | ||
| 32% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 41% | ||
| 7.4 | 7.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.4 | 6.7 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | The New Saints | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 29 | 29 |
| 2 | Connah's Quay | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 17 | 25 |
| 3 | Newtown | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 22 |
| 4 | Caernarfon Town | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 20 |
| 5 | Cardiff MU | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 19 |
| 6 | Penybont | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | -1 | 17 |
| 7 | Bala Town | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 8 | Haverfordwest County | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 13 |
| 9 | Pontypridd Town AFC | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -7 | 12 |
| 10 | Barry Town United | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -8 | 9 |
| 11 | Colwyn Bay | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -8 | 8 |
| 12 | Aberystwyth Town | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 19 | -22 | 5 |
