- Stafford form: Stafford Rangers have won 5 and lost 5 of their last 10 matches in all competitions.
- Halesowen form: Halesowen Town FC have won 7 of their last 10 in all competitions.
Yeltz seek to continue positive form
Halesowen form
Halesowen Town FC come into this FA Cup qualification 2026 clash in excellent form, currently unbeaten in 4 and having won 4 in a row. Saturday's visitors have a similar record across the last 4 games (W4) and so both teams will arrive confident of securing a positive result.
Halesowen's 3-0 win away at Kidsgrove Athletic last time out continued their positive run of results, but a 4-0 defeat at the hands of Gloucester City FC prior to that shows that they can be susceptible when they don't get going. Russ Penn's side play an aggressive 4-4-2 formation in which they press high, overloading the wide areas to keep the game moving at a good tempo.
Opposition threat
This won't be an easy game for Halesowen Town as Boro' set up shop to be a difficult team to play against. Graham Deakin's men play a 4-2-3-1 formation that is compact at the back and looks to strike on the counter attack.
Back Stafford to edge a low scoring game
Although Halesowen's form and overall quality probably has them down as favourites for this one, Stafford have a 3-1 home record in their last four games and look a better value selection at 3.11.
In a game like this where chances are likely to be at a premium, having a reliable finisher could be decisive and as such, we're going to side with a narrow home win.
The Stafford players are an organised unit and this could be a grinding cup match instead of the open shootout that some may expect.
- Kacy Butterfield has been a consistent finisher for the Yeltz, scoring 3 of their 6 goals across their last 5 games.
- They've won 3 of their last 4 home matches in all competitions and have conceded just once during that time.
- This is a fixture that seems to fit a low-scoring script and we're getting the under 2.5 goals line at a decent 2.29, but the visitors may have just enough about them to edge it and we're siding with both teams not to score in this game.
