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HarboroughTown
St AlbansCity
Mi-temps : 1–0
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Harborough Town hosts St Albans City in the third qualifying round of the FA Cup, with home advantage and a 1-0 victory over Rushall Olympic in the previous round.
Read the full analysisHarborough Town hosts St Albans City in the third qualifying round of the FA Cup, with home advantage and a 1-0 victory over Rushall Olympic in the previous round. St Albans nevertheless has a cleaner cup run, with five goals scored and none conceded across its three mentioned matches.
The decisive limitation is the lack of complete recent data on form, lineups, absences, and chance quality.
Harborough beat Rushall Olympic 1-0 on 19 September 2026 at home in the previous round, following a run of three goalless matches according to the club’s report published on 21 September. Its other recent matches, rest, and travel are not sufficiently documented.
St Albans drew 0-0 with Hashtag United at home, then won the replay 2-0 away and beat Witham Town 3-0, scoring five goals and conceding none in that FA Cup sequence reported by Harborough on 21 September. The standings, subsequent league matches, rest, and rotations have not been verified.
No recent meeting between Harborough Town and St Albans City was actually mentioned in the pages consulted. The Harborough Town-Worksop Town match on 13 September 2025, preserved in the archives, was not a head-to-head meeting.
No head-to-head prédictive signal can therefore be retained.
No absentees, suspended players, unavailable goalkeeper or uncertain starter was confirmed by the clubs, the FA or a press conference before October 1, 2026. Probable lineup pages from secondary websites are not taken into account.
The priorities to verify before the match are the official team sheet, the starting goalkeeper, Michael Jacobs’s presence and the attacking players mentioned for St Albans.
The match is a straight knockout for a place in the fourth qualifying round, with no first-leg score. Favorable scenario for Harborough: home advantage and a tight, direct and compact match could extend the logic of the 1-0 victory over Rushall Olympic.
Favorable scenario for St Albans: its cup run with five goals and no goals conceded could help it exploit transitions and set pieces. However, these mechanisms remain unverified: no source reliably documents recent pressing, transitions, box defending or set pieces.
Rotation is possible but unconfirmed.
Harborough are confirmed at home at Harborough Town Community Stadium, also known as the Beehive or Community Football Ground. The venue was confirmed by the club on September 21 and 22, 2026.
The FA lists a 15:00 British time kickoff, i.e. 14:00 UTC; the local time remains to be confirmed due to conflicting listings. The official lineups have not been announced.
Michael Jacobs starting for Harborough and Kai Brown, Inih Effiong or Mickey Faulkner starting for St Albans have not been confirmed.
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This fixture is over and appears in the public ledger with its result, even though no bet was recommended here.