Truro City vs Cirencester Town Prediction & Betting Tips

How have they been playing?

Truro City's numbers look solid on the surface: nine wins from twenty matches, with only six defeats and a healthy 24 goals scored. That sample stretches back through last season's National League campaign, this season's step into National League South, a National League Cup run and now the FA Cup, so it's a mixed bag rather than a clean run of league form. There have been some big wins in there, like the 4-1 National League Cup victory over Leicester City U21 and a 3-0 league win over Dagenham & Redbridge, but also losses to sides like Tonbridge Angels and Salisbury.

Truro City: 20 completed matches; Cirencester Town: 6 completed matches.

Truro City

20 matches

Win

50% 10 / 20

Draw

20% 4 / 20

Loss

30% 6 / 20

Scored

26

Conceded

13

Difference

+13

Cirencester Town

6 matches

Win

33.3% 2 / 6

Draw

33.3% 2 / 6

Loss

33.4% 2 / 6

Scored

9

Conceded

9

Difference

0

Cirencester Town's sample is much smaller, just six matches, and split evenly with two wins, two draws and two losses. It includes an FA Cup exit via a replay defeat at Farnham Town after a 2-2 draw at home, plus some fixtures from over a year ago against Reading City. With so few recent matches to go on, and some of them from a different season entirely, it's hard to draw firm conclusions about where Cirencester are right now.

Truro's larger sample suggests more consistent output, but neither team's run gives a complete picture heading into this tie.

Comparative Team Statistics: Truro City vs Cirencester Town

Previous meetings

These two have met three times before, all in the FA Trophy rather than the FA Cup, and the most recent was back in 2021 when Truro won 1-0 at home. The other two meetings both came in December 2015, with a 2-2 draw at Truro and a 1-0 Cirencester win at their own ground.

Given the gap in time and the fact these were all Trophy ties rather than Cup matches, this history doesn't tell us much about how either side lines up for this particular game.

Context going into the tie

Both clubs arrive here having just been through cup action. Cirencester needed a replay to get knocked out by Farnham Town, drawing 2-2 at home before losing 2-1 away days later. Truro also had a recent FA Cup replay of their own, drawing 1-1 away at Merthyr Town after winning 2-0 in the first meeting.

With both sides handling replays in the same window, there's a natural question over freshness on the day, though there isn't enough here to say either side will be visibly affected.