MATCH
East Thurrock United 1–5 Stevenage Borough
FA Cup R3Q · Saturday 9 October 1993
W
Result
A
Venue
622
Attendance
Unknown
Referee
Updated
Goalscorers
Team
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(7)Match Notebook
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Martin Gittings scored 4 goals — Boro’s first hat-trick since Martin Gittings against Marlow on 4 October 1993.
Martin Gittings scored in 6 successive Boro’ matches. He became the 3rd recorded Boro’ player to do so. The most recent other player was Jim Beech (8 September 1984).
This was Boro’s biggest win over East Thurrock United by goal margin in the senior archive since July 1980. The previous best was 1–0 on 1 September 1990.
After this match, Boro’s senior record against East Thurrock United since July 1980 stood at P2 W2 D0 L0.
Boro scored 5 goals in a match for the first time since a 5–1 result against Dorking on 31 August 1993.
This was Boro’s 4th FA Cup Third Qualifying Round match and our 1st win at this stage. We’ve kept 0 clean sheets in these matches.
This was Boro’s 2nd FA Cup meeting with East Thurrock United. We’ve won 2, drawn 0 and lost 0 of those matches.
This was Boro’s 12th 5–1 win since July 1980 — their joint 18th-most common senior scoreline at the time.
Boro’ have now played 5 competitive matches on 9 October — winning 4, drawing 1 and losing 0. We’ve scored 12 goals, conceded 5 and kept 1 clean sheets on this day. This was Boro’s biggest win on this date.
Boro’ have now won 7 matches in a row.
Boro’ are now unbeaten in 18 matches.
This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.