Match Preview :- Brackley Town - Tuesday December 20th, 2016 (19:45:00)

On Tuesday, Celtic face Brackley Town (kick-off 7:45pm). Brackley are currently ninth in the table, on thirty-three points, twelve places and twenty-three points ahead of Celtic, despite having three games in hand. There will be a match centre for this game.

Brackley have lost just one game away from home this season, a 2-1 away defeat at Bradford Park Avenue in their last match ending a four game winning streak and one loss in thirteen games, the last unbeaten away record in the top seven tiers of English football to fall. In their nine away games this season, they have won four, drawn four and lost one. Their top scorer is Steve Diggin who has seven, two ahead of James Arnison and Lee Ndlovu. They score an average of 1.9 goals per game away from home (1.7 overall) and concede 1.3 goals per game away from home (1.2 overall), they have yet to have a clean sheet on the road, but they have also scored in every away game.

Celtic's last win over Brackley was last season both home and away when we won 3-1 at home thanks to goals from Chris Simm, Charlie Joyce and Alec Mudimu and 3-2 away with goals from Adam Farrell, Jack Higgins and Bohan Dixon. In four visits though, Brackley have won two, and drawn one. Their last win was a 5-1 win on Valentine's Day 2015 with a first half capitulation seeing Brackley take a five goal lead.

Brackley's last match was the 2-1 defeat away at Bradford Park Avenue. In that match, they lined up as:
1. Laurie Walker
2. Ellis Myles
3. Matt Lowe
4. Shane Byrne
5. Luke Graham
6. Gareth Dean
7. Glenn Walker
8. James Armson
9. Lee Ndlovu
10. Steve Diggin
11. Adam Walker

Celtic's last match was the 2-1 defeat away at Nuneaton. In that match, Celtic lined up as:
1. Grant Shenton
2. Danny Morton
3. Adam Mather
4. Keil O'Brien
5. Danny Hall
6. Aaron Chalmers
7. Kieran Dunbar
8. Gary Gee
9. Danny Wilkins
10. Florian Da Silva
11. Adam Morning

Celtic's injury list is still a worry. Matty Hughes and Callum Bagshaw are both doubts, whilst Jay Gorton, Nick Ryan, Scott Spencer and Danny Wisdom are all highly unlikely to feature. Celtic are ten points from safety, even assuming we can overcome a massive nineteen deficit in goal difference between us and nineteenth placed Gainsborough.

There is only one other game midweek before the Festive Fixtures, with Boston United taking on Curzon Ashton at Boston.

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