Match Preview :- Brackley Town - Saturday March 19th, 2016 (15:00:00)
On Saturday, Celtic face Brackley Town in a must win game for both teams (kick off 3pm). Brackley currently sit two places and two points behind Celtic in nineteenth, though they have played two games more. There will be a match centre for this game.

Brackley are two points clear of the bottom three, so any loss for them could allow Lowestoft to overtake them and dump them back into the bottom three, a position they've occupied for most of the season. Celtic on the other hand are four points clear of the drop zone, having steadily fallen from mid table. Much of that fall has been due to postponed games, and should we win all our games in hand, we'd be thirteenth. Brackley have won three games on the road all season, and had five draws, however, those three away wins have come in their last four away matches, beating Lowestoft, Hednesford and Tamworth.

Their top scorer this season has got over a third of their thirty-nine goals, Steve Diggin has fourteen goals, making him the fifth highest goal scorer in the league, his nearest rival for the Brackley Golden Boot is David Moyo, who has seven. Only Bradford and Gloucester have scored less goals than Brackley, they have failed to score in eleven matches this season, eight of their away games. Two of their eight clean sheets have come on the road. They score an average of 0.8 goals per game away (1.2 overall) and concede 1.3 goals per game on the road (1.4 overall).

Steve Diggin missed Brackley's last match, a goalless home draw to Bradford Park Avenue. In that match, Brackley lined up as:
1. Sam Hornby
2. Junior English
3. Curtis McDonald
4. Ryan Clarke
5. Luke Graham
6. Ryan Austin
7. Courtney Cameron
8. Matty Lowe
9. Lee Ndlovu
10. David Moyo
11. Glenn Walker

Loan signing, Charlie Joyce, limped off during Celtic's bruising encounter with North Ferriby last weekend. That game finished 1-0 to Ferriby, and in that match, Celtic lined up as:
1. Tony McMillan
2. Peter Wylie
3. Danny Wisdom
4. John Shaw
5. Jack Higgins
6. Aaron Chalmers
7. Charlie Joyce
8. Dale Wright
9. Chris Simm
10. Adam Farrell
11. Aidan Chippendale

Celtic need to convert games into points. We are just two wins off last season's finishing total of forty-five points, which was enough for safety last season. A win against Brackley could see us lifted three places, whilst a loss could see us drop to nineteenth, last season's finishing position.

There is a full scheduled for Saturday, other matches:
AFC Fylde( 62pts 2nd) v Nuneaton Town (55pts 5th)
AFC Telford (36pts 18th) v Corby Town (30pts 22nd)
Alfreton Town (46pts 11th) v FC United of Manchester (39pts 14th)
Boston United (55pts 6th) v North Ferriby United (60pts 3rd)
Bradford Park Avenue (37pts 16th) v Tamworth (53pts 7th)
Chorley (49pts 8th) v Curzon Ashton (48pts 9th)
Gloucester City (42pts 13th) v Solihull Moors (71pts 1st)
Hednesford Town (30pts 21st) v Stockport County (48pts 10th)
Lowestoft Town (33pts 20th) v Gainsborough Trinity (43pts 12th)
Worcester City (38pts 15th) v Harrogate Town (59pts 4th)

Match Sponsor
Brother UK
Ball Sponsor
The Torr Family
Man of the Match Sponsor
Tameside College
Programme Sponsor
Mike Brierley