Match Preview :- Coalville Town - Saturday September 23rd, 2017 (15:00:00)

On Saturday Celtic travel to the midlands to face Coalville Town, a team we have never faced before. Coalville are currently sixth in the league on nineteen points, thirteen points and eighteen places above Celtic, though they have played a game more. There will be a match centre and Twitter feed for this game.

Coalville had a start to the season that saw them lose their opening three games 3-1 at Farsley and a 1-0 at home to Stourbridge and a 3-0 at home to Warrington, before they got some points on the board, nicking a last minute winner away at Grantham. Although they lost their next match 4-2 away at Altrincham, their results have picked up, lifting them from the bottom four to just outside the top five. They are now unbeaten in six games, with five wins and a run of four home wins on the bounce. Their last home game saw them beat Witton Albion 2-1, and the game before they knocked five past Hednesford. Coalville finished last season in seventeenth place, with fifteen wins and fifty-five points, just nine points clear of the drop zone.

This season's current top scorer is Blair Anderson who has four goals, just ahead of Nathan Watson and Stephen Towers on three each. They've contributed to seventeen goals at a rate of 1.5 per game (1.8 at home), whilst they have conceded sixteen goals at a rate of 1.5 per game (1.3 at home). They kept two of their three clean sheets at home, but the two games they have failed to score have both been at home, the last time being mid-August.

In Coalville's last match, the 1-1 away draw with Sutton Coldfield Town, they lined up as:
1. Matthew Coton
2. Kyle Bryant
3. Cleveland Taylor
4. Danny Jenno
5. Dean Freeman
6. Steve Towers
7. Tom McGlinchey
8. Jermain Hollis
9. Daniel Creaney
10. Nathan Watson
11. Blair Anderson

In Celtic's last match, the 4-1 away defeat at Witton, Celtic lined up as:
1 Craig Ellison
2 Danny Morton
3 Joe Garvin
4 Greg Wilkinson
5 Luke Ashworth
6 Alex Honeyball
7 Aidan Chippendale
8 Oliver Roberts
9 Liam Dickinson
10 Sebastian Julien
11 John Cofie

A win for Celtic could lift us to twenty-first, but there is a definite gap starting to appear between us and the teams higher up the table. We have been in this position before, and we know where it leads, a win is the only option, even at this point in the season.

Other games this weekend:
Altrincham (16pts 8th) v Grantham Town (15pts 10th)
Farsley Celtic (20pts 5th) v Barwell (14pts 12th)
Halesowen Town (7pts 23rd) v Warrington Town (20pts 3rd)
Mickleover Sports (11pts 19th) v Hednesford Town (14pts 13th)
Nantwich Town (13pts 14th) v Ashton United (17pts 7th)
Shaw Lane (21pts 2nd) v Stafford Rangers (11pts 18th)
Stourbridge (20pts 4th) v Lancaster City (16pts 9th)
Sutton Coldfield Town (9pts 21th) v Buxton (15pts 12th)
Whitby Town (11pts 20th) v Marine (12pts 17th)
Witton Albion (21pts 1st) v Rushall Olympic (7pts 22nd)
Workington (13pts 15th) v Matlock Town (12pts 16th)

Directions
Distance: 93
Time: 2 hours

Take the Woodhead Pass to the M1 (junction 35A) Stay on the M1 for 53 miles to junction 23A (A42, M42, Tamworth).
Stay on the A42 for 8 miles to the A511 junction.
At the roundabout at the end of the slip road, turn left (exit 1 of 4) onto A511.
Stay on the A511 for 4 miles into Coalville.
At the roundabout, turn right (exit 3 of 4) onto Belvoir Road.
After a couple of hundred yards, turn right onto Owen Street.
The ground is at the end of the road.