[ Sat 26th Jan ] v Banbury Utd, KO 3pm ESCP HOME

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Official Match Preview

http://www.afcdiamonds.com/afc-rushden- ... th-january

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NOTE: We have some Live Football in the Crosskeys Bar on Saturday, both before and after the match.

Pre-match - Kick off 12:30pm - Accrington Stanley v Derby County FA Cup 4th Round BT Sport 2 / BT Sport 4K UHD

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And after the match, with a 5:30pm Kick Off on BBC TV we have Millwall v Everton FA Cup 4th Round

[BartonRaz]

The fixture against Banbury earlier in the season was the only time this season we've been comprehensively outplayed by the opposition. 1-0, could have been 6-0.

They had two huge central defenders so I think what's become our normal 4-3-3 style isn't going to work on Saturday and we might need to play a different way as a one-off. If we do play with 4-3-3 we'll surely have to play as we did in the second half at Bedworth, finding areas of space out wide and trying to pass through, rather than as we did in the first half when we were just looking for Tom Lorraine with a long ball every time.

[sussexdiamond]

The fixture against Banbury earlier in the season was the only time this season we've been comprehensively outplayed by the opposition. 1-0, could have been 6-0.

They had two huge central defenders so I think what's become our normal 4-3-3 style isn't going to work on Saturday and we might need to play a different way as a one-off. If we do play with 4-3-3 we'll surely have to play as we did in the second half at Bedworth, finding areas of space out wide and trying to pass through, rather than as we did in the first half when we were just looking for Tom Lorraine with a long ball every time.

It will help to play with eleven men for all the game . I wonder if Westbrook will return for this one? We have some tough home matches coming up so if we are to maintain our play off challenge this is game we need to get maximum points .

[TwinkleToesTomlin]

Huge game. Banbury blow so hot and cold, they lost comfortably to Halesowen recently yet scored 20 goals against, K*ttering, Coalville, Barwell and Alvechurch in the last couple of months, and like Raz said shouldv'e scored 6/7 against us.

One promising stat is they have won their last 5 homes games but have only chalked up 2 points from their last 5 away games.

A lot of our rivals in the league face each other in the coming weeks and will inevitably drop points so we've just got to keep doing what we're doing.

Personally, I wouldn't change the formation now. If anything I feel we should have been a little bit more positive against Lowestoft and starting with both Jack and Tom up top.

Our back 4 will win us the game on Saturday.

[Brownie]

Huge game. Banbury blow so hot and cold, they lost comfortably to Halesowen recently yet scored 20 goals against, K*ttering, Coalville, Barwell and Alvechurch in the last couple of months, and like Raz said shouldv'e scored 6/7 against us.

One promising stat is they have won their last 5 homes games but have only chalked up 2 points from their last 5 away games.

A lot of our rivals in the league face each other in the coming weeks and will inevitably drop points so we've just got to keep doing what we're doing.

Personally, I wouldn't change the formation now. If anything I feel we should have been a little bit more positive against Lowestoft and starting with both Jack and Tom up top.

Our back 4 will win us the game on Saturday.

Our rivals??? TTT, presumed you have joined the ever increasing band that considered maintaining a place in Step 3 and a lower mid table finish acceptable last August and now have gone over to the dark side and not making the play off's will be failure, oh you are fickle

[BartonRaz]

An interesting result last night - Hitchin 3-0 King's Lynn. Lynn's first loss in the league since September, and back-to-back wins for Hitchin against sides in the top 3. Our win there now looks very good.

Increasingly looking like a fight between Lowestoft, St. Neots and Halesowen to avoid the drop with only one of them likely to do it. Based on what i've seen Lowestoft looked much better than those other two sides.

[Formic]

An interesting result last night - Hitchin 3-0 King's Lynn. Lynn's first loss in the league since September, and back-to-back wins for Hitchin against sides in the top 3. Our win there now looks very good.

Increasingly looking like a fight between Lowestoft, St. Neots and Halesowen to avoid the drop with only one of them likely to do it. Based on what i've seen Lowestoft looked much better than those other two sides.

I'd agree with that, although it will be worth monitoring Barwell for their next few matches. They haven't won in their last 6 games, and are only 7 points off the drop zone, but their next five games are all against teams below them. If their poor run continues against those teams they might be relegation contenders too.

[UttoDiamond]

Opposition view -

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/sport ... -1-8781264

[Trek]

Opposition view -

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/sport ... -1-8781264

And there was me thinking that Westbrook was sent off not Ashton!