Next up – Welwyn Garden City
Tuesday, 14th October at Herns Way, Welwyn Garden City, Herts. AL7 1TA
Pitching-in Southern League Division One (Central); kick off 7.45pm.
Admission
£10, concessions £5 and under-16s free. Adults with a current season ticket for a professional club free.
The match
We’ve faced a few sides from the lower reaches of the division just lately but that categorisation can’t be made about the Citizens who, after Saturday’s games, sit in 10th place in the division. We can expect them to be more of a test especially with home advantage. Their defeat at Hitchin on the weekend has left them short of the play-off places but doubtless ready to push back up the table. They are currently on four wins and two draws from their nine league games.
There again Ware are on a good run at the moment with four wins on the trot, the last three bringing eleven goals scored and none conceded. They are the division’s highest scorers. Paul Halsey is aware that chances missed by Marlow on Saturday might have been buried by teams higher up the table so will want his back four on top form.
Sami Moutawafiq is available for Ware after missing the Marlow game. We may see former Ware favourite Tom Bruno in for The Citizens’ though he was not in their line-up for the Hitchin game suggesting that he may be injured after being subbed in their previous game.
There were away wins for both sides in last season’s meetings between us. Joe Dearman, formerly of the Citizens and now at Kings Langley, scored for us in September’s 2-1 home defeat whilst Theo Ofori and Gucci Soulya-Osekanongo took revenge without reply at Herns Lane in April.
In the (slightly) wider world
Of the other midweek fixtures the most engaging looks like being at Leighton Town. The unbeaten home side (second in the table with six wins and a draw) meet unbeaten Biggleswade Town (3rd, five wins and four draws). Will one of them lose their record? Will Biggleswade add another draw to their collection?
Monday night sees league leaders, the other Biggleswade host Hitchin. This is a re-run of their recent FA Trophy meeting which Biggleswade won 3-1. If Hitchin want to boost their promotion hopes they’ll have to do better than that. A draw at least.
Commentary
If you can’t make it to Herns Way there will be commentary from Pete and Symon of “90 minutes live” starting at 7.40pm on https://90minuteslivefootball.mixlr.com/events/4578507
The officials
The referee for our game is Thomas Kelly and the assistants are Richard Barlow and Cameron Rayment.
