Celtic face another north-eastern team on Tuesday when Marske United visit Bower Fold in the league. Marske have settled quickly in the Northern Premier league, and are ninth in the league on seventeen points, six places and six points ahead of Celtic with three games in hand. Tickets are available on the gate or online, kick-off is 7:45pm.

Marske are four points off top spot, with at least three games in hand on the top three. With three wins and a draw at home, they are unbeaten there. Away from home, they’ve lost two, won two and drawn one. From their last three away matches, Marske beat Guiseley 3-1, but in the away games either side of that they lost 1-0 to Marine and, in their most recent away match, 3-0 to Warrington Rylands. Their other win away from home came at Radcliffe when they won 4-2. Away from the league, in the past two weeks they have been knocked out of the FA Cup by South Shields (losing 5-2) and edging past Clitheroe on penalties after it finished 2-2. Both those games were away.

Though Bamber Bridge have scored more goals, Marske still have the third best attack in the league, as they’ve scored their seventeen goals in fewer games at a rate of 1.9 goals per game. Away from home, they have scored nine, at a rate of 1.8 goals per game. They have yet to keep a clean sheet on the road this season, having kept one at home, and have conceded nine away goals at a rate of 1.8 per game, from a total of thirteen conceded at a rate of 1.4 per game overall. Marske’s early contender for the golden boot is Adam Boyes who has scored five, with Dale Hopson two behind.

This is Marske’s first visit to Bower Fold, with the two sides having never met.

In Marske’s last league match, the 3-2 home win over Stafford, Marske lined up as:
1. Ryan Catterick
2. Connor Smith
3. Joey Hope
4. Glen Butterworth
5. Jason Kennedy
6. Adam Wheatley
7. Josh MacDonald
8. Adam Gell
9. Rob Guilfoyle
10. Connor Simpson
11. Theo Hudson

In Celtic’s last match, the 2-1 home defeat to South Shields in the FA Trophy, Celtic lined up as:
1. Greg Hall
2. Ethan Padden
3. Ciaran Summers
4. Tom Miller
5. Dahrius Waldron
6. Moses Yoak
7. Godwin Abadaki
8. Masai Arbouin
9. Domaine Rouse
10. Theo Bailey-Jones
11. Osebi Abadaki

Tinashe Chakwana, Kyle Harrison, Raul Correia and Raheem Hanley were all missing for the South Shields match though injury.