On Saturday Celtic host Wythenshawe Town in a league match. Wythenshawe are currently twenty-first in the league on thirteen points, twelve points and thirteen places below Celtic having played two more games. Kick-off 15.03pm.

Two of Wythenshawe’s three wins this season have come away from home when they beat Trafford at the start of the season, and Sporting Khalsa in September. Since then, their only other win was at home to Witton at the end of October. Wythenshawe’s other point picked up on the road was a goalless draw at Newcastle (Wythenshawe’s only clean sheet of the season), and they have lost the other six away matches. From the available twenty-seven points, Wythenshawe have picked up seven, which is better form than at home, where they picked up six points from twenty-seven. They’ve now lost their last three and have won one, drawn one in their last nine.

Only Khalsa have conceded more goals on the road than Wythenshawe’s twenty-one. In Wythenshawe’s last six matches, they have conceded sixteen goals, scoring five in the process. In their last six away matches, they have conceded fourteen, and scored five. In their last two away games, they’ve conceded nine. On average they score 0.9 goals per game (home and away), and have failed to score nine times, with five of those away. They concede at a rate of 2.3 goals per away game, and 2.1 overall. A quarter of all their goals are scored just before the hour mark, making this their most dangerous period, whilst they are vulnerable to early goals (six in the opening quarter of an hour) and late goals (nine in the last quarter of an hour). Wythenshawe also have a rocky period ten minutes after half time, though nobody has scored against them in the ten minutes right after the interval.

We’ve met Wythenshawe Town twice, both last season, with Wythenshawe’s last visit to Bower Fold finishing 2-1 to Celtic, Jack Irlam and Matty Bryan turning around an early one goal deficit. The last meeting was in Wythenshawe, finishing 2-0, with Jack Irlam and Max Leonard scoring either side of half time to make the tricky conditions comfortable.

Wythenshawe’s last match, a 2-1 home loss to Runcorn, Wythenshawe lined up as:
1. Aidan McKerney
2. Darius Smith
3. Thomas Fagan
4. Domaine Rouse
5. Dan Dolling
6. Jack Taylor
7. Demi Rhami
8. Astley Mulholland
9. Wealth Dasilva
10. Kobe McWilliams
11. Dylan Woods

In Celtic’s last match, the 2-1 away defeat at Lower Breck, Celtic lined up as:
1. Charlie Monks
2. Mike Koral
3. Kyle Brownhill
4. Jordan Butterworth
5. Jack Byrne
6. Aaron Chalmers
7. Max Leonard
8. Liam Tongue
9. Ruben Jerome
10. Brandon Newell
11. Jack Irlam

Runcorn (at home to Clitheroe), Atherton (at home to Avro) and Vauxhall (away at Trafford) are all ahead of Celtic by one point, and Celtic have a game in hand on both Atherton and Vauxhall. With the right results, Celtic could go fifth, and keep in touch with the top four. More worryingly, six teams are all within three points of Celtic, so a loss on Saturday, with the wrong results, could see Celtic drop to thirteenth.