On Tuesday, Celtic have their penultimate home match when we face Alfreton Town (kick off 7:45pm). Alfreton are currently eleventh in the table on fifty-four points, two places and five points ahead of Celtic. There will be a match centre for this game.

Alfreton didn't have the best of 2015s, with five wins in their opening twenty-one matches prior to Boxing Day. Things have picked up through 2016, though, with only two losses since Boxing Day in eighteen matches. That said, in their last eight matches, they have had two losses, two wins and four draws, seeing them drop from seventh. They beat Harrogate in their last home match, and Corby in their last away match. Their last away defeat was the 5th of December, away at Lowesoft, and they have a better away record than home record, with five away losses, six away draws and eight away wins, compared to at home with eight losses, six draws and six wins.

Their top scorer is Sam Jones who has eleven goals. Like his team, mostly in the second half. Indeed, twenty of their fifty six goals have come in the last quarter of an hour. Thye have conceded fifty goals, with a fairly even split between home and away. Though they've done well away (failing to score only three times), they have conceded in most games, keeping only two clean sheets. They've scored in every game since Boxing Day apart from a 1-0 loss at home to FC United of Manchester.

We beat Alfreton at their place 3-1 earlier in the season, with a Steve Tames brace and a late goal from Alex Johnson sealing a deserved and comfortable win. Alfreton's last visit to Bower Fold was in October 2010 when they won 2-1, whilst you have to go back five visits to March 2008 to find Celtic's last victory over Alfreton, when we won 3-1, Steve Torpey getting the brace and Ashley Winn getting the third. In the last nine visits, Celtic have won four, lost four and drawn just once.

Alfreton Town's last match, the 3-2 home win over Harrogate Town, saw them line up as:
1. Matt Duke
2. Cliff Moyo
3. Julian Banton
4. Todd Jordan
5. Niall Heaton
6. Cecil Nyoni
7. Joe Leesley
8. AndiThanoj
9. Sam Jones
10. Lindon Meikle
11. Dan Bradley

Celtic's last match, the deserved 1-0 win over FC United saw us line up as:
1. Tony McMillan
2. Peter Wylie
3. Danny Wisdom
4. Matty Hughes
5. Jack Higgins
6. Aaron Chalmers
7. Charlie Joyce
8. Alec Mudimu
9. Adam Farrell
10. Chris Simm
11. Steve Tames

Celtic now mathematical safety (Brackley and Telford play each other this week, so only one can over take us). We have now surpassed last season's total point haul, with three games left. A win for Celtic could lift us one place, whilst a loss could see us drop two places if both Worcester and Gloucester win their games.

Other games this week:
Brackley (41pts 19th) v AFC Telford (43pts 18th)
Gloucester City (46pts 16th) v Nuneaton Town (64pts 6th)
Lowestoft Town (41pts 20th) v Worcester City (47pts 15th)