Match Preview :- Atherton Collieries - Saturday September 14th, 2019 (15:00:00)

On Saturday, Celtic play our first home Saturday league match of the season when we host Atherton Collieries (kick off 3pm). Atherton are currently eighteenth in the Northern Premier League Premier six places and three points behind Celtic on four points.

Last season, Atherton won the league to earn promotion to the Northern Premier, seven points clear of also promoted Radcliffe Borough, with eighty-two points. They scored eighty-nine goals and conceded fifty-five, winning twenty-six games, drawing four and losing eight all season. This season, they have won one of their opening five matches, losing three and drawing one. They drew away on their opening game, 2-2 with Ashton United and won their last home match, 3-1 over Nantwich, but their other three league games have all been losses, most recently away at Bamber Bridge, losing 3-0.

Former Celt, Oli Roberts, is currently leading their top scorer chart with two of their seven goals, joint with Vincent Bailey. They have been scoring at a rate of 0.7 goals per game away from home (1.6 overall), whilst conceding two goals per game away from home and 2.2 overall. So far they have conceded eleven goals, six of which came away from home and scored two away from home, both in the Ashton match. Both of their failures to score came away from home, and they have kept no clean sheets.

Since the late eighties, at least, we've never met Atherton.

Atherton's most recent match was an FA Cup replay at home to FC United of Manchester, a game they lost 1-0 after holding FC United to a 2-2 draw away at FC United, equalising twice before a replay beckoned. In that match, Atherton lined up as:
1. Oliver Byrne
2. Niall Battersby
3. Gareth Peet
4. David Sherlock
5. Daniel Lafferty
6. Clive Smith
7. Jack Egan
8. Vincent Bailey
9. Tom Bentham
10. Jordan Cover
11. Bradley Lynch

Celtic will be once again without Crag Hobson, who is serving the last of his three match ban. In our last match, the 3-0 away loss at Basford, Celtic lined up as:
1. Alex Fojtíček
2. Declan Walker
3. Kallum Mantack
4. Anthony Whitehead
5. Mark Lees
6. Stephen O'Halloran
7. Scott Bakkor
8. Ross Dent
9. Liam MacDevitt
10. Nathan Valentine
11. Neil Kengni

Celtic can potentially rise five spots in the table with a win, whilst four teams are within range of overtaking us with a loss. A draw could see us rise one place, depending on Witton's home match to Gainsborough.

Table
P Pts
12 Morpeth Town 5 9
13 Stalybridge Celtic 6 7
14 Atherton Collieries 6 7
15 Bamber Bridge 7 7
16 FC United Of Manchester 7 6
Results
Sat 14 Sep 2019Stalybridge Celtic2-1
Tue 03 Sep 2019Bamber Bridge0-3
Sat 31 Aug 2019Nantwich Town3-1
Mon 26 Aug 2019Lancaster City0-1
Tue 20 Aug 2019Warrington Town2-4
Goal Scorers
Bailey, Vincent2
Roberts, Oliver2
Lynch, Bradley1
Bentham, Tom1
Lafferty, Daniel1
Previous Meetings
Saturday January 04, 2025
1
3
Tuesday August 13, 2024
0
5
Saturday April 22, 2023
3
3
Saturday November 19, 2022
1
1
Saturday March 26, 2022
0
1
Records
Home win Nantwich Town3-1Sat 31st Aug
Away win Never won away
Home defeat Warrington Town2-4Tue 20th Aug
Away defeat Bamber Bridge3-0Tue 3rd Sep
Home score Warrington Town2-4Tue 20th Aug
Away score Ashton United2-2Sat 17th Aug
Games Since... Overall Home Away
Last Scored 213
Last Conceded 111
Last Won 21n/a
Last Drew 121
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