Match Preview :- Warrington Town - Tuesday August 16th, 2022 (19:45:00)

Celtic’s touch start to the campaign continues as we welcome Warrington Town to Bower Fold on Tuesday for a 7:45pm kick off. Tickets can be purchased online or on the gate. This game is dedicated to the memory of Richard Tipping and there will be a minutes silence before kick off.

Warrington won their opening match, beating Morpeth 2-0 in Warrington, carrying on from where they left off last season. Last season saw them finish in the play-off spots after being there or there abouts for the entirety of the campaign. Their opening eleven games last season were a mixed bag, though they won the opening two, beating FC at home and Stafford away, they lost four, with Scarborough and South Shields beating them on the road, whilst Matlock and Basford beat them at home. They did win five in total from those eleven, and draw two. In their next twenty matches, they only lost three more times, with seven draws, keeping them in the top five and in contention for top spot. Four losses in their last ten put paid to that dream, dropping them from third to fifth and coming close to not making it all, with Bamber Bridge only two points off them.

Last season’s top scorer, Jordan Buckley is still with the Yellows. Last season he scored 17 goals, 5 more than his nearest rival, Josh Amis. He has already got his scoring boots on for this season, having scored in their opening match, along with the other Buckley, Isaac. On average, they scored 1.5 goals per game away from home (1.6 in total), finding the net 31 times (67 in total) and failing to score only 3 times from 7 in total. Defensively, they conceded 47 goals in total, with 23 of those on the road, at a rate of 1.1 per game and keeping 8 of their 15 clean sheets while traveling. They had the fifth best away defence in the season, and the fourth best away attack.

Our last meeting with Warrington came towards the end of last season, with Warrington visiting Bower Fold and walking away 3-0 victors, to add to their 3-0 win at their place (their only win over us in Warrington). They did manage to visit us just before Lockdown in 2020, again winning, this time 2-0. Our last win over them was in 2019, when we beat them 2-1 in Warrington, with goals from Neil Kengni and Jon Ustabasi, with a late, late goal ruining the clean sheet for Alex Fojticek. With Warrington having won on their last three visits to Bower Fold, the last time Celtic beat them here was 2018, when we won 2-0, with Liam Dickinson and Greg Wilkinson getting our goals and Jack Walton finishing his loan spell from Barnsley with a hard fought clean sheet.

Warrington won their last match, beating Morpeth 2-0 in Warrington. In that match, they lined up as:< br/> 1. Tony Thompson
2. Josh Seary
3. Andy White
4. Tom Hannigan
5. Evan Gumbs
6. Jay Harris
7. Isaac Buckley-Ricketts
8. Saan Williams
9. Josh Amis
10. Bohan Dixon
11. Luke Duffy

Celtic, in contrast lost away at South Shields by the same score line, 2-0. In that match, we lined up as:
1. Greg Hall
2. Kyle Harrison
3. Ciaran Summers
4. Louis Danquah
5. Dahrius Waldron
6. Tom Miller
7. Aaron Grewal
8. Ethan Padden
9. Raul Correia
10. Godwin Abadaki
11. Ozzie Abadaki

Warrington are favourites to finish in the top five. In the last match, the Celtic defence played exceedingly well against full time opposition. At home, hopefully, they can take that positivity and turn it into Chris Willcock’s first win.

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