After the weekend’s postponement, Celtic are back in action on Tuesday against Bamber Bridge. Bamber Bridge are currently two places above Celtic in thirteenth, one point ahead on nine. Kick off is 7:45 with tickets available on the gate or online.

With the same number of wins but one more draw than Celtic, Bamber Bridge are just ahead in the table. They started this season without a win in their opening four matches, losing 4-2 away at Stafford and 2-0 away at Warrington Rylands, and getting two 2-2 home draws with Marske and Liversedge. Home and away wins against FC United (2-1) and (most recently) away at Guiseley 1-0, lifted them up the table. Their most recent match saw them draw 1-1 at home to Marine. They’re unbeaten at home this season and have one win and two losses away.

Four different scorers have got two goals apiece this season, Finley Sinclair-Smith, Rhys Turner, Noah Alabi and Isaac Sinclair. Most of those goals came at home, with only Sinclair-Smith and Turner of those getting a goal away from home. They score an average of a goal per game away (1.4 overall) whilst conceding 2 goals per game (1.8 at home). They’ve kept their only clean sheet on the road this season (1-0 at Guiseley), and their only failure to score came away (2-0 at Warrington Rylands).

We’ve met Bamber Bridge in the Northern Premier over the past thirty years. They won their last visit here in one of the few games of the second curtailed season, when they beat us 2-1, with Celtic’s goal coming from an own goal from Nathan Pond off a free kick. That’s their only win at Bower Fold in thirty years. There have been two draws and three wins for Celtic in that time, our last win at Bower Fold coming in 2019, when Alistair Waddecar gave Bamber Bridge a first half lead, cancelling out Darius Osei’s early goal, only for Nathan Valentine and Craig Hobson to win it for Celtic in the second half.

In Bamber Bridge’s last match, the 1-1 home draw with Marine, Bamber Bridge lined up as:
1. Felix Goddard
2. Aaron Skinner
3. Harvey Hughes
4. Matthew Thomson
5. Macauley Wilson
6. Nathan Pond
7. Sheldon Green
8. David Perkins
9. Paul Dawson
10. Finley Sinclair-Smith
11. Isaac Sinclair

In Celtic’s last match, the 1-0 away defeat in the Trophy to Lancaster City, Celtic lined up as:
1. Greg Hall
2. Kyle Harrison
3. Ben Woods
4. Cesaire Lingouba
5. Dahrius Waldron
6. Tom Miller
7. Cameron Darkwah
8. Harry Benns
9. Raul Correia
10. Godwin Abadaki
11. Theo Bailey-Jones

Moses Yoak is available for selection again, whilst both Theo Bailey-Jones and Harry Benns managed over an hour in the replay. Godwin Abadaki limped off at Lancaster and may join Ozzie and Ciaran Summers in being assessed, with the weekend break useful for all three.