Match Preview :- Nantwich Town - Saturday January 21st, 2023 (15:00:00)

On Saturday, weather permitting, Celtic travel across Cheshire to Nantwich for our vital league clash. Nantwich are currently level on points with twenty-seven and one place above Celtic in seventeenth by goal difference. Kick off 3pm.

After opening the season with two wins in their first sixteen games, Nantwich have pulled themselves off the foot of the league with two losses in their last nine games. In that period they have had five wins, four of which were away. Their last two home games were both 1-1 draws with Gainsborough and, in their last match, Warrington Town. Their last home win was a 3-0 defeat of Morpeth, adding to a 1-0 earlier in the season when they beat Belper Town. Their last home loss was at the end of October when Ashton beat them 2-1.

Three different players are tying the league goal scorer’s chart, Sean Cooke, Dan Cockerline and Byron Harrison all on three goals each. Only Liversedge have scored fewer goals this season, giving them the second worst attack overall, whilst at home, Liversedge and Lancaster have scored fewer giving them the third worst home attack. On average they score 0.9 goals per game. Defensively they have the fifth best home defence in the league, with South Shields, Hyde, Gainsborough and Marine the only teams to concede fewer goals, giving them an average of 1.2 goals per home game, and 1.1 overall. Two of their five clean sheets have come at home, whilst they have failed to score four times at home from nine overall. With nine of their twenty-nine goals conceded around the half time interval, this is their most vulnerable period.

We’ve already played Nantwich this season, back in September when they beat us 2-1, with Theo Bailey-Jones’s opener overturned out either side of half time. They have won all six of the last six encounters between the two teams, with Celtic’s last win back in 2018, when we won 1-0 at home in the FA Trophy thanks to a Scott Bakkor penalty. Our last league win in Nantwich was in the same year, when we won 3-2 with a brace from Matty Wolfenden either side of a Connor Hughes goal, scoring the winner in stoppage time. In our last ten visits, we have won four and lost six.

In Nantwich’s last match, the 3-1 away win over Belper Town, Nantwich lined up as:
1. Tom Jackson
2. Ben Rhodes
3. Ben Algar
4. Harry Middleton
5. Tom Wilson
6. Todd Jordan
7. Rio Molyneaux
8. Ethan Cartwright
9. James Tague
10. Jacob Gratton
11. Shaun Tuton

In Celtic’s last league match, the 1-1 away draw with Lancaster, Celtic lined up as: 1. Greg Hall
2. Ciaran Summers
3. Matty Carson
4. Kyle Harrison
5. Dahrius Waldron
6. Tom Miller
7. Theo Bailey-Jones
8. Domaine Rouse
9. Raul Correia
10. Chris Dagnall
11. Nathan Caine

Raul Correia was subbed off in Celtic’s last match, the 3-0 win over Cammell Laird in the Cheshire Senior Cup after picking up a minor knock, whilst Dahrius Waldron, Nathan Caine and Chris Dagnall were rested.

A win would see us go above Nantwich and could see us overtake Lancaster (away at Liversedge), Morpeth (away at Bamber Bridge), and Atherton (away at Radcliffe) depending on results and reach fourteenth. A loss, however, could see us drop into the bottom four with Whitby breathing down our necks one point behind us and away at Warrington Town.

Table
P Pts
16 Morpeth Town 24 28
17 Lancaster City 23 28
18 Nantwich Town 26 27
19 Whitby Town 24 26
20 Marske United 18 23
Results
Sat 21 Jan 2023Stalybridge Celtic0-4
Sat 14 Jan 2023Belper Town3-1
Sat 07 Jan 2023Guiseley1-2
Mon 02 Jan 2023Warrington Town1-1
Mon 26 Dec 2022Stafford Rangers0-3
Goal Scorers
Cooke, Sean3
Cockerline, Daniel3
Harrison, Byron3
Malumo, Myiwa2
Nevin, Harry2
Previous Meetings
Saturday November 09, 2024
4
0
Saturday April 06, 2024
4
2
Saturday November 11, 2023
3
2
Saturday January 21, 2023
0
4
Saturday September 17, 2022
1
2
Records
Home win Morpeth Town3-0Sat 12th Nov
Away win Belper Town1-3Sat 14th Jan
Home defeat Whitby Town0-2Sat 24th Sep
Away defeat Stafford Rangers3-0Mon 26th Dec
Home score Warrington Rylands2-2Tue 16th Aug
Away score Belper Town1-3Sat 14th Jan
Games Since... Overall Home Away
Last Scored 111
Last Conceded 111
Last Won 131
Last Drew 212
Directions
Distance: 53
Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes

From the M67 join the M60 towards Stockport.
After 7 miles, leave the M60 at Junction 4 (Chester, M6) to join the M56 Stay on the M56 for 7 miles, coming off at junction 7 (Northwich, M6) to join the A556.
The roundabout can be avoided by using the slip road.
Stay on the A556 for 5 miles to the roundabout with the M6.
Join the M6 southbound (Birmingham) avoiding the roundabout by using the slip road.
Stay on the M6 for 18 miles to Junction 16 (A500, Crewe and Nantwich).
At the roundabout at the end of the slip road, turn right (3 of 4) onto the A500.
Stay on the A500 for one mile to a roundabout with the A51, cross the roundabout (2 of 4) onto the A51 into Nantwich.
After a mile and two roundabouts (first exit off each), cross the roundabout by the station onto the A530 (Water Lode).
Follow Water Lode round for half a mile, and the club is on the right hand side.