Match Preview | Alfreton Town (H)

Match preview by Leon Higgins

Defeat at Aggborough on Saturday has seen the Nash drop to 8th in the league table, sitting a point outside the playoff places.

With Easter always a decisive weekend in the calendar, Curzon know that the two fixtures in 4 days across the weekend against teams with only pride to fight for in Alfreton and Farsley Celtic on Easter Monday represent a great chance to get much needed points if Craig Mahon’s side want to be involved in the play offs at the end of the month.

With none of the promotion chasing teams losing on Saturday, The Nash lost ground on Chorley who drew at home to Marine while Hereford, King’s Lynn and Buxton all won on the road at Oxford City, Farsley Celtic and Scarborough respectively.

With three games left, the race for automatic promotion is as tight as ever. Scunthorpe sit top on 84 points while Kidderminster and Brackley sit behind on 83, Chester on 78, Chorley, Hereford and King’s Lynn on 73 round off the play off places. Curzon and Buxton on 72 and 71 points round off the chasing duo.

Good Friday’s fixtures see Brackley host Oxford City, Hereford take on Leamington, Kidderminster travel to already relegated Rushall and Chester travel to Southport. Buxton v Chorley and King’s Lynn v Scunthorpe are the huge promotion race games.

Alfreton have had a steady season with the Reds 15th in the league on 54 points. With only pride to play for, Alfreton will know this is a chance to try new things ready for next season. The Reds are currently on a 4 match unbeaten run with draws against Marine and Rushall Olympic coming in between home wins against Leamington and Peterborough Sports.

Head to Head

There has been 43 meetings between the sides with The Nash winning on 11 occasions, The Reds winning 20 clashes and 12 draws.

The first 24 games were between 1981-1996 with not another game between the sides until the 2015-16 National League season, with The Nash facing Alfreton every season ever since and are only 1 of 2 teams who have always been in National League North with Curzon.

The first ever encounter was a FA Trophy game on 24 October 1981 which finished 1-1 at North Street Stadium. The replay was played a week later at National Park where the Reds were victorious 2-1.

Curzon Ashton

Curzon have had the joint most 2nd yellow card sendings off in the league (3)
Only Leamington and Radcliffe (4) and Kidderminster (3) have less points after falling behind than Scunthorpe and Curzon’s (6)
Only Scunthorpe (11) have conceded less first half goals than Curzon’s (13)

Alfreton

Top goalscorer Lewis Salmon has 12 league goals this season which is the 12th joint amount in the league with Curzon’s Jimmy Spencer and Stefan Mols.
George Cantrill has 17 yellow cards this season which is the most in the league – without receiving a red card.
Only Buxton (34) and South Shields (32) have more right footed goals than Alfreton. Contrast to scoring only 6 left footed goals which is only worsened by Farley Celtic (5).
The Reds have had the least amount of different goalscorers (12)

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