Match Preview by Leon Higgins

Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Kidderminster was Curzon’s second defeat at the Tameside Stadium this campaign. Mark Bradshaw’s side face another play off rival from last season in Chorley who are also expected to be challengers at the top end of the league. After six games The Nash currently sit 17th with 6 points.

With a number of players injured and the suspension of Jack Stafford, Nash fans can expect to see a new face in the squad tomorrow night…

Chorley come into this game off the back of a 1-0 defeat at Leamington. Saturday’s defeat is the only defeat of the season for The Magpies so far having claimed four victories and a draw against Scarborough Athletic. Chorley sit third in the league, three points off the unbeaten South Shields at the top of the table. Chorley have had a player in ‘Team Of The Week’ in most game weeks this season with GW6 the only time a player hasn’t featured. Jack Sampson, Adam Henley, Adam Blakeman and Sam Bird have featured in team of the week this season. Sampson appeared in GW1 and GW4 while Henley (GW2), Blakeman (GW3) and Sam Bird in GW5.

Head to Head:

There has been 37 previous meetings between the sides, The Nash have claimed victory 13 times while The Magpies have the better record with 16 wins, there has also been 8 draws between the sides.

The first ever meeting between the sides was in The Cheshire league on the 15th Nov 1979 while in the last meeting in March it was a 3-0 win for Curzon at the Tameside Stadium.

Management Preview:

Looking ahead to tomorrow nigh’t fixture, Head Coach Mark Bradshaw commented:

Chorley is a team that has been up there for several years and challenges year in year out, knows the qualities they have and everyone in the league knows where their strengths are and it’s about our lads and their character to deal with their strengths and turn them half chances (today) into full chances and get on the end of them and put them away.

Every game we go into we should be looking forward to and knowing we can compete with anybody and everybody at the moment if we give the type of work rate and effort that we have done today and at Buxton.

They are definitely learning as we go and we are getting a little bit more out of them each time.

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