Match preview by Leon Higgins

Following Saturday’s point in the North East Curzon head South this time in quest for more crucial points in the race for promotion. After wins for Brackley at home to Spennymoor, Scunthorpe at home to South Shields and Chester with an impressive 4-2 win at Scarborough, Craig Mahon’s side know wins are crucial to be able to keep up with the fellow promotion chasing sides.

Curzon sit 6th in the league table with 46 points from 25 games with the majority of sides, aside from Kidderminster Harriers and Brackley Town in the top 5 all playing 28 games.
Chester currently sit top of the table with 52 points, closely followed by Scunthorpe on 51, Kidderminster (50), Brackley (49) and Kings Lynn (48).

At the other end of the table, Oxford City currently sit in 18th, 5 points above the relegation zone following an excellent point at the MGroup Stadium against Kidderminster on Saturday. This season is a return to the National League regional system following relegation from the National League last season, the first time in the club’s history that they appeared in the fifth tier of English football and after sacking Sam Cox in Gameweek 8, Ross Jenkins returned to the club after leaving for Boreham Wood in 2022 and has since got a 1.60 points per game record with 6 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses to turn the Hoops fortunes round.

Prior to Saturday’s point against Kidderminster, Oxford have had mixed results in their last 5 games with wins against fellow relegation side Rushall Olympic combined with a loss at home to Brackley and a point against Chorley. Those league games come in the middle of a 3-0 FA Trophy success at Biggleswade Town and a 2-1 Oxfordshire Senior Cup win at Clanfield 85.

Head to Head

The only meeting to take place between the sides was at the Tameside stadium in August with the Nash running out 1-0 winners thanks to Isaac Sinclair’s goal.

Curzon Ashton

• Stefan Mols has 7 away goals this season, which is the joint amount in the league with Scunthorpe’s Callum Roberts and Chester’s Charlie Caton.
• Following Saturday’s clean sheet at Darlington, Bobby Jones now has 14 clean sheets in the National League North, only 2 behind Scunthorpe’s Ross Fitzsimons.

Oxford City

• Oxford posses the 7th best trio in the league scoring 19 goals with Corie Andrews (8), Zac McEachran (6) and Josh Parker (5).
• Oxford have gained 12 points from 18 losing positions this season, the 3rd most in the league behind Chester (15) and Spennymoor (13).
• The Hoops have scored the most amount of goals after 90 minutes (5) this season.
• Oxford have 3 senior International players in their ranks, the most in the league with both Jalen Jones (18) and Kai McKenzie Lyle (13) representing Guyana and Andre Burley (27) representing St Kitts and Nevis. Josh Parker has also represented Antigua and Barbuda 44 times.

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