Youpies.co.uk gears up for County's next match, against Morecambe FC.
Statistics
Notts go into this fixture with 26 points, lying in a lowly 18th place, having won only 6 of 26 games, drawing 8 and loosing 12 times this season. However, Morecambe have made a lively start and sit 8th in the table only 2 points off a play-off place. They have won 12 drew 6 and lost 9 of their 27 games this season, Chester have knocked up 42 points.
The most recent meeting was 1st September 2007; when the two teams played out a 1-1 at Meadow Lane with Richard Butcher getting a late goal for the magpies.
All other statistics are on Morecambe’s side. Notts have a scoring rate of 98 minutes, indicating they may not score at the weekend, however most alarmingly Morecambe score on average every 68 minutes. The two teams are close on conceding goals. Notts every 65 minutes, Morecambe every 69 minutes. But what are statistics in football?
Key Men
The key man for Notts has to be Kevin Pilkington. He’s been in fantastic form so far this season and produced one of his best saves ever in the last game against Chester. It was Kevin that kept Notts in the game at Meadow Lane earlier this season with some excellent goalkeeping.
Morecambe striker Mathew Blinkhorn has been in good form for Morecambe so far, contributing 6 goals this season. He is not the clubs top scorer but all his 6 goals have come since 22nd December 2007 so he’s in hot form at the moment. The Notts defence will have to keep an eye on him to stop him adding to this total.
Prediction
We at www.youpies.co.uk think this will be a close game. We think this will be a game that will be very nervy for Notts at the wrong end of the table and they will not want to lose. It will also be a game that Morecambe are expected to win with Notts being at the wrong end of the table so the pressure will be on the home side. So we think the score will be
Morecambe 1-1 Notts County
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