Youpies.co.uk gears up for County's next match, against Local rivals Mansfield Town on Saturday 29th March 2008 at Meadow Lane. This match is one that County cannot afford lose with the Stags just below the magpies in the table this is a true 6 pointer.

Statistics

Notts go into this fixture with 40 points, lying in a lowly 22nd place, having won only 8 of 39 games, drawing 16 and loosing 15 times this season. Notts are just 7 points from safety and have played more games than the teams below them but do have a game in hand over the 3 teams above them. Mansfield, who have just changed the management at Field Mill; sit in 23rd position in the table. They have won 9 drew 6 and lost 23 of their 38 games so far this season Mansfield have knocked up 33 points.

Other statistics for this match are as follows

Notts have a scoring rate of 113 minutes, indicating they may not score at the weekend or any other, however Mansfield score on average every 86 minutes. Notts let a goal in every 78 minutes whilst Mansfield let a goal in every 58 minutes. But what are statistics in football?

 

Current Form Last 6 matches

Mansfield in their last 6 matches have won 1, drawn 1 and lost 4 and are currently unbeaten in 0,

Sat 01 Mar	Wrexham	A	L2	D 1-1
Sat 08 Mar	Rochdale	H	L2	L 0-4
Tue 11 Mar	Hereford United	H	L2	L 0-1
Sat 15 Mar	Bradford City	A	L2	W 2-1
Sat 22 Mar	Grimsby Town	H	L2	L 1-2
Mon 24 Mar	Bury	A	L2	L 0-2

 

Notts in their last 6 matches have won 1, drawn 4 and lost 1 and are currently unbeaten in 3,

Sat 01 Mar	Macclesfield Town	A	L2	D 1-1
Sat 08 Mar	Barnet	H	L2	D 0-0
Tue 11 Mar	Lincoln City	H	L2	L 0-1
Sat 15 Mar	Peterborough United	A	L2	D 0-0
Sat 22 Mar	Rochdale	H	L2	W 1-0
Mon 24 Mar	Shrewsbury	A	L2	D 0-0

Meetings

The most recent meeting was this season away to Mansfield with Notts on the wrong side of a 2-0 score line in Charlies first match in charge of the magpies. Previously the last time was in the 2006/2007 season; when the two teams battled out a 0-0 draw at Meadow Lane and a 2-2 draw at Field Mill.

Other Meetings

2007/2008	Sat 20 Oct	Mansfield Town	2 - 0	Notts County	L2
2006/2007	Sat 10 Mar	Notts County	0 - 0	Mansfield Town	L2
2006/2007	Sat 07 Oct	Mansfield Town	2 - 2	Notts County	L2
2005/2006	Sat 04 Mar	Notts County	2 - 2	Mansfield Town	L2
2005/2006	Mon 29 Aug	Mansfield Town	2 - 3	Notts County	L2
2004/2005	Sat 05 Feb	Notts County	0 - 1	Mansfield Town	L2
2004/2005	Sat 16 Oct	Mansfield Town	3 - 1	Notts County	L2
2002/2003	Sat 08 Feb	Mansfield Town	3 - 2	Notts County	Division 2
2002/2003	Sat 09 Nov	Notts County	2 - 2	Mansfield Town	Division 2

 

Key Men

With 11 goals so far this season, Richard Butcher has emerged as Notts main threat this season. The ex-Peterborough man does not light the game up but he finds those spaces around the area and with 11 goals so far he is a midfield player with an eye for goal. Mansfield will have to be wary of Butcher’s runs into the area because he as the ability to score goals around the edge of the area even though he`s not scored since 1st March away at Macclesfield he is still the magpies main threat.

Mansfield`s main threat will come from striker Michael Boulding who has been in good form lately, contributing 21 goals in total this season. The Notts defence will have to keep an eye on the Mansfield striker around the area because he also looks shooting at goal with an amazing 130 plus shots on or off target this season in the league.

Prediction

We at www.youpies.co.uk think this will be a close game. Notts need to win this game so we think the score will be

 

Notts County 2-1 Mansfield Town
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