Lincoln city will take on Alfreton Town at Sincil bank this Saturday the 10th March. Both teams are fighting to stay above the relegation places, there are only two places and just one point separating the two sides before this game. Alfreton do have a game in hand over the Imps though, which makes it even more imperative that we go away with all three points to aid our cause.
Alfreton come into this game on the back of a massive 6-1 home victory over fellow struggler's Stockport County. Alfretons top scorer Nathan Jarman bagged himself a hat trick on Tuesday night and now has 15 goals for the season to date. Alfreton are no one man side either, with both Arnold and Clayton having 8 goals a piece. All three of these players have scored far more then any Lincoln player who will take to the pitch this weekend.
One bit of consolation for the Imps is that Alfreton are less then half as prolific on their travels as they have been at the Impact Arena this season, only scoring 15 goals on their travels compared to 32 at home. Whilst the Imps aren't great at home we don't let too many in only 21 goals conceded so we can only hope that Alfreton revert to their normal away form and struggle to get more then one goal.
The imps should have no further Injury worries from the previous game With Jamie Taylor again improving his fitness and perhaps in which a chance of starting the game following two consecutive substitute outings. There has been talk in the press this week that Holdsworth is unhappy with the defence and will look at changing the back line, but for me, there is really little improvement to be found on the bench to bring in to bolster the back line. Karlton Watson was dreadful in his last appearance and there appears to be little time for Holdsworth to make yet another signing before the game tomorrow. This brings me to another worry that Holdsworth doesn't have the ability to motivate or improve the players currently at his disposal and as a result looks to signing new players as the only way to improve performances instead of being able to work with what he has.
This game really worries me, like so many other Imps. I feel that if we lose this game then we will be relying on the other teams below us to slip up if we are going to stay up this season. we don't seem capable at the moment of stringing a performance together. Alfreton won easily midweek against a side just above us in the table, they will think that we are there for the taking.
As a result I think we will draw 2-2, once again I have zero confidence in our ability to keep a clean sheet. I am being optimistic in predicting a draw, I don't want to even think about leaving Sincil Bank at 4:45 on Saturday after watching another home defeat.....It just can't happen if we want to stay up!
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