By Charlie Fytche
📅 Date: Saturday, 8 March
🕒 Kick-off: 3:00 PM
🏟 Venue: The Town Ground
🎟 Tickets: Adults £6 – Concessions £4 – U16s free.
🔍 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Heanor Town
Heanor Town have been enjoying a solid run of form despite falling short in the FA Vase quarter-finals at the weekend. With notable victories against second-placed Bourne Town and a draw against playoff contenders AFC Mansfield, the Lions have shown they can mix it with the best. Out of their nine games this year, they’ve lost just three – making them a tough test for the Poachers.
📊 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺
Boston Town:
✅ 01/2 | Boston Town 2-1 AFC Mansfield
✅ 08/2 | Boston Town 4-1 Melton Town
✅ 15/2 | Boston Town 5-0 Wisbech Town
✅ 18/2 | Newark & Sherwood 1-2 Boston Town
➖ 01/3 | Melton Town 1-1 Boston Town
Heanor Town:
❌ 01/3 | Andover New Street 1-0 Heanor Town
➖ 22/2 | Heanor Town 1-1 AFC Mansfield
✅ 19/2 | Hucknall Town 1-3 Heanor Town
❌ 15/2 | Skegness Town 4-1 Heanor Town
✅ 08/2 | Bourne Town 2-3 Heanor Town
⚖ 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱-𝘁𝗼-𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱:
✅ 10/08/24 | Boston Town 1-0 Heanor Town
❌ 27/01/24 | Boston Town 1-3 Heanor Town
➖ 18/11/23 | Heanor Town 0-0 Boston Town
✅ 04/03/23 | Boston Town 1-0 Heanor Town
✅ 03/12/22 | Heanor Town 2-4 Boston Town
The Poachers have enjoyed the upper hand in recent meetings, but as we all know, anything can happen in football. Can Boston Town continue their dominance?
🔥 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵
🔵 Boston Town:
⚽ Matt Cotton – New signing Cotton will be eager to make his highly anticipated debut. The forward will be hoping to create chances and maybe even find the back of the net!
⚡ Jordan Nuttell – Fresh off a standout display at Melton, the target man will be looking to dominate in the air once again and cause havoc for the Heanor defence.
🦁 Heanor Town:
🎯 Sacha Markelic – Heanor’s top scorer with 19 goals in 31 games, Markelic will be a key threat Boston must keep quiet.
🦁 John King – A vital player for Heanor with 38 appearances this season, King will be looking to make his mark going forward.
🗣 Manager’s thoughts – Chris Funnell
“We’re half way through a really tough four games and we’ve collected four points, both games being away and that’s no easy feat. 2 points-per-game is a good return and it’s why we’re top of the form chart in the last 6 matches and, why we’re top of the form chart since we’ve been together as a group. That’s over the course of 18 games now so it shows you what this group of players is about and what they can achieve.
Saturday we weren’t at our expected standards in the first half and deservedly trailed at the break, despite having some really good goal scoring opportunities in the first half. Second half was much more like us, we deservedly equalised through Macca’s thunderbolt and a draw was a fair result. On that note, the boys showed great character to come back and keep fighting, securing a vital point on the road because first half that outcome didn’t look likely.
It doesn’t get any easier though. Away at FA Vase Quarter-Finalists, Heanor Town. It’s not an easy place to go at the best of times and being a wounded animal, like they will be due to going out the Vase, it makes things even harder. We’ll welcome Matt Cotton into the fold this week, which is an added boost. However, we’ll be without Kallum Smith who has been ruled out through injury.
It’s another tough away game that we will need to be at our best to ensure have some points comes 5pm on Saturday.”
📢 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀
Another big challenge awaits Boston Town on the road – can the Poachers extend their unbeaten streak and bring home three valuable points?
Get behind the lads this Saturday! 🔵⚪
Boston Town FC 