Travel sick Ebbed feat
FA TROPHY finalists Ebbsfleet United will take on York City tomorrow hoping to end a run of six games without a win on their travels.
Liam Daish's men have drawn three and lost three of their last half-dozen away Blue Square Premier fixtures and have also failed to keep a clean sheet in any of their last 12 league matches - a run that dates back to a 1-0 victory at Stafford Rangers on December 29.
Like their KitKat Crescent hosts, Ebbsfleet's play-off hopes have become nothing more than a remote mathematical possibility in recent weeks although they are one point and place closer to the top five than the Minstermen with a game in hand.
Defender Sacha Opinel will be suspended as Ebbsfleet look to narrow their 14-point gap having received his tenth yellow card of the season in Easter Monday's 2-1 home victory over ten-man Cambridge United.
Ebbsfleet struggled to defeat their high-flying visitors in that match despite Cambridge losing goalkeeper Danny Potter 26 minutes into the game and replacing him between the sticks with centre-back Mark Peters.
Chris McPhee scored the resulting penalty after Potter had hauled down John Akinde but Ebbsfleet could only beat Peters once more following Wayne Hatswell's equaliser.
Akinde, 18, netted in his third successive game to earn the home side maximum points and take his goal tally for the season into double figures.
The teenage striker still trails 11-goal ex-Notts County midfielder Stacy Long in the bid to become the club's leading marksman.
Akinde could also be joined in attack by fellow youngster Luke Moore in tomorrow's starting line-up.
Moore, 19, scored a hat-trick in this week's 4-1 Kent Senior Cup semi-final victory over Margate and is poised to replace George Purcell, who is without a goal since November.
Match facts
The Kent club, then Gravesend & Northfleet United, have made three previous visits. In 2004-05, the game ended goalless and the following season James Dudgeon scored in a 1-0 City win.
Last term the fixture was played on the corresponding weekend 12 months ago (31 March, 2007) and the visitors won 2-0 with Onome Sodje scoring one of their goals. City's line-up was: Evans, Purkiss (Greenwood), McGurk, Kovacs, James, Panther, Bishop, Bowey (Bell), Woolford, Donaldson, Brodie (Farrell).
It happened on March 29
1958: A 2-1 defeat at home to Wrexham left City 22nd in Division Three North. Peter Wragg was the scorer.
1975: City lost 2-1 at Old Trafford against Manchester United with Jimmy Seal, pictured, the scorer and they were 17th in Division Two (Championship). The crowd of 46,802 that day is the largest ever to watch City in a League game.
1985: Marco Gabbiadini made his debut when coming on as a substitute in a Division Three (League One) game at Bootham Crescent against Bolton Wanderers. City lost 3-0 and were in mid-table.
2003: Lee Nogan and Lee Bullock were the scorers in a 2-0 home win over Southend United which lifted City up to third in Division Three (League Two). The attendance was 4,312.
Compiled by David Batters
9:14am Friday 28th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: RodneyRowe, York on 12:00pm Fri 28 Mar 08
2003: Lee Nogan and Lee Bullock were the scorers in a 2-0 home win over Southend United which lifted City up to third in Division Three (League Two). The attendance was 4,312.
These days will come again.
Also has anyone seen Batchelors attempts to buy The Stags? Surely this is unacceptable.
2003: Lee Nogan and Lee Bullock were the scorers in a 2-0 home win over Southend United which lifted City up to third in Division Three (League Two). The attendance was 4,312.
These days will come again.
Also has anyone seen Batchelors attempts to buy The Stags? Surely this is unacceptable.
Posted by: Dinga, specsavers on 12:35pm Fri 28 Mar 08
[quote][bold]RodneyRowe[/bold] wrote:
2003: Lee Nogan and Lee Bullock were the scorers in a 2-0 home win over Southend United which lifted City up to third in Division Three (League Two). The attendance was 4,312. These days will come again. Also has anyone seen Batchelors attempts to buy The Stags? Surely this is unacceptable. [/quote] Yes maybe...in 2013 if our top brass at the club show this fantastic ambition - not sure how the glory days will come if we are settling for mid-table for the next 5 years. Maybe the 6th year we will win the league? Get real.
RodneyRowe wrote:
2003: Lee Nogan and Lee Bullock were the scorers in a 2-0 home win over Southend United which lifted City up to third in Division Three (League Two). The attendance was 4,312. These days will come again. Also has anyone seen Batchelors attempts to buy The Stags? Surely this is unacceptable.
Yes maybe...in 2013 if our top brass at the club show this fantastic ambition - not sure how the glory days will come if we are settling for mid-table for the next 5 years. Maybe the 6th year we will win the league? Get real.
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