Thirteenth placed Northwood are the visitors tonight to Haywood Way. The Woods have won five and lost five of their fourteen games and last weekend had an excellent 4-0 home victory against St Ives, their biggest win of the season to date. They have also progressed, like The Moles, to the 1st Qualifying Round of The Trophy, where they will entertain Guernsey at the weekend.
Nana ASAMOAH and Michael MURRAY lead the Northwood goal scoring stakes with 6 & 5 respectively. Last season The Woods finished Ninth after being in and around the play offs for most of the season and are always a tough team to face. This season they have lost a number of their squad from last term with Karl Oliyide, Nico Muir & Oliver Sprague all departing for pastures new.
In last year's autumn encounter's FC came away from Northwood with a 1-0 victory Northwood 0 Aylesbury FC 1 with a Ben Stevens winner and in the return encounter at Haywood Way Northwood had a 2-0 victory against a tired FC side Aylesbury FC 0 Northwood 2
Manager Steve Bateman, bar long term injury Sam Bateman and absent Adam Logie has a full side to choose from.
Expected Matchday Squad: James Weatherill, Ben Stevens, Rob Tomlin, Kyle Anthony, Connor Baker, Danny Murphy, Jeanmal Prosper, Sonny French, Ben Bateman, David Haule, Ricky Baker, Aston Goss, Brad Wadkins, Jamie Rudd, Gareth Price, Brian Haule, Sean Sonner, Lynton Goss,