Match Preview: Hucknall Town (a)

Matt Hill and Jack Edwards will both make their 50th appearances for Hinckley AFC if they play in tomorrow’s visit to Hucknall Town.

The pair will both bring up their centuries for the club in the visit to Watnall Road if they feature in the Division One match.

And it will be a particular achievement for Hill, who will reach the milestone without missing a single minute of competitive football since his debut. A clean sheet would also take him to 20 shut-outs for Hinckley.

Edwards has 13 goals in his 49 matches for the club thus far, 12 coming this season.

The game will see two sides competing towards the top end of the table, with Hinckley in second visiting a Hucknall side in fifth and pushing for the final play-off spot.

Manager Courtney Belford says it’ll be a good game between two teams vying for promotion. He said: “They did a job on us at Heather. We’ve got to be better defending our box, they do load it in and have two good strikers who are willing to put their bodies around and are very clinical.

“They score a lot of goals but we’ve got to try and go there and win.”

The Yellows jumped back up to fifth with a 2-1 win at Saffron Dynamo on Wednesday night. The former Nottingham Forest forward Craig Westcarr, the league’s joint second top scorer, helped them come from behind in that one as they bounced back from a heavy defeat to their play-off rivals Aylestone Park.

Hucknall sit fifth with 84 points from their 40 games – in the final play-off spot and two ahead of Aylestone heading into the final four games.

Hinckley, meanwhile, will look to bounce back from defeat to leaders Kimberley Miners Welfare last time out and find the sort of form that saw them put eight past West Bridgford in the previous visit to Nottinghamshire.

Hucknall play at Watnall Road, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, NG15 6EY.

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