Quite fancied City's chances at Chesterfield. After the disappointment of the defeat to Rovers, City got back on track on Saturday and the victory against a Northampton team with only 4 defeats away all season was a good team performance, Brian 'Smile' Wilson scored a 2nd goal just after the break that was wrongly given offside - so the margin could have been bigger.
City are in a rich vein of form away from home at present, with victories over Brighton, Blackpool and Oldham in the last 4 aways. A defeat away at Scunny was the 4th.
Chesterfield meanwhile are in a bit of trouble at the moment and have lost 3 of their last 4 homes, including a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Bournemouth who had only won 1 away all season prior to that.
Roy McFarland after the defeat to Tranmere on Tuesday:
Were you disappointed with what was not happening up front?
We were quite ineffective, to be fair. Our firepower is struggling at the moment. The longer we keep playing like this, the more problems we think we're going to have, and that's what happened as the game went on.
At times tonight our football wasn't as good as it could be, and we let ourselves down, but the major thing is there wasn't much going on up front, in terms of creativity. We missed Derek; he gets criticised, but his energy and pressure would have helped us tonight.
Striker Jamie Ward who has scored 9 goals in 21 games fro Chesterfield this season picked up a hamstring injury a couple of weeks ago and could be out for 6 weeks.
The fans don't seem happy at all with what is going on, here are a collection of message titles from their forum:
Wonder what Roy's excuse is this week?
Go and Go Now
what can we do to get rid of mac?
So all primed for a nice away win - until you look at our previous record up there which is dire.
City have played Chesterfield in 9 of the last 10 seasons and have only won one of the 9 games away - back in 99-00.
Now its obviously a good time to play Chesterfield at home and City's away form is good but should i let this away voodoo put me off?
The other bet that looks pretty nailed on is the unders. City are looking very tight at the back with only 2 goals conceded in the last 6 games and 4 of those games were 1-0's.
The price is edging up but still a bit too tight at the current 1.68 on
betfair.
Just been on
betfair now and had a little nibble on City to win 2-0 - IMO the price of 12-1 was generous for that scoreline.
Interesting games elsewhere too.
Blackpool look pretty generously priced, and I've got a feeling Donny might just get something at Forest.
could be tempted to lay Accrington Stanley too.
THM