WINGATE AND FINCHLEY MATCH PREVIEW

Third placed Wingate and Finchley play fifth placed Enfield Town tomorrow at the Harry Abrahams Stadium in what is one of the games of the day in the Ryman Division One (North). It's a repeat of Town's famous play-off semi-final from last season where we came out winners 2-3.

RECORD COMPARISON 
                        OVERALL             HOME              AWAY 
POS  TEAM               P  W  D L   GD PTS  P  W  D L GD PTS  P  W D L  GD PTS
3.   Wingate & Finchley 28 16 5 7  +14 53   15 10 2 3 +9 32   13 6 3 4 + 5  21 
5.   Enfield Town       26 14 2 10 +21 44   13 5  1 7 +2 16   13 9 1 3 +19  28

CURRENT FORM (PAST SIX MATCHES)
                     OVERALL           HOME             AWAY 
                     P  W D L  GD PTS  P W D L  GD PTS  P W D L  GD PTS 
Wingate & Finchley   6  5 0 1 +10 15   6 3 1 2 +1  10   6 3 1 2 +5  10   
Enfield Town         6  4 0 2 +10 12   6 2 1 3  0  7    6 4 1 1 +13 13 

Wingate & Finchley lost at Great Wakering Rovers in midweek which put a stop to a five match winning run in the league. They have recently added Murat Karagul to their already impressive forward line, the 22 year old former Ware and Broxbourne Borough player has had a great start to his career for his new side as he has scored twice on his debut against Waltham Abbey (in only ten minutes on the pitch as he was an 80th minute substitute) and once in the midweek defeat at Burroughs Park where also came off the bench in the 65th minute. They also have the talented Leon Smith up front who has twelve league goals so far this season.

Their usual keeper Gavin King suffered a broken hand in the warm up of a recent Championship Manager cup match against the Met Police and is now out for the remainder of the season. In that game the club had no back-up keeper so defender/midfielder Amet Rifat put the gloves on and they won 5-2. It wasn't the first time Rifat had turned out between the sticks for his side as on the 25th January against Maldon and Tiptree Bobby Smith was red-carded on 55 minutes resulting in Rifat taking over where he performed heroics to keep a clean sheet.  Experienced Noel Imber has joined as cover for Bobby Smith who competes with Sam Bailey (who has played the last two games) for the keeper's jersey tomorrow.  

Despite playing some quality football and having one of the best squads in the league the crowds at Summers Lane have been on the low side with an average of just 106 in league fixtures so far this season. The top attendance has been against Harlow Town on the 13th November when 166 turned up which hopefully will be topped tomorrow with a healthy following making the short journey from Enfield.

Dave Norman's side will be looking at doing the double over Town after their 1-2 victory at Goldsdown Road earlier in the season. It's yet another tough game with the surface (which is always well prepared and presented - definitely the best in the league) likely to help Town as it'll be miles better than the pitch at Goldsdown Road!!   Games between the two local rival sides are always entertaining so why not pop down and watch some real football.

COME ON YOU TOWN!!