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FC Halifax Town v Mossley: Revenge on the agenda
FC Halifax Town will go second in Unibond One North tonight (7.45) if they can avenge their most embarrassing 90 minutes of the campaign.
Town host Mossley, the last side to beat them in the league when they won 3-1 at Seel Park almost two months ago in a game that was a real low in the new club's short history.
Since then the Shaymen have won six of their seven league games, taking 19 points from a possible 21.
And manager Jim Vince is keen to extend that run.
"I am really hungry for tonight's game," he said. "Out of all the games we have played so far this is the one I am relishing. It's massive.
"I don't like it when teams outplay us and I take it personally. The performance put a question mark on my capability.
"I want this game because the match at Mossley was embarrassing.
"I always look back at games and think what we could have done differently. And we could have showed up that night. That would have been a start.
"They did to us what I want us to do to other teams."
Town will be without striker Colin Daniel who has returned to League One Crewe Alexandra after a month on loan at the Shay.
That is likely to allow 11-goal leading scorer Ashley Stott, a substitute in Saturday's 1-0 win at Curzon Ashton, to return to the starting line-up alongside Paul Gedman.
The duo scored eight goals between them in the first three matches when Gedman played for Town on loan from Droylsden in September.
Tonight, he plays his first home game since becoming a permanent Shayman last week and he will certainly have benefited from the run out at the Tameside Stadium at the weekend.
"Paul is a little bit short of match fitness, we know that," said Vince. "But he will give 100 per cent.
"It was his first game on Saturday and he is a strong player for us. Ashley was disappointed not to have started on Saturday but it was right to rest him."
Cavell Coo is a doubt with a strain he picked up against Curzon Ashton but Nigel Jemson will be available after missing the trip to Manchester with a pre-arranged engagement.
Stott is one of only four players - Jon Kennedy, Lincoln Adams and Junior Brown are the others - from the first game against Mossley likely to feature tonight.
FC Halifax Town (from): Kennedy, Coo, Brown, Barras, Adams, Meadowcroft, Allen, Baker, Phelan, Stott, Gedman, Hinsley, King, Ellis, Jemson, Smith, Ellison.
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