Sponsored by
Match preview: FC Halifax Town v Skelmersdale Utd
HAS FC Halifax Town's season finally picked up a bit of momentum? They will certainly be hoping so after an astonishing final five or six minutes at Garforth on Tuesday night.
Despite dominating, the Shaymen found themselves two goals down and heading for a Unibond Division One North cul-de-sac.
By the time the final whistle blew, thanks to goals from Junior Brown and Kris King, they had secured a point from a 2-2 draw.
And goalscorer Brown admitted after the game that it was a draw that felt like a win given the nature of the remarkable fightback.
The key now will be to take the feelgood factor gained in the closing stages at the Genix Healthcare Stadium into tomorrow's Shay clash with Skelmersdale - their first home league game since the 7-1 demolition of rock bottom Salford City.
Skem will be a considerable tougher prospect than City who failed to get out of the blocks and allowed Town to race into a two goal lead inside three minutes.
The Merseyside outfit have lost just one - a surprise 4-1 reverse at struggling Chorley.
And they score plenty of goals with 16 from their seven matches - three more than the Shaymen from one game fewer.
Town have been truly infuriating this season, showing glimpses of what a more than capable squad can do but mixing that with some shoddy defending and a failure to really press home territorial and possession advantages with goals.
Skem are just a couple of points outside the play-off zone with up to three games in hand on the teams above them.
And last weekend when Town were crashing out of the FA Trophy they were going through at the expense of Shepshed Dynamo.
The good thing for Halifax is that they have yet to put together a full 90 minute performance in the league this season.
But they are still close enough to the top five to be able to get into contention with a good run.
There would be no better place to start than at the Shay tomorrow.
Email to a friend
Print this page- A58 crash UPDATE: road now re-open after man hit by car earlier this morning
- Crash on the A58 in Halifax this morning UPDATE: Man in hospital with several broken bones
- Taxi worker dies aged 35 after finishing his shift
- Man suffers serious injuries in accident on M62
- How the new Halifax Central Library will look
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Halifax
Saturday 11 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: -1 C to 0 C
Wind Speed: 8 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 2 C to 4 C
Wind Speed: 9 mph
Wind direction: North west
