Maidenhead United v FC Halifax Town LIVE

Town team

Johnson, Clarke, Stott, Hunter, Golden, Keane, Gilmour, Senior, Wright, Dieseruvwe, Alli

Subs: Debrah, Slew, Minihan, Harker, Capello, Arthur, O'Rourke

Maidenhead: Dag & Red (FAT a) W 2-0, Altrincham (a) L 3-2, York (a) W 2-1, Bromley (a) D 1-1, Southend (h) L 2-1

Halifax: Scunthorpe (h) L 1-0, Notts County (a) L 1-0, Harrow Borough (FAT a) D 2-2 (won 6-5 on penalties), Oldham (a) W 1-0, Barnet (h) L 3-1

Halifax have only scored more than once in three away games this season.

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Looks like Capello has made the trip down too. He could start but would have thought he’d be on the bench. I think Slew is out there too but my eyesight is not the best so don’t take my word on that

Looks like Sam Minihan is among the travelling party. Obviously more subs needed for the FAT so perhaps not a shock if Town are struggling to fill the full quota on the bench. Be surprised if he goes straight into the starting 11 though. Another option to replace A Senior would be moving Alli back to LWB, which he played at Harrow, and putting Golden RWB, and maybe starting O’Rourke. Be a bit surprised at that though given how well Alli’s played in the last two

No Adam Senior or Louis White today so there will be at least one change to the starting 11 and two to the squad. Chris Millington did suggest there would definitely be another change to the side as well, but gave no further details, so whether that was an injury picked up against Barnet, we’ll see. Be interesting to see if Tylor Golden goes back over to right wing back and maybe Jack Senior pushes up to left wing back in A Senior’s absence, with a centre-back coming into the back three? That would be my guess. Team news at 2pm

A big game for both teams today, both struggling to make any impression in the league so plenty rests on today’s result for them. Win and it keeps up interest in their flagging seasons, lose and their campaigns are in severe danger of petering out long before they end. Also the start of a tiring looking week for Town with three long, tough away games - Maidenhead today, Southend on Tuesday and Boreham Wood next Saturday. Vital they get it off to a good start with a win today but they’ll need to play a lot better than they did in the last round at Harrow. There are positives to take from the last two matches but they cannot afford to give away such sloppy goals at set-pieces this afternoon or that could be their downfall.