DPL v Salford City

Salford have only lost once away from home, but have only won once. At home they have never drawn - L4 and W4. (At Salford we put 2 past them in the League Cup with no reply too.) So it’s rather odd! You might say they were inconsistent, but then that’s not true of their away form.

They have Jon Taylor (10 appearances and 1 goal) and Hakeem Adelukan (4 and 2 goals) on their books, the former having remained fit!! But HA has not been in the team for a while, so presumably injured. JT is usually subbed or on the bench and HA wound up there seemingly as a last resort when he failed to get the ambitious move and reward that he was hoping for when he turned down what was assumed to be at least a 2-year offer from Rovers.

So, coming back to expectations, we might assume that they have a good defensive plan for away games, so it could be an afternoon of hard toil.

There has been more consistency about Rovers in recent matches, they’ve kept up the pressure for 90 minutes in the last 3 matches and it’s brought rewards, so we shall hope that there is no dip on Saturday.

If we are to contend for automatic promotion this is a game to be won and perhaps we shall hope that Adelukan does not turn out for the opposition. Whether he does somehow recover his fitness or not I’m going for 2-0 (Sharp/Ironside).