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Team news: Witton make three changes to the starting line-up beaten at Hyde United on Saturday. Loan signing from Preston North End, Teddy Mfuni makes his debut in place of the injured Rob Hopley, whilst Joe Mwasile & Will Jones both start in place of Isaac Baldwin who drops to the bench and Jesse Dowling who has departed for Widnes. Joshua Paterson comes into the squad whilst Greg Hall & Cesaire Lingouba are still suspended.
Dermot Mee, Ben Pleavin, Danny McKenna, Josh Wardle, Teddy Mfuni, James Lawrie, Joe Mwasile, Nathan Okome, Callum Saunders, Will Jones, James Foley.
Subs: Jawad Jebrin, Isaac Baldwin, Harry Bower, Joshua Paterson, Raajan Gill.
Chance for Stafford on 14 minutes as a near post header is goal-bound but deflects off Will Jones and out for a corner.
Yellow card:
Witton’s Josh Wardle on 25 minutes for a foul on Kaiman Anderson.
Chance for the Albion on 34 minutes as Joe Mwasile gets a shot away from 25 yards which is well saved by Mateusz Hewelt in the Rangers goal.
Yellow card:
Stafford Rangers James O’Neil on 34 minutes.
Chance for Stafford on 43 minutes as Josh Endall has an effort in the box but goes just wide of the goal.
Half Time Score from The U Lock It Stadium:
Witton Albion 0 Stafford Rangers 0.
Two fairly evenly matched teams so far with chances at a premium, as is reflected by the HT scoreline.
Attendance: 291.
Tre Pemberton fires over the bar for the visitors on 50 minutes after a great run forward past a couple of defenders.
James Foley with a powerful shot from 25 yards on 52 minutes which is well saved by Mateusz Hewelt in the Rangers goal.
Chance for Callum Saunders on 56 minutes but it’s a very narrow angle and he can’t direct his shot on target.
Great ball in by James Lawrie on 70 minutes and debutant Teddy Mfuni gets on the end of it but can’t control his header and it goes over.
Yellow card:
Stafford Rangers Tom Tonks on 72 minutes.
GOAL
Latest Score from The U Lock It Stadium:
Witton Albion 0 Stafford Rangers 1.
Substitute Jake Charles gives Stafford the lead on 78 minutes scrambling the ball home from close-range.
Witton Substitution:
Joe Mwasile replaced by Jawad Jebrin on 82 minutes.
Witton Substitution:
Danny McKenna replaced by Isaac Baldwin on 86 minutes.
Great chance for Albion debutant Teddy Mfuni on 87 minutes but he heads over with the Stafford keeper Mateusz Hewelt to beat.
Full Time Score from The U Lock It Stadium:
Witton Albion 0 Stafford Rangers 1.
Beaten but not disgraced.
Decidedly scruffy winning goal for Stafford but unfortunately five defeats on the bounce for Witton in March tells its own story.
The story of our season unfortunately.
Since we beat Whitby Town away on 9th October, we’ve won only four out of 23 games in all competitions and not won at home for 12 games since we beat Atherton Collieries. Nothing much goes for you when you’re down at the bottom and struggling.
Stood toe to toe with a team in 8th place not a classic but unarguably deserved a point. Should it have been a foul on the young debutant leading up to the goal? YES in my opinion but when your luck is out you don’t get those decisions.
A decent battling performance plenty of effort but precious few chances, and 11 men back defending when 1-0 down this mgr never learns does he.
Have to take issue with a certain element! I thought we were a lot brighter (not only the strip ), everyone put a shift in.
I don’t think we were ultra-defensive, as suggested! At last our ‘‘Pogba’’ got forward, never seen him run so much! If we had played like that all season, we would not be where we are.
Fans moan about Greg, so Carl has got a real good 'un albeit on loan, likewise with the young centre - back, so he is trying to get players. Even Ryan Lowe was there keeping tabs on his young centre-back, so he must rate him to keep an eye on his progress!
To sum up, we at least deserved a point. Their players could not believe the standard of our lads! Amen.
Swampy, a good post & we were certainly worth a point. The young keeper made 1 mistake and on other social media gets crucified by so called fans, the young centre half did well and I’m sure they will both do well tomorrow v Buxton.
Carl is always trying to get better players but so is everyone else. Positivity needed this next month not negativity!