Tuesday, 13 April 2010

League One Fixtures 13th April Part 2

Huddersfield Town v Walsall
Huddersfield need to win to be sure of staying in the play-off places – and even that won’t be enough if they win 1-0 and Colchester United win 5-0. Walsall have won their last two games – but they weren’t exactly against two of the best sides in the League.
Rhys Weston will probably miss out again due to a hamstring injury. Mark Bradley will be on the bench.

Leyton Orient v Norwich City

Leyton Orient are just one point clear of safety. Norwich won’t win promotion this time but a win could put them twelve points ahead of Leeds.
Norwich have a number of injury problems so maybe Owain Tudur Jones and Josh Dawkin will get into the squad. Or is that just wishful thinking?

Milton Keynes Dons v Oldham Athletic
MK Dons are ten points from the play-offs with only fifteen points to play for – they could do it but they won’t. Oldham are five points from the relegation zone.
Jermaine Easter will be hoping for a start and a goal for MK Dons – he hasn’t scored in the last three games after a good, if not quite prolific spell of goals and assists.
Joe Jacobson probably won’t be fit for Oldham.

Southend United v Brentford

Southend remain in the bottom four, four points from safety so they’ll really want to win against a Brentford side who have beaten play-off hopefuls Huddersfield Town recently but also only managed to draw against strugglers Exeter City and Oldham Athletic.
Lewis Price will probably be on the bench for Brentford but he might not as Brentford have more than five loanees.

Tranmere Rovers v Wycombe Wanderers
Tranmere might not be deep in trouble but they’ve definitely got their feet wet. A win over Wycombe, who are in deep trouble – seven points adrift - would lift them out of the relegation zone.
Ash Taylor will probably play for Tranmere.

Yeovil Town v Millwall
Yeovil are seven points clear of trouble at the moment. Usually when that happens they start losing again, which would be great news for Millwall, who will be hoping to remain in second place. Only a win will guarantee it.
Gavin Williams has impressed for Yeovil since joining on loan from Bristol City. Maybe the red card wasn’t quite so impressive but the three goals and three assists have been very welcome. But Terry Skiverton likes to say Gavin has scored ‘four goals in three games’. Technically one was an own goal and it’s only three games if you ignore the three games when he was suspended but I like Skiverton’s thinking. So let’s call it four goals and two assists.
Gavin’s loan has now been extended until the end of the season and I’ll be very surprised if he doesn’t start. Either way he’s brilliant and Bristol City were mad to loan him out.
Shaun MacDonald is likely to be in the starting line-up too but Arron Davies could be out of the squad again as he is one of at least six loanees. Poor Arron, he was so happy when he managed to find a loophole in the League rules… but even the biggest loopholes have a catch. Nathan Jones could also be in Yeovil’s squad.
Millwall’s Jason Price is on loan at Carlisle United. They face Leeds United this week so Millwall will be hoping Jason can beat them and give them some breathing space. But Jason’s hamstring injury could prevent him from playing.

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