Preview: Salford City vs. Barrow - prediction, team news, lineups

In-form Salford City volition person their sights acceptable connected securing a 5th triumph successful six matches crossed each competitions erstwhile they invited Barrow to the Peninsula Stadium.
 
While the distant broadside person not enjoyed arsenic creaseless a tally of results arsenic their hosts of late, they did drawback a four-game losing streak past clip retired and present spell successful hunt of consecutive wins.

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Having travel retired connected apical successful each of their past 4 location outings prior, Salford yet got successful connected the enactment distant from location arsenic they claimed a 2-0 triumph implicit Accrington Stanley astatine The Wham Stadium for their archetypal distant triumph since October.
 
Off the backmost of a comparatively uneventful archetypal half, Haji Mnoga broke the deadlock successful the aboriginal exchanges of the 2nd fractional earlier Cole Stockton continued his blistery streak successful beforehand of extremity to seal the woody 5 minutes from time.
 
Securing 4 victories from 5 matches is awesome whichever mode you look astatine it, but Karl Robinson's men person managed that portion keeping cleanable sheets successful each of their wins and person fto successful conscionable 1 goal, which came successful a 1-0 decision to Gillingham earlier this month.
 
As a effect of their caller resurgence, Salford person enactment their dilatory commencement to the play down them and are progressively closing successful connected the teams astir them successful the contention for a playoff spot from which they are presently separated by 1 constituent contempt sitting 11th successful the League Two table.
 
A accidental to triumph a 5th consecutive crippled successful beforehand of their fans present awaits the Ammies, who could perchance extremity the twelvemonth picking up 15 points from a imaginable 15 with a clash against bottom-place Morecambe to travel Thursday's affair.

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Winless successful the league since beating Cheltenham Town 2-1 connected October 5, Barrow secured a much-needed 3 points courtesy of Saturday's 2-0 regular triumph implicit Fleetwood Town astatine Holker Street.
 
Stephen Clemence's men took afloat vantage of a dilatory commencement from their opponents arsenic they struck doubly wrong the opening 10 minutes of the contention done Emile Acquah and Theo Vassell to instrumentality power of proceedings.
 
Despite enduring a unsmooth spot of precocious anterior to their triumph past clip out, Barrow are present a whopping 11 points wide of the relegation portion and conscionable 5 points shy of playoff contention, truthful a triumph against Salford could reignite their promotion chase.
 
Only Crewe and AFC Wimbledon person conceded less goals this word than the Bluebirds, who have, however, often been fto down by a deficiency of attacking firepower, with conscionable 20 goals scored successful arsenic galore matches.
 
Given their grounds against Thursday's opponents, the visitors could beryllium acceptable for disappointment connected the roadworthy erstwhile again, having failed to triumph immoderate and mislaid fractional of the astir caller 8 meetings dating backmost to 2020.

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Cole Stockton is simply a antheral connected occurrence close present with six goals scored successful his past six matches, and the guardant volition beryllium keen to present the goods for Salford successful this one.
 
Twenty-year-old Kelly N'Mai volition request to support his subject successful cheque present aft receiving his seventh caution of the play past clip retired successful conscionable 18 league appearances for the location side.
 
Off the backmost of spending six consecutive games connected the sidelines, Barrow's Sam Foley was handed a one-minute cameo against Fleetwood connected his instrumentality to enactment from a musculus injury.
 
Theo Vassell's onslaught successful the aforementioned crippled was his 4th league extremity of the campaign, which is simply a caller idiosyncratic champion for the defender successful his debut twelvemonth with the visitors.
 
Sean Etaluku remains retired of contention having not featured since mid-September, and the Englishman is mostly expected to spell connected indebtedness during the January transportation window.

We say: Salford City 2-1 Barrow

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