FORGET Boreham Wood, Boring Wood might be a more accurate description of York City’s National League hosts’ tomorrow afternoon.

The Hertfordshire side’s 4,500-capacity Meadow Park stadium has witnessed just 21 league goals this season, which is four fewer than any other ground in English football’s top five divisions.

Middlesbrough have the next lowest tally but, with the Premier League strugglers having played two fewer league games in front of their own fans, the Riverside has witnessed an average of 1.9 goals a fixture, compared to Boreham Wood’s 1.4.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Luke Garrard’s men have the division’s best defensive record at home, having shipped just nine goals in 15 league games.

Wood have also managed nine clean sheets on their own soil in all competitions this term and Sky Bet League Two Notts County are the only visiting side to score more than once in 2016/17, during a 2-2 FA Cup first-round draw in November.

The last National League club to manage that feat was Southport with a 2-0 victory back in April, when current City left-back Alex Whittle and former striker Andy Bishop both played for the opposition.

But 14th-placed Boreham Wood’s defensive record, home and away, also remains the second-best behind promotion-chasing Tranmere.

It is at the other end of the pitch where the 2015 Conference South play-off winners have found life difficult.

A return of 12 home league goals is the second-fewest in the division, ahead of bottom-of-the-table Ferriby, who are on eight.

Only the Minstermen (28) and Ferriby (18), meanwhile, have lower overall goals-scored columns than Boreham Wood, who have netted 31 times.

Ex-Bishop’s Stortford and Hemel Hempstead striker Morgan Ferrier is the club’s leading marksman on 12 goals, despite only starting 20 games.

The 22-year-old attacker has not scored a league goal at home for five months either, since hitting the target in a 2-0 triumph over Torquay on September 17.

Garrard’s team have done well to keep things tight at the back during the absence of crocked defensive trio David Stephens, Joe Devera and Danny Woodards.

Former City left-back Femi Ilesanmi has been a mainstay, though, starting 34 games since making his debut for Wood as a 76th-minute substitute in August’s 1-1 draw between the two teams at Bootham Crescent.

On-loan midfielder Anthony Jeffrey, meanwhile, will return to this weekend’s starting line-up, having been refused permission to play against parent club Forest Green during last weekend’s 2-0 away defeat.

That loss meant tomorrow’s hosts have won just one of their last ten league games – a 1-0 triumph at Torquay on January 7 – taking six points from a possible 30 in that time.

They go into their latest fixture 11 points adrift of the play-off positions, but 12 clear of the relegation zone

Boreham Wood (probable): Smith, Nunn, Paine, Goodliffe, Ilesanmi, Davis, Reason, Jeffrey, Andrade, Ferrier, Balanta.