BRACKLEY Town will arrive at York City as the only National League North team without a clean sheet on their travels this season.

The Northamptonshire outfit, who boasted the division’s meanest defence last term with just 37 goals conceded in 42 games, have not managed a shut-out in 11 away games during 2018/19 and that sequence stretches to a dozen contests if May’s 3-0 play-off final against Harrogate is taken into account.

Brackley will also take on the Minstermen having failed to keep any team off the scoresheet in their last nine league fixtures home and away.

Kevin Wilkin’s men have not taken maximum points in any of their last five attempts either, with a hat-trick of consecutive draws against Chester (2-2), Blyth (1-1) and Stockport (1-1), having been followed by back-to-back defeats at the hands of Altrincham (1-2) and Kidderminster (0-2).

During that sequence, however, the Saints have enjoyed FA Trophy home triumphs over Nuneaton (3-0) and Hayes & Yeading (4-2).

Ex-City defender Luke Graham – a key member in Martin Foyle’s 2009/10 Conference play-off final runners-up team – had been a cornerstone of Brackley’s uncompromising back-line during the last three seasons, but he moved on to Kettering in October, having been an unused substitute during the last meeting with his former club at St James Park, which ended in a 0-0 draw over the August bank holiday.

At the other end of the pitch, meanwhile, another ex-Minsterman is expected to be in the line up tomorrow.

Attacker Daniel Nti, who only managed one goal in 19 outings for City during the 2016/17 campaign, has netted just twice in 21 appearances for Brackley since a summer switch from Nuneaton.

The second of those goals came in last weekend’s Trophy triumph over Hayes, though, with Nti hoping to make a third straight starting XI for the first time in Brackley colours, having kicked off just five matches.

Lee Ndlovu is the visitors’ leading marksman this season with 11 goals, but only three of the ex-Ilkeston and Grantham striker’s efforts have come on the team’s travels.

Free-scoring midfielder James Armson, meanwhile, heads the side’s league scoring charts on nine.

He has not featured in the last three games due to injury but has a chance of being fit to face City.

Brackley head into the match 11th in the table and three points outside the play-off positions.