YORK City will travel to a Stockport County side who haven’t conceded a single goal from open play during their last eight matches.

Reece Styche’s penalty for Alfreton has been the only entry on the opposition’s scoresheet in 12 hours and 18 minutes of football – a sequence that has established County’s defence as the best in National League North.

A total of 21 goals have been conceded by Jim Gannon’s men in 25 league matches, which is one fewer than table-topping Chorley, who lie seven points ahead of the third-placed Hatters.

The Edgeley Park outfit have also managed 14 clean sheets in all competitions this term.

Styche’s goal in a 1-1 draw on December 22, meanwhile, is the only blemish in a run of eight wins from the last nine games.

During that time, 23 goals have been plundered, whilst only two have been shipped.

Furthermore, Stockport will equal their best run of consecutive victories since they were a League Two outfit in 2007 if they can rack up a sixth successive triumph against the Minstermen.

The Greater Manchester club have won each of their last five contests without their defence being breached with Altrincham (2-0), Kidderminster (1-0), Altrincham again (1-0) and Bradford Park Avenue (3-0) all seen off before last weekend’s 5-0 FA Trophy thrashing of Truro City.

At home, County are unbeaten in ten games since a 2-0 loss to Boston on September 8 and will be bidding for a fifth straight success on their own soil.

Alfreton are the only other visiting team to have left the former Championship arena with a win this season, while league leaders Chorley have been sent packing 3-0 twice in the league and Trophy.

Along with their miserly back-line, Stockport are not too shabby at the other end of the pitch either.

Matty Warburton has scored 18 goals and netted four times against Truro to claim his second match ball of the season, having hit a hat-trick in the league defeat of Chorley.

His Truro feat meant he became the club’s first player since Adam Le Fondre – a dozen years ago – to score four times in a single match.

Warburton now has nine goals to his name during the team’s last nine fixtures, while 21-year-old ex-Bradford Park Avenue and Guiseley forward Frank Mulhern is also on double figures for the season with 12.

Stockport chief Gannon has a clean bill of health for the weekend and is expected to select the same starting XI for a third straight match.