YORK City will be bidding to become the first team to score against Kidderminster in nine-and-a-half hours of football at KitKat Crescent tomorrow.

The Harriers have won five and drew one of their last six games, beating Wrexham 1-0, Woking 3-0, Lewes 1-0, Crawley 2-0 and Eastbourne 2-0 as well as drawing 0-0 at Salisbury.

England ‘C’ goalkeeper Adam Bartlett last conceded a goal on February 17 during a 3-1 home defeat to Cambridge but the Aggborough outfit’s recent run has lifted them to fifth place in the Blue Square Premier table.

Mark Yates’ men have won their last four matches fielding the same starting line-up and the Midlanders are unlikely to make any changes for their meeting with the Minstermen.

Midfielder Andy Ferrell is absent after undergoing knee surgery but Yates will otherwise have a full squad at his disposal.

Only Tuesday night’s visitors to KitKat Crescent, Kettering (28), and Cambridge (33) have conceded fewer goals than the 34 Kidderminster have shipped in the league.

The former Football League club also share the division’s lowest draw tally of five with Lewes and Eastbourne.

Kidderminster are stronger at home, however, with 14 victories in front of their own fans matched only by Oxford.

Away from Aggborough, meanwhile, a goals for column of 17 is the lowest outside the bottom six.

Despite finding the net 14 times this season, Matthew Barnes-Homer lives up to the second half of his double-barrelled surname and has not netted on the road since September.

Leading 15-goal marksman Justin Richards also only ended a four-month away drought in the win over Lewes.


Match facts

KIDDERMINSTER Harriers have made seven previous league visits – four of them in the Football League – winning just once 1-0 in 2001-02.

The clubs first met at York in the Conference in 2005-06 and the game was drawn 2-2.

The following campaign Clayton Donaldson scored the only goal of the game and, in the corresponding fixture last term, City came from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Onome Sodje and Craig Farrell on target.

The line-up on January 5, 2008 was: Evans, Parslow, Kelly (Craddock), McGurk, Purkiss, Elliott, Panther (Brayson), Wroe, Woolford, Sodje, Farrell (Brodie).

It happened on March 28

1953: Alf Patrick scored his last goal for the club in a 3-0 home win over Darlington (He netted a total of 117 goals in 241 senior appearances 1946-1953). Billy Fenton scored the other two goals against the Quakers.

1959: George Patterson and Charlie Twissell were the marksmen in a 2-2 draw at Shrewsbury Town and City were in the top four of Divison Four.

1998: Richard Cresswell scored in a 1-1 home draw against Blackpool in the Second Division (League One). City were in mid-table and the crowd was 3,650.

1999: A run of 11 games without a win ended with a 2-1 win at Lincoln City. Marc Williams scored both goals.

Compiled by David Batters