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Newman will name an unchanged side from the one that demolished Bury seven days ago, although striker Graeme Jones is playing his last match before serving a one-match suspension, having notched up his fifth booking of the season at Gigg Lane.
David McSweeney has now returned to full time training, but he's not ready to be included in the squad and should play for the reserves against Brentford on Wednesday night.
Of course York will once again include twice Southed player player Lee Nogan in their ranks, and all United supporters know that Nogan always seens to score against the Shrimpers, but if the last home match, a 1-0 win over Exeter City, is anything to go by then he'll hardly have a sniff of goal. Coincidently York also beat Exeter 1-0 down in Devon last weekend.
York, who took the unique move of changing their name from 'Football Club' to 'Soccer Club' in the summer did the double over the Blues last season. United crashing to a desperately poor 1-0 defeat at Roots Hall in February after Mark Rawle's early goal at Bootham Crescent in October didn't prove to be enough to prevent Southend from slipping to defeat.
Southen's last victory against York came in October 2000, Trevor Fitzpatrick netting the only goal of the game in what was David Webb's first home match of his third managerial spell at Roots Hall.
Let's hope United can clock up another victory ojn Saturday to make it three wins on the trot and send the Shrimpers soaring into the play-offs.
Last Matches:-
Bury 1 (Nelson 3) Southend United 3 (Jones 67, Jenkins 80, Bramble 85), Line-up - Flahavan, Broad, Cort, Whelan, Beard, Maher, Selley, Smith (Thurgood 88), Jenkins (Searle 90), Bramble, Jones (Belgrave 87). Unused - Steven Clark, Gay.
Exeter City 0 York City 1 (Cook 43), Line-up - Fettis, Edmondson, Hobson, Smith, Potter, Bullock, Blackstone, Brass, Cook (Wood 84), Nogan (Parkin 71), Duffield (Mazzima 89). Unused - Okoli, Howarth.
LAST FIVE MEETINGS:-
9th Feb, 2002 - Southend United 0 York City 1 - Division Three
20th Oct, 2001 - York City 2 Southend United 1 (Rawle) - Division Three
13th March, 2001 - York City 1 Southend United 0 - Division Three
14th October, 2000 - Southend United 1 (Fitzpatrick) York City 0 - Division Three
1st April, 2000 - Southend United 0 York City 0 - Division Three
SOUTHEND (from):- Darryl Flahavan, Daniel Gay, Mark Beard, Neil Jenkins, Damon Searle, Leon Cort, Stephen Broad, Tom Jordan, Phil Whelan, Kevin Maher, Jay Smith, Stuart Thurgood, Ian Selley, Steven Clark, Tesfaye Bramble, Graeme Jones, Barrington Belgrave.
Mark Wallis
www.thelittlegazette.com
HEAD-TO-HEAD SOUTHEND UNITED v YORK CITY
Stats by www.soccer-stats.co.uk
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