English Non-League
2012-05-07 - Mansfield Town vs York City
A Sports Betting Pick by ArmchairPunter
Football – England – Blue Square Premier
Play Off Semi Final 2nd Leg
Monday 7th May 2012 – Kickoff: 1400hrs
(First leg drawn 1-1)
Mansfield Town are in the box seat as they prepare for the visit of play-off rivals York City in the second leg at their One Call Stadium on Monday afternoon.
Mansfield Town
Despite the scores being level at the halfway stage of this play-off, Mansfield will be confident of progressing through to the final as they look for a fifth successive home win.
Indeed, The Stags are unbeaten at home in their last thirteen matches, winning ten of those while the other three were draws. Incidentally, the draws were against Gateshead, champions Fleetwood Town and tonight’s opponents, York City.
Mansfield’s home record in the regular season finished up on 14-6-3 50/25, and they were joint highest goalscorers at home in the BSP with Fleetwood Town. The previous four wins consisted of 12 goals for and just 1 goal against as they saw off poor Barrow 7-0, Ebbsfleet United 1-0, Stockport County 2-1 and play-off rivals Wrexham 2-0.
Mansfield also possess some awesome firepower up front with forward Green (28 goals, 9 assists), Briscoe (11 goals, 4 assists), Dyer (9 goals) and Meikle (7 goals), along with creativity from O’Neill (12 assists).
York City
York City will be aiming for a smash-and-grab victory when they travel to Mansfield on Tuesday, but the odds are beginning to stack against them after they were held to a 1-1 draw in the first leg. However, the Minstermen have won six from their last seven on the road and finished up with a good away record of 12-8-3 38/21.
How have York fared away at Mansfield recently? In the last three encounters it’s 1 win, 1 loss and a draw, so no real trends to speak of, and anyway, the play-offs seem to disregard league form.
York City also boast an array of attacking players like leading scorer Walker (17 goals, 6 assists), and ten-goal trio of McLaughlin, Blair and Reed who have not only scored 30 goals between them, but have contributed 18 assists to boot also.
The Betting Veridct :
This will be a tense encounter, make no mistake, but I’m going to stick my neck out for this one and I’ll back The Stags to finally get across the line with perhaps a 2-1 scoreline today.
The Pick :
Mansfield Town 2-1 York City
BEST BETTING TIP :
Main Pick :Take Mansfield Town to win @ 2.25 at Pinnacle
