| Our first ever game against Dagenham & Redbridge
ends a week on our travels with our third successive away game in the
space of seven days. It has so far been a
productive week for Wrexham with a draw at Rochdale being surpassed by
the midweek victory against Bury.
Dagenham, on the other hand, are on a poor run of form and are
without a win in the league since the beginning of October and at home a
month earlier.
This victory over bottom placed Lincoln is their only
victory on home soil and it is not surprising that they find themselves
bottom of the home league table.
With this in mind, the last game you want at home is
the league leaders MK Dons and the Dons were too much for Dagenham in
midweek as they went home with all three points courtesy of a 1-0 win.
This has left Dagenham in their debut season in the
Football League second bottom with 14 points from 18
games, although they are only a point adrift of us in 20th place.
On the plus side, they have progressed through to the
third round of the FA Cup where they will face a trip to Oxford or Southend after defeating non-league opposition in the first two rounds.
Although the Cup is a nice distraction, league form is
the bread and butter and Dagenham currently prop up the overall form
table as they have gone nine league games without a win and have lost
five out of their last six games with the only draw coming at bottom
placed Mansfield.
Top scorer for Dagenham is Ben Strevens who has found
the back of the net eight times this season.
Strevens previously had a seven year spell with Barnet
before joining Dagenham almost twelve months a go from Crawley.
The man in charge of Dagenham is John Still and he
will be celebrating four years as manager at the end of the month and steered
the Daggers to the
Conference Championship last season after mid table finishes in his previous
campaigns in charge.
Still is in his fourth job as manager after spending
one year with Peterborough during the 1990s and he also had two spells
in charge of Barnet before joining his present employers in 2004.
Team News
Wrexham are without match winner Eifion Williams pulled his hamstring whilst scoring his first goal for
the club at Bury and will be out for up to a month.
On the plus side, both Sam Aiston and Matty Done have
recovered from illness and Neil Taylor is expected to travel having
recovered form hamstring problems.
Back injuries have ruled out Mark Jones and Danny
Williams until the New Year whilst Juan Ugarte is expected to return to
training in the next week.
Dagenham hope that Paul Benson will have recovered
from his knee injury but the Daggers do have midfielder Solomon Taiwo
available after suspension.
Richard Graham, Sam Saunders and Dave Rainford are
still two weeks away from fitness and Lee Goodwin is a long term
absentee with a knee injury.
Elsewhere in League Two:
Bottom placed Mansfield entertain the side we defeated
in midweek as 13th placed Bury visit Field Mill.
Lincoln and Grimsby respectively are the two teams that
separate us and Dagenham in the table with the Imps facing a difficult
trip to 5th placed Hereford and Grimsby will be looking to put their midweek
4-0 defeat at home to Darlington behind them when they travel to a
Brentford side who have lost their last four league games
At the other end of the table, leaders MK Dons play host
to Accrington whilst second placed Darlington travel to Morecambe. |
