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Forest Green prepare to entertain York City at The Lawn on Saturday afternoon, hoping to break their duck against the visitors. Out of their two previous meetings, the Rovers have drawn one game and lost the other.
The most recent encounter between these two sides at The Lawn was just last season, in September 2005, with York City inflicting a narrow 1-2 defeat upon the Rovers in a Conference match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2005/2006 | Sat 25 Feb | York City | 5 - 1 | Forest Green | CONF |
| 2005/2006 | Sat 10 Sep | Forest Green | 1-2 | York City | CONF |
| 2004/2005 | Sat 12 Feb | Forest Green | 1 - 1 | York City | CONF |
| 2004/2005 | Sat 06 Nov | York City | 1 - 3 | Forest Green | CONF |
Recent respective form guides
Forest Green Rovers have lost just once in their last six home games, winning four and drawing the other one. A generous 9 goals have been both scored and conceded in this period.
The Minstermen have had a decent run of form away from home recently, coming away with three points on 3 occasions, but drawing 1 and losing 2. The Minstermen's have scored 10 goals in these games, but conceded an alarming 11.
Forest Green find themselves struggling down in 17th position in the league having picked up 22 points from their 21 matches. York City lie just outside the playoff positions in the Nationwide Conference, picking up 34 from their 20 games so far.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Forest Green | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
| York City | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Forest Green are starting to turn The Lawn into a fortress, but the quality of opposition for this game makes your FootyMad panel believe the teams will share the spoils on this occasion. Score draw
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Forest Green | Unbeaten in the last 4 home games. Unbeaten run of 7 matches. |
| York City | Last drawn game 5 outings ago. |