MATCH PREVIEW: Reds hoping to tame Tigers

“Always expect the unexpected,” are four words every football supporter has stored away on a match day.

When you are winning and sweeping teams aside on a regular basis, a surprise defeat can quickly bring you back to earth.  By the same token, a losing run can be halted against a high-riding, much fancied opponent.

It doesn’t always have a happy ending, of course, but patched-up Reds will believe they have half a chance of upsetting an in-form Worksop Town team at Borough Park on Saturday (3pm).

We were in a similar situation prior to the home game last season and salvaged a point from a thrilling 3-3 draw.

Town were one of the better teams we saw here throughout the 23-24 campaign but, ultimately, they missed out on promotion when Macclesfield knocked them out of the play-offs.  They seem determined to make amends this term and will arrive in west Cumbria in second position – thirteen points better off than Reds after fourteen games!

With a handful of the senior players still out injured, Reds will be short on numbers but not spirit.

Two good training sessions this week have rallied the troops ahead of the last home match before Macclesfield come north at the end of November.

In between, Reds face three successive away matches in the ever-demanding NPL Premier Division.

This is a long-standing fixture against Worksop Town and in fifty-three previous encounters in all competitions, Workington have recorded 21 victories in the series compared to 22 successes posted by Worksop.

• Reds Development squad are also at ‘home’ tomorrow and host Curzon Ashton in a JPL fixture at Whitehaven School (1130).