FOREST GREEN ROVERS v LINCOLN CITY
Saturday 19th November 2016 – Kickoff: 1215hrs
Football – England – National League Betting Tips
Saturday’s early kick-off in the English National League features a top of the table clash between hosts and league leaders Forest Green Rovers and second placed Lincoln City at The New Lawn as Forest Green look to strengthen their claims for automatic promotion.
Forest Green currently hold a very useful nine-point lead ahead of the chasing teams Lincoln City and Tranmere Rovers ahead of Saturday’s clash, and they remarkably still remain unbeaten on home turf so far in this campaign with a solid home record of 6-4-0 17/6 under their belts.
Indeed, they’ve now put together an impressive 11-game sequence without defeat in the National League while scoring goals at home has assisted them to the top of the tree with goalscoring midfielders Marsh-Brown and Moore providing back-up to the strikers Murphy (7 goals) and Doidge (6 goals).
Visitors Lincoln City come in to this encounter needing to make up ground on their opponents Forest Green Rovers and if they’re to stand any chance of overhauling the west country outfit in the race for automatic promotion, they’ll have to attack from the off here.
The Imps come into this clash having put together a seven-match unbeaten run of their own which includes wins over Braintree Town 3-0, Wrexham 2-1, Boreham Wood 2-0 and Chester 5-2 and you can see that they have been scoring goals in free fashion in recent weeks too!
Lincoln also hold a reasonable away record that stands at 6-1-2 16/10 and they’re unbeaten in their last three on their travels heading into Saturday’s lunchtime clash while they also possess attacking personnel in the shape of midfielder Arnold (7 goals) and striker Rhead (10 goals).
Pick: Over 2.5 @ 1.83 Ladbrokes
