Imps travel to out-of-form Kidderminster.

By Nathan Jackson
February 24 2004

On Saturday, the Imps travel just south of Birmingham to face Kidderminster Harriers who, despite a good start, have quickly faded down the table.

Following Tuesday nights 2-0 win away at Southend, Imps fans are now extremely confident about their chances of climbing the table quickly and are now faced with a trip to fellow-strugglers, Kidderminster Harriers. Ironically, Kidderminster lost 2-0 on Tuesday night to Scunthorpe United.

City have found good form recently, getting 8 points from the last 12 possible and not conceeding a goal in that time. The results of these games include a 3-0 win over York at home, 2-0 at Southend and 2 0-0 draws at home to Orient and away at Cambridge respectivly.

Kidderminster started the season very quickly, winning 2-1 at home to Mansfield and 2-0 away at Darlington in their first two games, however, they haven't won since then. Their results since then have been a 2-0 loss at home to Bury, 2-1 loss at Cheltenham, 1-1 against Oxford at home, 1-0 loss away at Bristol Rovers, 1-1 at Macclesfield and on Tuesday, they crashed 2-0 at home to Scunny.

Results between the 2 sides have gone slight City's way, winning 2 out of the 6 games played between the 2 clubs compared to Kiddy's 1. The first ever game between the 2 sides was an entertaining 3-3 draw at Sincil Bank. Later on that season, City won 3-1 at Aggborough. Kiddy got revenge the next season winning 1-0 at Sincil Bank and drawing 1-1 at Aggborough. The results were reversed last season however when it was 1-1 at Aggborough on the first game of the season before City won 1-0 at Sincil Bank in April. The most outstanding fact here is that the only result that hasn't happened is a Kidderminster win at Aggborough.

Kiddy rely heavily on the goals of Bo Henrikson, so heavily infact, that if you take his goals out of games last season, then Kidderminster would have been relegated (for example, if Kiddy were 3-2 up with Henrikson scoring 2, take out his goals and Kiddy are losing) a fact that cannot be said about any other striker who scored more than 15 goals last season. They have also just signed ex-Imp Robert Betts after he was released from Rochdale after failing to impress Buckley.

Prediction - Due to City's increasingly good form and Kiddy's poor form, I predict another 2-0 win for the Imps but hell, what do I know :P