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Morecambe travel to take on Rushden & Diamonds at Nene Park on Tuesday evening, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Shrimps will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them with only a 20.00% success rate in the fixture.
The last time the two teams met at Rushden & D. was back in April 2001, over five years ago, when they eased past their opponents in a high-scoring 4 - 1 thriller, in a Conference match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2006/2007 | Tue 03 Oct | Morecambe | 1 - 0 | Rushden & D. | CONF |
| 2000/2001 | Sat 07 Apr | Rushden & D. | 4 - 1 | Morecambe | CONF |
| 2000/2001 | Sat 21 Oct | Morecambe | 2 - 1 | Rushden & D. | CONF |
| 1999/2000 | Tue 04 Apr | Rushden & D. | 0 - 2 | Morecambe | CONF |
| 1999/2000 | Sat 14 Aug | Morecambe | 0 - 0 | Rushden & D. | CONF |
| 1998/1999 | Sat 20 Mar | Morecambe | 2 - 3 | Rushden & D. | CONF |
| 1998/1999 | Sat 24 Oct | Rushden & D. | 3 - 1 | Morecambe | CONF |
Recent respective form guides
Rushden & Diamonds are unbeaten in their last six home games, winning five of them, and drawing the other one. These high-scoring games have yielded a total of 13 goals for the Diamonds, with 5 goals against.
The Shrimps 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 Shrimps's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 8 goals for and 7 against.
Rushden & D.'s 44 points from 33 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 12th position. Morecambe lie just outside the playoff positions in the Nationwide Conference, picking up 55 from their 32 games so far.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Rushden & D. | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 11 |
| Morecambe | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
This promises to be an excellent test for the in-form Shrimps, but one which I believe will end in stalemate. Score draw
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Rushden & D. | Won 4 successive home games. 5 games since last home draw. Unbeaten run of 5 matches. |
| Morecambe | 5 games since last away draw. 4 games since last defeat. |