Rovers and Redbridge- winner takes all!

What a season it has been for Stanway Rovers- indeed, after their Essex Senior League title last season newcomers to the club will have known nothing but glory. Well, that glory may not have finished for the season- although Redbridge will very much hope that it has!

Their first Isthmian campaign has seen Rovers finish in fourth place, six points clear of their fifth place visitors. They head into our Pitching In Isthmian North Promotion Final having won their last four matches, the most recent of those victories coming at Waltham Abbey in Tuesday’s Semi-Final.

The travelling Motormen have also won four in a row, their victory over Felixstowe and Walton United on Tuesday- a side who finished twenty six points ahead of them in the table and who had defeated them the previous six times they had met- ensuring that they hit the road full of confidence. The sides have met three times already this season, the last of those as recently as Easter Saturday, when the Motormen came from three goals behind at the break to take a point in a three-three draw.

Earlier in the campaign the sides met In East London in the Velocity Cup, the Motormen triumphing four-one and continuing a run which led them to the Semi-Finals. Their first League meeting, back in August, ended in a two-one win for Rovers.

The hosts will be favourites, perhaps, due to their home advantage and the four league points they took from their visitors, but perhaps that should be tempered by the knowledge that both sides were far more successful on the road than on their own patch this season. 

Kick off- of course- is at 3PM. The match is all-ticket, and all fans should purchase their tickets HERE.