NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH New Year's deja vu

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Details: Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 January 2019 13:28; Published on Tuesday, 01 January 2019 10:53

How are you kicking off 2019?
Our six regional National League South sides can be forgiven a sense of deja vu as they all face Boxing Day rematches.

Most vivid of all will be at Plainmoor where "home" team Truro City - who groundshare at Torquay - seek to reverse a 4-2 Boxing Day defeat by table-topping United, unbeaten in the league since Gary Johnson became yellows manager in mid-September.

Johnson was unconvinced by Saturday's 2-1 home win over a Gloucester City side managed by former Gulls favourite Chris Todd despite Torquay United ending the year on an eight-match winning streak in the league.

Truro City top scorer Tyler Harvey scored all four goals as Leigh Robinson's side bounced back from their Boxing Day away defeat at Torquay by winning 4-1 at third from bottom Hungerford on Saturday to finish 2018 with a win and seven points clear of the bottom three.

Boxing Day's Plainmoor encounter provided United fans in the 3,863 crowd with a real football "Christmas cracker" it will be fascinating to see how today's game plays out...
Gloucester City also groundshare, playing their home games at Southern League 1 South Evesham United's Jubilee Stadium.

Today Todd's fourth from bottom Tigers host basement side Weston-super-Mare AFC seeking to improve on a goalless away draw with Somerset's Seagulls six days ago.

The final rematch of the day is at Twerton Park where Jerry Gill's Bath City - who start the day eighth - host Mark Collier's Chippenham Town.
The sides drew 2-2 on Boxing Day but head into today's encounter boosted by Saturday victories.
Bath won 2-0 at Weston while the Bluebirds edged a five goal end-of-year thriller 3-2 at home to Hampton & Richmond to soar to 12th.

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