Heys welcome their neighbours Bury AFC to Adie Moran Park on Saturday afternoon for an eagerly anticipated local derby. (3pm)

After their victory at AVRO last weekend, Heys will be looking to claim more local bragging rights whilst looking to maintain their good form of the past couple of months.

Heys have won seven of their last nine League games to push back up the NW Counties Premier Division table after a bleak midwinter run of form. It’s pushed Heys back up to sixth in the table with 63 points from 35 games with scope to push higher over the remaining seven games. Although, a promotion / play off spot looks remote, recent weeks have seen indifferent results for all the teams above them and anything can happen as the pressure mounts in the closing weeks. Joint Managers Lee O‘Brien and James Hampson will not allow any slackening off as the finish line comes into view and have made it clear that the aim is to finish as high up the table as possible.

Bury AFC arrive looking to bounce back from a penalty shoot-out knockout at Congleton Town in the FA Vase Quarter Final last weekend. With their midweek home game with AFC Liverpool having been postponed they will approach the game fresh as they embark on a demanding end of season run, with this game the first of twelve matches they have to play in the final five weeks of the season.

Andy Welsh’s side have had a busy season with good runs in the FA Cup and FA Vase, which has left them playing catch up in the League, but a run of tens wins and a draw from late November to late February catapulted them back up the table. The last six games have brought nine points from six games to slow their progress but without the distraction of the Vase they know that their destiny is in their own hands over the coming weeks. With 65 points from 30 games they come into the match in fifth place and with between five and six games in hand on the sides above them.

This will be the fourth time the clubs gave met, but the first time at Adie Moran Park. Heys have won both League meetings played at the Neuven Stadium winning 2-1 in the Covid curtailed 2020-21 season and 2-0 earlier this season, whilst Bury claimed the spoils in a 4-1 Macron Cup tie at the of last season.

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