Match preview: Sawbridgeworth Town (A)
There is no rest for the wicked, as Shane Baptiste's men jump straight back into Essex Senior League action on Tuesday night.
Woodford Town will be looking to maintain their one-hundred percent record in the league, when they make the trip up the M11 to face Sawbridgeworth Town on match day two.
The two sides last met each other in January 2023, with The Woods edging out a narrow 1-2 victory at Crofters End. Goals from Lee Sharpe and Jaedon Phillips ensured that Shane Baptiste's men came from behind to pick up all three points, in this exact fixture.
Both sides opened their 24/25 season away from home on Saturday, as last season's ESL runners' up dispatched newly-promoted Benfleet despite ending the affair with nine men, whilst Tuesday's hosts lost 2-0 at Frenford.
The Woods
Woodford will be looking to keep up their winning start in the league, when they make the trip up the M11 to face Sawbridgeworth Town for the first time in eighteen months.
However, Manager Shane Baptiste will be missing Club Captain James Jewers and centre back Mike Agboola - both were sent off in bizarre and baffling fashion during the opening day victory.
A win for the visitors at Crofters End on Tuesday night would mean they will boast a one-hundred percent from the first two league games, for the first time since the beginning of the 18/19 Essex Senior League season - six years ago.
Our opposition
After an absence lasting one season, The Robins are back in the Essex Senior League following their sideways switch to the Spartan South Midlands Football League for the 23/24 season.
Sawbridgeworth are already two games into their season - one ahead of Woodford - due to their season opener in the Hertfordshire FA Charity Shield, although they also lost that game by two-goals-to-one on home soil.
Just two players who played against us in January 2022 were named in Sawbridgeworth's match day squad for the opening day of the 24/25 league season, with our hosts winning just three times at home in the last calendar year.
Match details
This game will take place at Sawbridgeworth Town's Crofters End stadium - CM21 0DE.
Being a midweek matchup, this contest will kick off at 19:45 BST, with tickets priced at £8 for adults, £5 for concessions and u16's entering for FREE.