It’s a chilly winter Saturday at Whaddon Road as Cheltenham gears up to take on Harrogate Town in a crucial League Two showdown. The home side, has been tipped as the projected winner, but Harrogate Town will be looking to spoil the party.

Cheltenham has been on a decent run, and with home advantage, will look to assert dominance. However, the visitors have shown that they can cause upsets - as seen in their 2-0 win over Cheltenham back in January.

Tactically, Cheltenham will look to exploit the wings and use their home support to drown out the visitors’ game plan. Harrogate Town will look to absorb the pressure and hit Cheltenham on the counter with swift breaks.

A low-scoring game is anticipated - with less than 3.5 goals predicted and the home side edging towards a win but only by a slim margin. With odds stacked against them - Harrogate Town will be the underdogs but they have the capacity to pull a surprise.

Historically - Cheltenham holds a slender advantage in head-to-head results but those wins were not emphatic - rather narrow and hard-fought. Both sides will be geared to cancel each other out and the draw is a possible outcome - with both teams having near-equal probabilities of 45% for the home side and a surprising high -45% for a draw.

The stage is set at Whaddon Road with both teams eyeing the three points - it’s going to be a tense and closely contested fixture with little to choose between them. Will Cheltenham assert home dominance or will Harrogate Town cause a major upset? The answer will emerge come Saturday at 3 pm.