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Once again we’re at home tomorrow, facing the sort of game we need to be looking to win if we’re to maintain our title challenge. Seven of our last ten games have been in North Wales, but unfortunately, this remarkable sequence of fixtures coincides with a wobble in our home results which is quite unlike us for the last three years.

Our recent stuttering form at The Racecourse is highly uncharacteristic. Our win over Rushall Olympic ended our first sequence of three home games without a win since last season, when our poor run-in cost us the title. Between March and April we lost to Alfreton Town and Forest Green Rovers, and then drew with Grimsby Town.

At least we avoided going four consecutive games without a win for the first time since March 2010, when we lost to Stevenage Borough then drew with Ebbsfleet United, Altrincham and Cambridge United.

Defensively, the second half seems to be our issue at home. We’ve conceded fifteen goals at The Racecourse, but eleven of them have come after the break. On the other hand, we’re a lot more potent in attack after a rest: we’ve scored seventeen home goals in the second half and just ten in the first.

Until recently we had a very good record of holding onto what we had at the break at home. Only once previously this season had we failed to at least hold onto the result we had at the end of the first half, when Dartford snatched a final minute equaliser after we’d led them 2-1 at half time.

However, we’ve started to squander decent situations at home, throwing away leads against Alfreton and Gateshead and allowing Hereford to grab a late winner.

There really isn’t much to report in terms of history against Nuneaton Borough. Our clash three months ago at Liberty Way was the first time the two sides have met, and it ended in a rather drab goalless draw. Wrexham, with a strong wind at their backs, dominated the first half but did not to capitalise, failing to test Borough’s stand-in keeper Ben McNamara often enough.

In the second half things were much more even, and The Dragon had to thank Joslain Mayebi for a superb double save which ensured they emerged unbeaten.

Worryingly, the clean sheet we kept at Nuneaton, back in September, was the last one we’ve kept away from home. It was also the last time we failed to score in an away game until last Saturday, which ended a run of eleven consecutive matches in which we hit the net.

Our two most senior players will ring up significant achievements against Nuneaton. There are a number of significant milestones coming up for Dean Keates and the first one arrives tomorrow, when he makes the five hundred and twenty fifth league appearance of his sixteen year professional career. Coincidentally, Andy Morrell will hit the same number of career appearances in tomorrow’s game.