Plymouth Argyle vs Cheltenham Town

Steven Schumacher has worked wonders to keep the club competing for promotion to the Championship.

A total of 35 points have been accumulated from 18 matches, the fourth-best return in the division, and it has left the club in fourth position ahead of the run-in.

As it stands, Argyle trail leaders Rotherham United by nine points, but their game in hand and current form has ensured that the Millers have reason to be looking over their shoulder.

Since Plymouth's last defeat, which came against Rotherham on February 26, they have posted five victories in a row without conceding a goal, the latest success coming by a 4-0 scoreline against Accrington Stanley.

Ryan Hardie has scored in four of those fixtures, taking his tally for the campaign to 16 strikes from 33 appearances.

As far as Cheltenham are concerned, they are merely playing for pride with the club sitting 17 points adrift of the playoffs with just eight matches remaining.

Coincidentally, they sit the same number of points above the relegation zone, but Michael Duff can be more than satisfied with the club's first year back in this division.

That said, he will want their current form to continue, the Robins collecting nine points from a possible 12 with their only defeat coming against promotion-chasing MK Dons.

Cheltenham head into this contest on the back of successive 3-1 victories against Morecambe and AFC Wimbledon respectively, Callum Wright and Alfie May getting on the scoresheet on both occasions.

Despite suggesting that he was not overly pleased with Plymouth's performance against Accrington, Schumacher is unlikely to tinker with his team for Tuesday's game but for Broom replacing Camara.

Panutche Camara and Luke Jephcott Both will miss the Greens’ Sky Bet League One matches against Cheltenham Town and Ipswich Town because they both been selected for their respective international squads

However, Schumacher talked up the impact of Niall Ennis from the substitutes' bench after that result, and the forward may potentially take the place of Jordan Garrick.

While Cheltenham prevailed at the weekend, they did so in contrasting style, relying on three late goals after Duff had previously made a triple change.

Aaron Ramsey provided an assist and George Lloyd got on the scoresheet, leaving the pair in contention to earn a recall to the starting lineup.

With Charlie Colkett also being on the pitch for the turnaround, the trio could take the places of Elliot Bonds, Liam Sercombe and Andy Williams.

Plymouth Argyle possible starting lineup:

Cooper; Wilson, Bolton, Gillesphey; Edwards, Mayor, Houghton, Broom, Grant; Garrick, Hardie

Cheltenham Town possible starting lineup:

Evans; Long, Raglan, Boyle; Blair, Wright, Ramsey, Colkett, Williams; Lloyd, May

Referee

Chris Pollard is the man in the middle,

So far this season he has issued 72 yellow cards and one red in 22 games.

He will be assisted on Tuesday by Declan O'Shea and Justin Amey

The fourth official is Adrian Quelch

Cheltenham Town view of the game


You go from playing a struggling AFC Wimbledon team to one bang in form, with Plymouth winning their last five. What have you made of their recent performances?

You don't win nine games out of 11 games without being a good team. Ryan Lowe did a good job and it's been a seamless transition really (under Steve Schumacher) and they've actually improved. We know the next three games, although we are focused on this one, are going to be really, really tough.

Ryan Broom is not guaranteed to start, such is their strength. You have often described Danny Mayor as the best player in League Two, how does he rank in League One?

They have a lot of good players and they have a definite way of playing. It's a big team, I'd imagine there will be a pretty big crowd and they are going really well so credit to them that they've managed to keep kicking on.

It's another long midweek trip. Will you do anything differently for this one?

We'll do what we've always done. The thing with Plymouth is that most of our lads are Cheltenham or Midlands based, so it's not a case of people wanting to drive themselves there when we play up north and stay over with their families, but we didn't allow that for Morecambe. We'll get on the bus, travel, prepare as well as we can and Monday was obviously a light day. We'll try and get a result against if not the form team, one of the form teams in the league.

Got my ticket today, looking forward to the game, hope my infrequent visits doesn't jinx the result tomorrow.
Hopefully I witness another win.
COYG

Looks like Scarr is back in training. be harsh on any of the back 3 to drop them for him

If he impresses in training and deserves the shirt I'm sure Shoey will give it to him, no time now for tantrums.

Don't need to change a winning side.
Gillesphey is doing well not as many mistakes, Wilsons an ever present and Bolton looks a natural fit, 4 into 3 doesn't go.

Jethro wrote:

Don't need to change a winning side.
Gillesphey is doing well not as many mistakes, Wilsons an ever present and Bolton looks a natural fit, 4 into 3 doesn't go.

Agreed. It would be a rum old selection to change a defence which has kept 5 clean sheets in a row, can't see it happening and Scarr will have to wait his turn as indeed the guy from Huddersfield has.

Argo 3 Nam 1

A total of 5% of income from fans buying Plymouth tickets through the club will go back to Cheltenham.

Think Argyle will have too much in the tank for Cheltenham. 3-0 to the greens.

If we don't put 6 or 7 past this miserable outfit we'll be relegated from the championship at the first time of asking. SORT IT OUT Shoe E

Cheltenham are a very, very, VERY GOOD SIDE this will be a really, REALLY TOUGH GAME foreshore, Argyle 3 Cheltenham 1.

Joking aside though last month Cheltenham did put 5 past Wycombe away and also beat Sunderland.  Wouldn't be surprised if they did go away with at least a point.

1-1

1-0 a daisy cutter from Ennis

Roar.

Mayor 2-0

Neigggghhhhh! Mayor hoofs it in and gallops towards the fans for applause and a lump of sugar. 2 0.

Other results still going our way.

Argo by far the better side bloody freezing here in block A lower Mayflower, wish they corners were filled in.

Great win seem to be avoiding every chance to trip up. Very in Argyle like. Six points off Rotherham, mental innit.

Heading back to station second half was a struggle but we ground out another win

akagreengull wrote:

Argo by far the better side  bloody freezing here in block A lower Mayflower, wish they corners were filled in.

Was alright over Lyndhurst cold now walking down to station

Adrenaline seems to be getting us through games because that wasn’t in any way shape or form a dominant performance. Very even in almost every respect. Fair play to Cheltenham, they were on a good little run of form and their confidence was there for all to see.

I do love how dogged we seem to be these days defensively. Hughes has deffo added a steely belief into our play, we now have a ‘thou shalt not pass’ mentality....which we’ll need, ‘cos it gets a whole lot harder from here on in.

Edwards never stopped running.
Same with Hardie
Mayor is a different player now soundbites left.

We tired a bit in second half but we finished the job making it two nil

Another game that we didn't play as well as we could but did more than enough to win, thanks to quality goals from Ennis and Mayor. We could have had a couple more in the second half but that would have been tough on Cheltenham, who weren't bad coming forward but pretty shaky at the back.

Ennis looked sharp, Edwards had another good game, Bolton was strong at the back, Cooper made a few good saves again.

8 pts clear of 7th place, just 2 behind MK Dons.

akagreengull wrote:

Argo by far the better side  bloody freezing here in block A lower Mayflower, wish they corners were filled in.

indeed ..it certainly gets cold when the temperature drops and that old wind blows along there

Much like the Accrington match, first half we didn’t play well and go in 2-0 up, had a spell in the second half but still not completely on our game, they’d better shape up for the Ipswich game.
But another 3 Pts and play offs are getting closer, so happy days.