Swindon Town may be sitting pretty at the top of League Two with only ten games remaining but on Saturday they face another crucial clash in their quest for promotion as they travel to Gresty Road to take on in-form Crewe Alexandra.

The two sides last met on the first day of season when the Robins emerged victorious thanks to goals from Callum Kennedy, Oliver Risser and Aden Flint. However it will be a different contest tomorrow due to the changes in personal for both sides since August.

Both teams go into this game on the back of impressive results after Crewe beat Gillingham away 3-4 with an injury time winner coming from young sensation Max Clayton. While Swindon will be rightly full of confidence following a massive 1-0 home win over Cheltenham with in-form forward Paul Benson netting the only goal of the game after Cheltenham had earlier missed a penalty.

Swindon has been boosted by the return of Defender Aden Flint who has missed the last few months following a groin injury. Captain Paul Caddis is still not fit though, with the defender still nursing an ankle injury however he is expected to play a part in Tuesday's top of the table clash against Torquay United at the County Ground.

New signing Lee Holmes is set to make his debut after completing his loan from Southampton in time. The 24-year-old winger had previously been on loan at Oxford and coincidently got both assists for the U's against Swindon only a few weeks ago. Crewe have defender Carl Martin injured and fellow defender James Tunnicliffe has returned to parent club Wycombe after having an operation on a shoulder injury.

Both teams still have something to fight for as it gets toward the business end of the season with Swindon sitting quite comfortably at the top of League 2 and having aspirations of going on and winning the title which could result in a sweet double with the JPT final coming up against Npower League 1 side Chesterfield next Sunday at Wembley.

While our opponents Crewe still have ambitions of making the play-offs and they know beating Swindon would be a massive boost especially with fellow play-off chasers Oxford and Rotherham facing each other at the Kassam stadium.

The Alex manager Steve Davis has highlighted Robin’s striker Paul Benson as the main threat to his side and believes if they can keep him out of the game they have a massive chance of coming away with all three points. It could prove to be a very tight encounter with Crewe currently on an unbeaten run of six matches while Swindon have the best defence in the entire league so goals could be at a minimum. Both sides are in need of points to continue their respective fine seasons but hopefully it will be Swindon that prevails tomorrow to further increase our chances of becoming League Two Champions come May.

By Swindon Town blogger Peter Huggins

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