{"id":25106,"date":"2025-09-23T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk\/?p=25106"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:11:05","slug":"match-preview-scunthorpe-united-a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk\/match-preview-scunthorpe-united-a-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Match preview: Scunthorpe United (A)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tomorrow, Luke Garrard\u2019s side are heading back to Lincolnshire for the second time in five days with a trip to fellow high-flyers Scunthorpe United, kicking off at 19:45.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><b>Last season for the Iron<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">After back-to-back relegations which saw them go from Sky Bet League Two to the Enterprise National League North, Andy Butler halted the slide and secured promotion back to the fifth tier at the first time of asking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">Having been in contention to win the title for the whole campaign, the Iron went up via the play-offs after being two points behind champions Brackley Town &#8211; getting past Chester in a 2-1 win in the Promotion Final.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>One to watch\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">Playing an integral role in their promotion to the National League, lethal striker Callum Roberts netted 20 league goals last term and will be looking to replicate that form this season. The former Notts County man joined the Iron from Scottish Premiership side Aberdeen last summer and has one goal and four assists to his name so far this campaign.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The Wood<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">Second-half strikes from Zak Brunt and Abdul Abdulmalik ensured the Wood sealed a 2-0 win at Boston United last time out. This meant we stayed top of the form guide with our fourth win in a row, stretching the unbeaten run to ten games in all competitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">This followed two impressive home wins against Morecambe and Altrincham as well as a National League Cup victory over West Brom U21\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Ticket information\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">Ticket information can be found by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scunthorpeunited.fanbaseclub.com\/Fan\/Tickets\/ViewAllocation?fixtureId=14583&amp;allocationGuid=a54d61ad-e015-4a99-9560-7a9fafafa17e\"><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">clicking here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Pre-match interview<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INTERVIEW | Luke Garrard pre - Scunthorpe Utd (A) | Enterprise National League | 23rd September 2025\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZpPE4ITCfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><b>Can\u2019t join us tomorrow evening?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">Follow all of the action from the Attis Arena on the club\u2019s official social media channels, with live updates on both X and Instagram, available at @boreham_woodfc. Don\u2019t forget to turn your notifications on!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">Match preview written by Jack Patmore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Luke Garrard\u2019s side are heading back to Lincolnshire for the second time in five days with a trip to fellow high-flyers Scunthorpe United, kicking off at 19:45.\u00a0 Last season for the Iron After back-to-back relegations which saw them go from Sky Bet League Two to the Enterprise National League North, Andy Butler halted the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-preview"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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