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Gateshead
Braintree Town
Next up on the road for the Gateshead is a 544-mile round trip to The Rare Breed Meat Co. Stadium to face Braintree Town.
Braintree come into Saturday’s game having lost 2-0 against Boston United on Wednesday evening. The Iron are placed 19th in the National League, one point above the drop zone, and will be looking to build upon last season’s 17th placed finish, finishing four points above the drop zone. There’s plenty of Football League experience within the Braintree squad, with familiar names Tommy Smith, Alan Judge and John Akinde all turning out for The Iron.
We’ve Met Before
In the most recent meeting between these two sides, Braintree clinched all three points with a 3-1 victory on Tyneside. Dan Jones’ header gave The Heed the lead midway through the first half, before three second half Braintree goals ensured the points returned to Essex, with Chay Cooper and Kyreece Lisbie scoring either side of a John Akinde penalty.
Travel & Ticketing Information
The Rare Breed Meat Co. Stadium is located to the South East of Braintree Town Centre and is around a 25-minute walk from the Town Centre, or 20-minute walk from either Braintree Railway Station or Braintree Freeport Railway Station.
If you’re heading down by rail, Braintree Station is to the South-East of the town centre, around a mile from the ground and has a taxi rank outside, you can also catch the 38 or 38A bus from Braintree Railway Station to the ground. Braintree Freeport is closer, but you can only access the ground on foot from this station, it’s around a 20-minute walk to the ground from here.
There are no direct trains from Newcastle Central Station to Braintree or Braintree Freeport, so our recommended route would be to catch an LNER or Lumo service from Newcastle to London Kings Cross, change onto the London Underground – Circle, Metropolitan or Hammersmith & City lines to Liverpool Street, then catch an Abellio Greater Anglia service from Liverpool Street to Braintree or Braintree Freeport.
If you’re travelling by car, from the North, leave the M25 at Junction 27 and head north on the M11. Leave the M11 at Junction 8 and head east on the A120. Follow the A120 for 16 miles until you reach Galley’s Corner roundabout. Take the 1st exit on to Cressing Road, the ground is approximately ¾ of a mile on the left, and is signposted.
There is a small car park at the ground, and usage does incur a small charge. The car park closes around 30 minutes prior to kick-off. There is ample on-street parking around the stadium.
Tickets can be purchased ahead of the fixture, and are available online here, priced at:
Adult: £20.94
Concession (OAP): £15.71
Under 18: £10.47
Under 12: £5.24
Adult tickets purchased on the day are subject to a price increase and will be charged at £22.
Braintree Town encourage supporters wishing to purchase an e-ticket online and enter the stadium via gates 1-4 to avoid delays at the turnstiles. There will still be one designated turnstile only for card and cash payments operating for those who choose not to purchase a ticket online, but lengthy delays are possible, and you are advised to arrive in sufficient time to avoid delay in entering the ground.
Segregation will not be in force for this game.
Bars & Pubs
Away fans are welcome in the Quag End Fan Zone, within the stadium, which will be open from 1pm with a bar selling lagers and ales, together with Sindy’s Hot Food Outlet which will also be open next to the entrance to the Quag End Bar.
Orange Tree, Greene King – Cressing Road, Braintree, Essex, CM7 3PH
The Picture Tree, Wetherspoon – Fairfield Road, Braintree, Essex, CM7 3HA
The Pub – 2 East Street, Braintree, Essex, CM7 3JJ
For those that can’t make it, Gateshead Legion Club is open from 2pm on Saturday, and welcome all Gateshead supporters.
Substitutes
Substitutes
Gateshead earned their first Enterprise National League win in over a month with a 2-1 victory at Braintree Town.
A blistering start from The Heed saw Kain Adom and Kyle Hurst put them two ahead at half time, before the hosts halved the deficit just after the hour mark through Terrell Works.
A late barrage of balls into the box was withstood by Gateshead however, who took three points back to Tyneside to move up to 15th place.
Alun Armstrong was dealt a difficult hand within an hour of kick off when Jacob Butterfield was withdrawn from the starting 11 through illness, and replaced by Josh Home to leave only five substitutes from an available seven.
Gateshead’s start made those in attendance soon forget that though as they took the lead within three minutes when Ben Williams – making his first league start – picked out Adom with a diagonal ball to the far post, before the winger lashed home for his seventh goal of the league season.
That advantage was doubled with 17 minutes on the clock, with Hurst finishing off a move again started by Williams, who stepped into midfield and combined with the front line to allow Curtis Edwards to put a ball across the six-yard box for Hurst to slot home.
Armstrong’s side kept control for the remainder of the opening 45 to go into the break two ahead, with Connor Pani’s 20-yard effort and a Braintree strike both whistling wide of the mark.
Braintree emerged with more purpose after the interval in search of a route back into the game and found the first of the two required when Works squeezed a shot past Tiernan Brooks at the near post, leaving Gateshead with half an hour to protect their lead.
Substitute Harry Chapman almost restored The Heed’s two-goal buffer with just under 20 minutes to go when his deflected shot was parried wide by Mason Terry at full stretch, shortly after Jacob Pinnington sent an effort wide for the hosts.
Braintree claimed they had scored an equaliser into injury time when a goalmouth scramble saw a mass of bodies crowd around the ball on the goal line, though the referee was quick to dismiss appeals despite a number of home shirts running away in celebration in an effort to convince him otherwise.
Gateshead still threatened on the counter late on though, and could have wrapped things up had Adom not struck over the crossbar when he raced through to goal, though it mattered little as the full time whistle blew to hand the visitors a much needed three points.
Gateshead: Brooks, Pani, Richardson, Williams, Ferguson, Home (Flint, 84’), Edwards, John, Hurst (Chapman, 61’), Adom, Nouble.
Substitutes: Leech, Lowery, Bone.
Yellow Cards: Ferguson (53’), Williams (72’)
Goals: Adom (3’), Hurst (17’)
Braintree Town: M. Terry, Clayton, Francis-Clarke, Langston, Pinnington (Thorpe, 87′), Marshall-Miranda, Vennings, Davis (F. Terry, 33′), Babic (Hockey, 77′), Works, Blackwell (Akinde, 87′).
Substitutes: Omrore, Kamara.
Goals: Works (61’)
Attendance: 1,007 (23 Gateshead)
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