Darlington look to make it four wins in a row when they travel to struggling Stamford on Tuesday night. Victory would see the Quakers close the gap on league leaders Blyth Spartans to four points, as they are not in mid-week action.

Premier Division

P          W        D         L          F          A         PTS     GD

Blyth                                       37        25        3          9          69        34        78        +35

Darlington                               33        22        5          6          73        33        71        +40

Salford City                            37        21        6          9          75        45        69        +30

Workington                             36        20        9          7          62        38        69        +24

Stourbridge                             34        20        6          8          70        48        66        +22

Barwell                                    37        21        3          13        70        54        66        +16

Ashton United                          34        19        7          8          71        41        64        +30

Rushall Olympic                     34        15        9          9          61        42        57        +19

A double from Nathan Cartman along with goals from Kevin Burgess, Liam Hardy and Stephen Thompson helped Darlington to an impressive 5-0 victory away to Matlock Town on Saturday, their 11th away league win of the season.

Darlington team at Matlock:

Jameson, Hunter, Galbraith, Turnbull (sub Nowakowski 65), Burgess, Brown, Portas, .Scott, Gaskell (sub Hardy 57 mins), Cartman (sub Armstrong 57 mins), Thompson.

Subs not used: Mitchell, Provett.

Goals: Cartman (2 mins, 0-1, 16 mins, 0-2) Burgess (39 mins 0-3), Hardy (64 mins, 0-4), Thompson (75 mins, 0-5)

Nathan Cartman and Lee Gaskell are joint top scorers for Quakers in the league, with 14 apiece.

Stamford sit just outside the relegation zone in 20^th place, one point ahead of Whitby Town. At home they have only won four times in the league so far this season. On Saturday they lost 3-1 away to Buxton. However, before this they had won four of their previous five league games.  Their top scorer this season is Greg Smith who has scored ten goals, while recent signing Jake Newman has scored six.

Recent form

March 12^th Buxton (away) lost 1-3 Newman

Bastock, Hare, Luto (sub Batchelor 86), Malone, Hill, Hartley, Beeson (sub Downey 70), Duffy, G. Smith, Newman, J. Smith (sub Wightwick 77)

March 5^th v Skelmersdale (home) won 5-2. Newman, G Smith 2, J Smith, Duffy

February 27^th v Matlock (home) won 2-0 Newman 2

February 22^nd v Ilkeston (away) won 3-0. Beeson, G Smith, Malone

February 20^th v Workington (away) lost 0-2

February 13^th v Frickley (home) won 1-0. Newman

February 6^th Sutton Coldfield (away) lost 0-2

Since being promoted into the division in the 2012/13 season Stamford have finished each season in the bottom half of the table, last year finishing in 20^th place.

The two teams are yet to meet this season, with the reverse fixture taking place at Heritage Park on the 16^th of April, the second last Saturday of the campaign.

Kick off at Stamford on Tuesday is 7:45pm, updates will be made from the club’s Facebook, Twitter, Phone App, Website and be covered live on Darlo Fans Radio.