BURTON Albion return to home league action for the first time in nearly a month when we welcome Plymouth Argyle to the Pirelli Stadium (3pm kick-off).
FORM GUIDE
The Brewers are back on home soil tomorrow and will look to leave last week’s 3-0 defeat away at Morecambe behind them. Despite being out of form, Albion’s last home match ended in a 3-2 victory over Fleetwood Town after an impressive fightback from 2-0 down.
Plymouth Argyle come into the fixture off the back of a 1-0 home victory over promotion rivals Oxford United. The Pilgrims have won seven of their last eight games, keeping a clean sheet in each one of those victories.
HEAD 2 HEAD
Burton have faced Plymouth Argyle a total of 13 times since the Brewers’ promotion to the EFL. Albion have won six of these matches while Plymouth have come out victorious on three occasions. The other four games ended in a draw.
A memorable match between the two came in October 2018 when Albion came from behind twice to secure a 3-2 victory at Home Park. A Lucas Akins strike and a Kyle McFadzean brace ensured all three points for the Brewers.
BREWERS TEAM NEWS
Oumar Niasse will miss out due to personal reasons while Conor Shaughnessy begins his suspension tomorrow after his red card away at Morecambe last week.
Ciaran Gilligan suffered a slight injury against Morecambe but has trained this week.
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE TEAM NEWS
Injured duo Conor Grant and Steven Sessegnon returned to training this week and are expected to be included tomorrow afternoon.
MATCH OFFICIALS
The referee for tomorrow’s encounter will be Leigh Doughty, who will be assisted by Craig Taylor and Adrian Waters. The Fourth Official for the game will be Scott Tallis.
SPONSORS
MATCH SPONSOR – BRITVIC
Britvic is a producer of soft drinks based in Hemel Hempstead. The company originates from the mid 19th century. Formally known as the British Vitamin Company, it changed its name to Britvic in 1971. The company has, over theyears, developed a strong portfolio of its own iconic brands, including Robinsons, Tango, J2O, Drench, Ballygowan, and Fruit Shoots. In addition, in GB and Ireland, the company produces and sells a number of PepsiCo’s famous soft drinks brands, including Pepsi Max and 7UP under exclusive agreements with PepsiCo. Britvic is the largest supplier of branded still soft drinks and the number two supplier of branded carbonated soft drinks in GB. Britvic is proud to support and sponsor Burton Albion FC and is represented today by National Account Managers Tim Brown and David.
MAN-OF-THE-MATCH SPONSOR – SMJ BRADY CONSTRUCTION LTD
SMJ Brady Construction limited is a family run business with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the industry. We are based in Derby and cover works throughout the UK.We have a strong reputation for quality craftsmanship and project management, using our established team of time-served tradesmen. Overall, our aim on all our projects is to work as part of a team maintaining good working relationships within the design team, cost consultants, and clients. We continually strive to maintain a high-quality end product and are capable of undertaking fast track projects when the need arises, and no job is too small.
MATCH BALL SPONSOR – MARLBOROUGH GROUP
Tomorrow’s Match Ball Sponsor is the Marlborough Group, one of the UK’s leading independently owned investment management specialists. Marlborough Group is proud to manage over £11billion for more than 200,000 clients across its range of investment solutions. Marlborough’s Chairman, Andrew Staley, joins us for today’s game.
PROGRAMME SPONSOR – AUTO SERVICE PLUS
Auto Service Plus Ltd is based in King Street Burton on Trent. The company is a family business founded by John and Ann Docherty who have been great supporters of Burton Albion over many years. Auto Service Plus Ltd has been established over 30 years providing excellent servicing, repairs and MOT to all makes of vehicles. Auto Service Plus is very proud of its long association with Burton Albion and wishes Burton Albion all the best for tomorrow's game against Plymouth Argyle.
50/50 DRAW TICKETS
The draw allows fans the chance to win a cash prize whole also supporting the work of the Burton Albion Community Trust.
You can get your tickets from the staff handing them out around the ground.
FAMILY ZONE
The Family Zone will be open in the usual place on the 3G pitch next to the BACT building.
The Family Zone will feature music, games and lots of fun activities for all the family. You can grab an ‘honesty flag’ to use during the game to cheer on the Brewers. We kindly ask you to return the flag after the game.
The Family Zone will be open from 1.30pm to 2.45pm.
There are also lots of fun activities to do in the family section of our website – and we are encouraging all young Brewers to write a letter to Billy and Bettie ahead of tomorrow! Click the link below to be taken to the page and get your letter to send!
https://www.burtonalbionfc.co.uk/fans/families/
MATCHDAY PLAYLIST
Tomorrow’s Matchday Playlist has been selected by Brewers Defender Sam Hughes. If you can’t wait till tomorrow to hear the playlist, CLICK HERE to listen on Spotify.
NCS TAKEOVER GAME
Burton Albion Community Trust are proud delivery partners of the National Citizen Service (NCS) for their amazing event this summer.
The first week of the event will be a residential in Kibblestone with action packed activities like axe throwing, crate stacking, and so much more! As well as these, mixed in are some Inspirational talks and practical life skill workshops.
Those life skills include budgeting for life events, presenting to a room full of people and generally just helping young people who may be lacking in confidence, to be able to assertively put themselves in situations they may not have been comfortable with before they signed up for the programme.
The second week participants get to give back to the community and appreciate the effect that work in the community can do. Creating greener spaces at schools for younger people and raise money for local charities.
PLACARD PARADE
A placard parade will take place again this year, giving businesses the chance to support Burton Rotary Club. The parade will take place during the half-time break at tomorrow’s home game at the Pirelli Stadium. There will also be a bucket collection with volunteers from Rotary asking fans to donate money that will go to help the disaster relief effort in Ukraine. Meanwhile, donations made by businesses taking part in the placard parade will go to local good causes. The parade was due to take place on March 26 but with the Wigan game being postponed has moved to tomorrow’s tie.
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION DAY
Tomorrow’s game is our official Together Against Discrimination matchday in which Burton Albion will be reinforcing the club’s support for this EFL campaign. Together Against Discrimination sees clubs across all three divisions adopting a unified position on a matchday reiterating that racism, discrimination and abuse is not welcome in our game or in our communities.
TICKETS
Tickets are available to buy online before 5pm this evening. Brewers fans CAN pay in cash on the turnstiles on the day of the game, but will incur a £2 increase on pre-matchday prices.
IFOLLOW
The game is not available to live stream, but you can buy an audio only pass for £2.50.