Exeter vs Bury preview
Thursday 14 February 2019 17:17, UK
The contagious sickness bug that recently swept through the Exeter squad has now cleared ahead of their Sky Bet League Two match at home to Bury, according to boss Matt Taylor.
For City's longest away trip of the season to Carlisle on Saturday, which ended in a 1-1 draw, a number of the players and staff were ill.
Aside from the sickness, Taylor has no serious injury problems as his eighth-placed side look to move into the play-off places. Defender Jaden Brown, who was an unused substitute at Carlisle, will hope for a debut after recently signing on loan from Huddersfield.
Bury manager Ryan Lowe is likely to have no new injury concerns ahead of the game as his side look to consolidate their automatic promotion position.
Steven Dawson remains sidelined with a foot injury, as does Jermaine Beckford with a knee injury that has restricted him to just one appearance this season. The Shakers have not lost so far in 2019, winning seven and drawing two of nine games, with Lowe hoping their run of form continues against the Grecians.
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Exeter are unbeaten in four Football League home games against Bury (W2 D2) since a 1-2 defeat in April 2003.
Bury, 2-0 winners in the reverse meeting in December 2018, have only ever done a Football League double over Exeter once before, doing so in 2002-03.
Exeter have lost one of their last six home league games (W4 D1), winning each of the last two.
Bury are unbeaten in their last eight league outings (W5 D3); no League Two side are on a longer current run in the division (Lincoln also 8).
Jay O'Shea has scored 14 goals for Bury this season - more goals than he has ever managed in a single English Football League campaign.
