Recap: Chesterfield beat League Two Bradford City as Danny Rowe scores against his former club
The Spireites have played Alfreton Town and Matlock Town so far during pre-season and have just returned from a four-day training camp at Loughborough University.
The Bantams are now managed by Derek Adams, who led Morecambe to promotion to League One through the play-offs last season.
Our reporter Liam Norcliffe is at the game and will have all the build-up, team news, updates and reaction.
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Key Events
- FT: Chesterfield 2 v 1 Bradford City
- Danny Rowe and Stefan Payne put Blues 2-0 ahead after five minutes
- Paudie O’Connor heads one back for visitors on 49 minutes
- Chesterfield XI: Loach; Grimes, Gunning, Maguire; King, Oyeleke, Khan, Clarke, Miller; Rowe, Payne. Subs: Weston, Mandeville, McCourt, Tyson, Rowley and trialists x3.
Goalkeeper trialist
It seems Chesterfield have another goalkeeper on trial tonight.
I don’t recognise him but he is warming up with Scott Loach.
Haydn Hollis
A behind-the-scenes video at the Loughborough training camp shows Haydn Hollis joining in some of the training.
The defender ruptured his Achilles in April and was set to be out for several months.
Great to see coming along in his recovery.
George Carline and Fraser Kerr, who are both yet to feature during pre-season, can also be seen on the video so we might see them get some minutes soon.
The visitors
Will provide Town with a very tough test after winning all five of their pre-season matches so far.
They beat Championship Blackburn Rovers 2-0 at the weekend and have also overcome Doncaster Rovers of League One by the same scoreline.
The West Yorkshire outfit have also seen off Brighouse Town, Guiseley and Bradford Park Avenue.
Trialist
We are expecting at least one trialist to be given the chance to impress for Chesterfield tonight.
One of the trialists who played in the second-half against Matlock last week has been with the squad at the four-day training camp at Loughborough University.
There could be one or two more, but we shall see.