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Nottingham Forest v Rotherham
The FA Tesco Women's Premier League Northern Division
Sunday 10 February 2008
Lenton Lane, Dunkirk FC

Nottingham Forest can go four points clear at the top of the FA Tesco Women’s Premier League Northern Division with a Sunday victory over a Rotherham United team they have already beaten 6-3 away from home.

Forest, looking to reach the top flight for the first time in the club’s history, will be hot favourites to take maximum points and keep Rotherham hovering precariously just above the relegation zone.

But club captain Catherine Lawson warns that her team must be totally focused as they head into a crucial match for both sides.

"Rotherham may be near the bottom of the table," she said. "But this could be a really tough game for us.

"They’ve had some excellent away results recently, so they’re obviously an improving team and we’ll give them as much respect as we would any side in the league. It’s a massive game for us though, and we want those three points and a few goals as well.

"Although we’re top of the table with not long to go in the season we still feel it could be a tight finish to the promotion race, so goal difference could be vital and we’ll be aiming to boost ours in our last seven matches."

If Forest stay the course to clinch promotion Lawson believes her team could establish themselves in the top flight.

"We’re not thinking too far ahead," added the former England youth international. "But obviously it would be great to go up.

"We may need strengthening if we do it, but we’ve already got a very good squad. It’s hard for the manager to pick the best 11 because there’s real competition for places and that would stand us in good stead.

"The standard of the Northern Division is high, as teams like Blackburn and Liverpool have shown when they’ve gone up, so if we can do it then I feel we could give a good account of ourselves in the National Division."

Neither of Forest’s promotion rivals, Lincoln City and Sunderland, are in action this weekend but in the Southern Division there are two important encounters involving teams battling for a place in the top flight.

Leaders and promotion favourites Fulham entertain fourth in the table Portsmouth, 12 points behind the Cottagers but with three games in hand, while second-placed Barnet visit Keynsham, who lie fifth.