GUISELEY and Bradford Park Avenue are both in action tonight looking for the wins that could lift them off the foot of their respective divisions.

The Lions dropped back to the bottom of the National League with a defeat at table-topping Forest Green Rovers on Saturday, and they face another side on the up as they host Gateshead tonight.

The Geordie outfit are ninth and will have their sights set on a fourth straight league victory.

Lions boss Adam Lockwood said: “We face another good side in Gateshead and it will be a different challenge but if we prepare right and do the things that I’m trying to put in place we’ll be okay.

“I keep banging on about it but if we do that we’ll give ourselves a chance in every game we play.”

Avenue travel to fellow strugglers Altrincham in the National North still seething after getting nothing from their trip to Gloucester City.

The Tigers won 1-0 after Bradford had dominated long spells and had what looked a perfectly legitimate goal ruled out.

Bradford boss Mark Bower said: “We certainly deserved something from the game and we were bemused by the decision to disallow Shane Killock’s goal.

“But there were plenty of positives to take from Saturday into tonight’s game against Altrincham.”

The hosts are in the relegation zone but are four points better off than their rock-bottom visitors, so Avenue cannot leapfrog them even with a win.

However, Stalybridge Celtic are sandwiched between the two and have no game this evening so Bradford would be off the basement with a win.

Elsewhere, in the Toolstation Northern Counties East League, Thackley will be looking for a home win over Handsworth Parramore to leapfrog neighbouring rivals Liversedge into second place in the Premier Division.

Sedge are sidetracked tonight as they host Clipstone in a League Cup third round tie that is a re-match after the clubs met at Clayborn in the league at the weekend. Sedge sneaked a close game 1-0 to bank the points from that clash.

In Division One, Eccleshill United will be looking to bounce back from a poor performance at the weekend that saw them slump to a 2-1 home defeat. The Eagles travel to basement outfit Nostell MW.