MANAGER Karl Gormley admits it's 'do or die' for Worcester Raiders and their promotion hopes when they host rivals Malvern Town in their top of the table Hellenic League Premier clash at Sixways tomorrow.

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Third placed Raiders are ten points adrift of league leaders Malvern, but have two games in hand on The Hillsiders, who are three points clear of second-placed Cribbs.

Worcester News: Goals: Jordan Murphy (left) is the top scorer in the Hellenic League Premier (15) but Malvern's Lewis Spurrier is not far behind with 11. Who will come out on top in this individual duel?Goals: Jordan Murphy (left) is the top scorer in the Hellenic League Premier (15) but Malvern's Lewis Spurrier is not far behind with 11. Who will come out on top in this individual duel? (Image: JMP/Cliff Williams)

Raiders sit seven away from Cribbs having played the same amount of games, so this is a fixture that Gormley's men have to take all three points from, as only the top two have a chance of going up at the end of the season.

"We have very little room for error now, whoever we are playing.," said Gormley.

"Obviously we have the big one with Malvern on the 27th and we can take three points off them, it's game on for the rest of the season. It's like a cup final for us really.

Worcester News: Worcester Raiders boss has yet to lose to Malvern Town this season as manager. Worcester Raiders boss has yet to lose to Malvern Town this season as manager. (Image: JMP)

"We have played them three times already this season and I think we have been pretty comfortable in all of those games.

"But we aren't stupid, we know the quality they have, they have some cracking players.

"Sooty (Stephen Cleal, co-manager) will have them well organised and Hoops (Lee Hooper, co-manager) will have them ready for battle. It should be a cracking game for the neutral, we cant wait for it.

"We told the lads to take it easy with the turkey and let's see what the 27th brings."

As for Malvern, they sit in pole position.

They have played two more than Cribbs so their lead at the top is still reliant on them losing one of those games in hand to stay at the summit.

With a ten point gap to Raiders, they know avoiding defeat is the minimum requirement.

But Malvern have hopes of winning the title outright and so, they know dropped points harms their chances of doing just that.

So, it's a simple case of keeping the wins coming for Town's co-manager Stephen Cleal.

"Where we are now, it is important we keep building on it," said Cleal

"We are in a stretch of four games away from home and each one has had it's difficulties and now the derby with Raiders comes up and it will be tough.

Worcester News: Malvern Town co-manager Stephen Cleal keen to get one over Worcester Raiders on Tuesday.Malvern Town co-manager Stephen Cleal keen to get one over Worcester Raiders on Tuesday. (Image: Cliff Williams)

"The games don't get any easier but you don't want easy games.

"We want to test ourselves, we want to push ourselves and we want to play the best teams in the league and obviously Raiders are sitting in third place so we know it's going to be tough."

Kick-off tomorrow is at 3PM and the Worcester News will have live updates on the website throughout the afternoon, as well as a match report and reaction from the managers.