Shrewsbury Town chief Graham Turner is searching for home comforts tomorrow in a bid as he bids to cement his side’s place in the top three of League Two.

Town entertain a struggling Macclesfield at Greenhous Meadow having won just two of their last 10 fixtures at the Greenhous Meadow.

And Turner knows it is important to start chalking up home points if his side are to maintain their challenge for automatic promotion.

“That’s one thing we’ve got to put right,” said Turner. “We’ve actually found ourselves in a situation where we have more away wins than we do home wins which is not a situation you usually find yourself in.

“There’s nothing obvious that we can see to fix it. We haven’t been able to put our finger as to why but we need to improve.”

Town’s last victory on home soil was a nervy 1-0 win over Stevenage in early February and Turner is expecting a similarly tight encounter when struggling Macclesfield come to town tomorrow.

“We’ve got to be careful against Macclesfield,” he added. “They come here on the back of having shipped seven goals in their last two games so they will want to put that right.

“John Trewick went to watch them on Tuesday night against Burton and so we know what they’re about. Although they lost that game in the end they put Burton under a lot of pressure so it will be a difficult game for us.

“They are capable of coming here and scoring so we will need to be at our best.”

That defeat on Tuesday night was only Macclesfield’s second in their last seven games in a run that has seen them pull eight points clear of the bottom two.

Town are monitoring the fitness of Matt Harrold, Jon Taylor and Danny Taylor, who have been suffering with a sickness bug, but Ian Sharps is expected to play after recovering from illness.

Connor Goldson is definitely out – the young defender has an ankle injury – but Jermaine Grandison comes back into contention after completing his three-match suspension.

Macclesfield, who are 11 points clear of the drop zone, will be without influential captain Paul Morgan, who has broken his arm.

By Alex James