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The National League title race between Wrexham and Notts County is reaching its critical point with both teams set to break a host of records.
Wrexham, owned by Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, are three points clear in the sole automatic promotion place and have a game in hand.
They could claim a potentially decisive lead with victory in Easter Monday’s meeting at the Racecourse Ground.
Before that top-of-the-table clash, both teams are in action on Friday.
Read on as we take a look at their form and how it compares to National League history.
Head to head
The title rivals have lost only two games apiece in the league this season. Wrexham boast 31 wins and seven draws, compared to 29 and 10 for the Magpies.
Prior to Monday’s clash, Wrexham play FC Halifax Town on Friday and Notts County face Wealdstone.
Luke Williams’ men won the first meeting last October 1-0 thanks to a strike from the division’s 40-goal top scorer Macaulay Langstaff, with Wrexham’s other defeat coming against Chesterfield in their third game of the season in August.
Since losing to the Magpies, the Dragons are unbeaten in 28, including an eight-game winning run from December to February and an ongoing sequence of five.
They have dropped only two points at home all season, drawing 2-2 with third-placed Woking in February.
County’s defeats came against Dorking last September and Dagenham & Redbridge in February, with a 25-game unbeaten run in between.
They are unbeaten in 16 away from Meadow Lane, winning 12 and scoring in every game — and at least twice in all but two.
Century club
The pair are on course for a host of National League records.
Wrexham are only the sixth team to reach 100 points in a season and the Magpies are set to become the seventh, with the 105-point record set by Crawley in 2010-11.
Fleetwood got 103 points the following season, while Aldershot in 2007-08, Luton in 2013-14 and Cheltenham in 2015-16 all picked up 101.
Stevenage managed 99 in a 44-game season in 2009-10 and York, Colchester and Runcorn got 95, 94 and 93, respectively, in the 42-game era.
Wrexham’s 105 goals is already a record tally — beating the mark of 103 set by Barnet in 1990-91 and matched by Hereford in 2003-04 and County this term.
The gap from the second-placed Magpies to Woking and Chesterfield is 25 points as the top two dominate to a greater level than ever before.
Sharp shooters
In Langstaff and Paul Mullin, County and Wrexham boast the division’s two most prolific strikers.
Langstaff, 26, has already become only the third player to score 40 goals in a National League season, emulating Ricky Miller’s 2016-17 season for Dover and sitting one behind Paul Culpin’s record of 41 for Nuneaton in 1983-84.
Mullin, 28, still has time to join him, with 34 in the league — including five in his last three games — and has 43 in all competitions after striking nine times in Wrexham’s FA Cup run.
Last week’s hat-trick against Oldham was his fourth of the season, following the 5-0 league wins over Solihull Moors and Maidstone and the Cup tie against Farnborough.
Langstaff scored trebles against Yeovil and Dagenham and has netted two in a game on a further 10 occasions.
