Currently two points behind Northampton in the table having played two games less, Macclesfield could leapfrog Town if they win Tuesday night's re-arranged game away to Bury.
Then it is back home for the visit of Ian Sampson's men, a home ground where the Silkmen have a perfectly symmetrical record this season, having won four. drawn four and lost four of their twelve league games, scoring eighteen and conceding the same number.