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Good evening. Welcome along to the best from the Football League. With | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
just seven weeks remaining we are shaping up for quite a finish. Last | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
week saw a new face amongst the managerial ranks, with Jose Enrique | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
replacing Chris Powell at Charlton, plus, a definite contender for goal | :00:54. | :01:05. | |
of the season at Gillingham. Not bad for his first goal in professional | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
football. We will be hoping, along with Steve, for a few more gems | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
tonight. Here is what is coming up. With the finishing line insight, | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
Leicester went eight points clear on Tuesday. Today, they were at home to | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
Blackpool. Nottingham Forest had won nine in five, and we will find out | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
how they got on against Doncaster. We have extended highlights from the | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Game of the Day in League One, as Leyton Orient met Brentford. And, | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
can Burton Albion get automatic promotion this season, having got | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
into the play-offs last season? They play AFC Wimbledon. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Championship leaders Leicester would seem to be closing in on a return to | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
the Premier League for the first time in a decade. Today, they | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
welcomed Blackpool to the King Power Stadium. Blackpool ended their 17 | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
game run without a win during the week against Millwall. Commentary | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
from Paul Walker. 15 points clear of third place, surely nothing can stop | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Leicester City in their pursuit of Premier League football. ACPO won | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
for the first time informants in the middle of the week. They are not | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
safe yet. For the third game in a row, Leicester are unchanged. At | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Barnsley in the week, they completed their third successive 3-0 win. | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
Former Blackpool striker is Taylor Fletcher and Kevin Phillips are on | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
the bench. -- strikers. Jack Robinson returns from suspension for | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Blackpool, as Barry Ferguson changes his system, with David Goodwillie up | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
front on his own. In comes the corner, just wide from | :03:09. | :03:26. | |
Bishop. It was a free header. Do not get many chances against teams like | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
Leicester, but that was a big one. Look at how he was left unmarked. | :03:33. | :03:44. | |
That was a great chance. Danger here. Finally! It seemed | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
inevitable, and JB Varney has opened his account. And he has actually put | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
it wide! Everybody in the ground for he had scored. Jamie Vardy actually | :03:59. | :04:16. | |
hit the goal! Jamie Vardy is on-site! How has he missed? He bends | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
his run to absolute perfection. You would expect only one outcome, but | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
he does not score. Throw from Robinson. Goodwillie! Blackpool have | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
taken the lead, against the run of play. And it is David Goodwillie, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
with his first goal since joining Blackpool. The throw from Robinson | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
was speared in. And Goodwillie did really well with the finish. | :04:56. | :05:20. | |
The ball comes in from Halliday. Just wide from Goodwillie. | :05:21. | :05:42. | |
Mahrez has two to aim at. He goes himself! What a goal. That is a | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
wonder strike! It has put Leicester back on terms. Mahrez finds a little | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
bit of room, pulls the trigger, and that is a terrific strike. Matt | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
Gilkes clutches at thin air. Nothing he could do. And the King Power | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Stadium is bouncing, quite literally. | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
And Riyad Mahrez is lining this one up. Anthony Clark is there as well. | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
Straight into the wall. -- Anthony Clark Art. Cross comes in from | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Mahrez, good save. The cross was from Mahrez, David | :06:41. | :06:53. | |
Nugent does well to flick it goalwards. | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
Nugent turns it into Taylor Fletcher. Still going. Just wide. | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
How close can you get?! That was a whisker away. | :07:13. | :07:32. | |
Taylor Fletcher was up there. Anthony Knockaert, a lot of traffic | :07:33. | :08:08. | |
of him. It is in, from Wes Morgan! It is his | :08:09. | :08:23. | |
first goal of the campaign, and surely, it is another goal on the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
way to the Premier League for Leicester! Back post header, Matt | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Gilks could not keep it out. Riyad Mahrez does ever so well, | :08:31. | :08:46. | |
stands up the cross. And Wes Morgan had to stretch those neck muscles to | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
get there. Philips! It is all over. Kevin | :08:48. | :09:08. | |
Phillips has smashed it in. It is a fabulous strike. Kevin Phillips does | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
not celebrate against his former club. | :09:13. | :09:25. | |
Still going strong at 40 years of age. No way back for Blackpool. | :09:26. | :09:43. | |
Drinkwater does ever so well. He comes away with it. Danny | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
Drinkwater! A good interception by the goalkeeper. Phillips was there. | :09:52. | :10:07. | |
I think there was only one side trying to win it, or thought they | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
could win it. But we gave them a bit of a lifeline. Again, it was a game | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
of trying to be patient, and trying to make sure that what we did was to | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
believe in our own brand of football, and the belief that we | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
were better players, and we would come out on top. That was very much | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
it was a wonder goal, which set them on their way. That was | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
disappointing. But after that, we felt sorry for ourselves a wee bit. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
But we have got to move on. We have got to look ahead to the game next | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
weekend. Barry Ferguson clearly went with a game plan to the King Power | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Stadium, and at half-time, Leicester fans might have been thinking, maybe | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
it was working? Yes, obviously, a goal up, and a marvellous one as | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
well, into the bargain. I remember going to Leicester when they were | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
top last time around, I was at Millwall. Little bit like Blackpool, | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
we scored early, and I was not sure that we would see it through. It was | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
that kind of game, we were just waiting for Leicester to go up a | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
gear. And that was the case after they got the equaliser. We have | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
spoken about specific players, Jamie Vardy, Nugent, Drinkwater, but this | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
performance was inspired by an import from France in January, | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
Mahrez, wasn't it? Yes, I think typical of Nigel's signings this | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
year. They have all made an impact. This one has come in and seamlessly | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
taken the place of dire. It was a very important goal because it set | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
them on their way. Very little you could do about that. We saw many | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
different aspects of his game. Pace, getting to the byline, standing the | :11:56. | :12:07. | |
ball up. It was a lovely ball. He knows instinctively what to do in | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
the right areas. Some people pick out the wrong pass, but time and | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
time again today, we saw him doing everything correctly. It extends | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Leicester's huge advantage over the third placed team, so at one point | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
does Nigel Pearson start thinking ahead to next season? We are way | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
past that point. He knows the strength and consistency of his | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
squad. Will be six weeks ago he would have been making plans for | :12:33. | :12:44. | |
next year and the Premiership. Let's find out how the chasing pack got | :12:45. | :12:58. | |
on. Lee Clark clearly got a kick out of that result. Earlier, Sean | :12:59. | :13:14. | |
Dyche's team was playing. Burnley were on the back foot in the first | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
half. Matt Smith provided a fairly routine test for the goalkeeper. | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
Ross MacCormack does not spare many chances like that. The champion's | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
leading scorer made sure his next one would be marked on the | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
scoresheet. It a thumping header. The Clarets were missing the injured | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
Danny Ings. Sam Vokes panic to Jason Pierce into putting the ball into | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
his own net. Burnley are back on course to keep their unbeaten home | :13:57. | :14:09. | |
record on tax -- intact. It proved to Sean Dyche that his promotion | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
chances are made of stern stuff. I said that to the players afterwards, | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
sometimes that mentality is a vital component. We have got a fantastic | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
manager and I thought Sean has done a fantastic job here and he has got | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
a group of people all going in the same direction and it is what we are | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
trying to do at Leeds, get a group together, which is challenging at | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
the top end. If winning at home is the foundation of success, then | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Reding's run of four blanks explain how they have dropped out of the | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
play-offs. The prospect of a festival of goals were not good. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
That first miss was a warning sign. Gareth McCleary was Redding's | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
constant source of danger. The reaction of Adam Le Fondre said it | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
all. Jamie Ward set up Patrick Bamford, but the goalkeeper proved | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
his value. It was not for lack of trying that Redding failed to take | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
up all three points. Next to benefit from the McLeary production line was | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
Blackman. It was off target. Still the chances kept coming in the final | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
minutes. Adam Le Fondre put the ball in the net at last, but he knew like | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
the referee it got there with his hand on his head,. We have got the | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
first or second highest goal-scorers at home which is important and we | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
demonstrated some good chances, but they did not end up in the back of | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
the net. They had a couple of chapters, but we had quite a few | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
before that. Both managers are scratching our heads wondering why | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
it was 0-0. This game was a celebration of the life of Alex | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
Stocker who led Yeovil to the fifth round. Gary Johnson felt hard done | :16:35. | :16:51. | |
by. Although Morrison might prove a decisive acquisition for the Hoops, | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
he was in the mood for goals again. It was a terrific opener. But Yeovil | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
have guts and they lost just one in six. Thom Lawrence nearly found the | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
top corner. Dream was a mere spectator. Sit back and enjoy the | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
technique of Jermaine Genius. It would have been a wonderful second | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
goal. The second came 20 minutes from time. Bobby Zamora's long wait | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
was finally over. His first goal in 13 months. Morrison was the star | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
turn, so it was fitting he should finish things off. A composed strike | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
rounded off a goalless week. We had the first 20 minutes and if the | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
referee had allowed as the goal, which we did not think was a | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
problem, but if the goalie slips over and it hits him, that is it in | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
my book and we played on. People tried to make something out of | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
nothing. We are back to third now. We got rid of 18 players at the | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
start of the year. Wigan had won their last seven in all | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
competitions. They arrived at Portman Road looking to extend that | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
highly impressive record, but they fell behind to an Ipswich side with | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
their own aspirations. Tommy Smith reacted quickest to the loose ball. | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
Once again they failed to hold onto the lead and James Maclean brought | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
the Latics back into the match, his first league goal for the club. Look | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
I am should have made more of this chance. It was wasteful in the | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
extreme. Leon Barnett put Wigan in front for the first time with an | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
unchallenged header. Maclean ensured they moved into the top six. Marc | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
Antoine Fortune must take much of the credit. They guaranteed the | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
winning run continued. Thanks to the players we did a very professional | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
job today. We did a game plan and we knew what we would face today and | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
they coped very well with it. We had some very good counter attacks. The | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
first goal and the third goal was an example of how we wanted to attack | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
today. We contributed to their goals, but there are clinical enough | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
to punish us. Unbeaten in five Bolton's recent record suggested | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
they could steal Brighton's play-off push. Stephen Ward who scored on | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
Tuesday's success, gave the goalkeeper a momentary scare. The | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
goalkeeper did well to keep out Will Buckley, but only the first time. | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
The Seagulls were soon thankful for the agility of Tom Krul shack. This | :20:23. | :20:38. | |
was much more frustrating for Bolton. In the second half the home | :20:39. | :20:48. | |
team eventually found a way through. Joe Mason got the final touch. Only | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
for the linesman to have the final say. Oscar Garcia men seem to have | :20:55. | :21:08. | |
been lifted. This was a team hitting form while others are faltering. | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
They changed the system a little bit as well and played a different | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
system against us and we are pleased and we took our goals well and are | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
pleased with the result. It was a game of chapters. There was an | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
offside which was clearly not offside. Brighton coming out on top | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
with their 17th clean sheet of the season. But we saw two good wins for | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
sites that have found their group. It was a good win for Burnley. We | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
know about the injury to Danny Ings. Scott are fields scored. It was his | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
sixth goal. More importantly the ones that he scores are vitally | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
important for them. That is a massive psychological boost. We know | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
they are not a one-man team, but he is a massive and integral part of | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
the site. In so many tight games he has made the difference. But he has | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
only been missing two times this season. Just to know that they can | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
play with out him and they can come back from a tough situation against | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
a team who have taken the lead against them. They handled that and | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
came through it. What a season it is planning out for Wigan. Juggling the | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
Europa League would have been a bit of a nightmare. They have now won | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
the last seven in a row. It is a sensational run. Yes, it is | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
fantastic. As soon as they get an opportunity they are in a position | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
to punish you. There is real quality in that side. The players that have | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
left, they got money from them, but we know they have spent well on new | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
players. It goes to show that the job he left behind at Brentford, it | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
shows he has got one of the best scouts of the season. We felt like | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
he got it wrong a little bit and the system was not quite right. But that | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
is the only time he has got it wrong in his managerial career. He has | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
been brilliant at Brentford and is taking it to another level at Wigan. | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
Nottingham Forest rode their luck on Tuesday with a disputed 80th minute | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
equaliser, and they earned a precious point against | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Middlesbrough. On Saturday Doncaster arrived at the City Ground boosted | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
by back-to-back wins. It would have been amazing if he had | :23:55. | :24:40. | |
scored. It was not a bad strike, but it was always going wide. That was a | :24:41. | :25:12. | |
good save. It was off the line. Then it was allowed to run through and | :25:13. | :25:27. | |
then it was finally cleared. You got the feeling nobody was ever going to | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
be able to force it through. Andy Reid tries to bring some semblance | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
of order to proceedings. It is not a penalty, he has given it right on | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
the edge. I consider he is a little bit lucky. For the third game | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
running he has put a header six inches over the crossbar. It was a | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
chance for him to enhance his reputation. Again a goal kick and | :26:08. | :26:20. | |
Doncaster Rovers protesting that should have had a corner. It is a | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
rare opening for Mark Duffy. That was well smothered by Darlow. | :26:25. | :26:45. | |
Duffy did well. That was a lovely free kick from | :26:46. | :27:12. | |
Cotterell. The save is made by Darlow. Clever | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
little ball from Billy Sharp. Hit it well. Darlow reacted perfectly. | :27:20. | :27:29. | |
Into the path of Paterson. Three red ahead of Paterson. They are joined | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
by Majewski. Here is Majewski! It's a fine save. A good shot from | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
Majewski and equally fine stop from Johnstone. The goalkeeper is saying, | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
why on earth did you let him have such clear view of the net? As much | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
as I'm delighted with the points some of the chances we had I'm | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
disappointed we have not got all three. You say to yourself, can be | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
Forest are a top team, especially at home. It's one of football's | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
unwritten laws, expect a former star player to shine when he returns. How | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
surprised were Huddersfield when Jordan Rhodes opened the scoring | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
after four minutes. The home supporters were relieved when their | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
side drew level. That was as good as it got for the home side. 1-1 at | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
half-time became 2-1 to Blackburn. You can guess who was on the end of | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
Conway's cross when it arrived. Goal number 19for the season for Jordan | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
Rhodes. Huddersfield goalkeeper Smithies will have nightmares about | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
the next action. Conway will admit his shot was straight at the keeper. | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
The save became anything but straight-forward. That prompted | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
changes by the Huddersfield boss. They paid off almost immediately. | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
James Vaughan's introduction led o to Wells first goal in nine matches. | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
3-2 to Blackburn. All that good work was undone by Clayton's error which | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
presented Rhodes with a second Rovers hat-trick. He wasn't in the | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
mood to race. Sights are still trained on the play-offs. A fair | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
fairytale to come back to his old club, be the captain and score three | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
great goals. The second worst defence in the division had Watford | :29:34. | :29:42. | |
licking their lips. A gem shot from this. Only five minutes on the | :29:43. | :29:50. | |
clock. Barnsley's defence offered feeble resistance. This interception | :29:51. | :29:59. | |
had the alarm bells ringing. Troy Deeney had even more time. That is | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
his 16th league goal and another productive season. The Tuberculosis | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
looked every inch the side heading the wrong way. Possession was gifted | :30:12. | :30:20. | |
to Watford. The calm head belonged to Anya. The goalscorer was Merkel. | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
His first for the Hornets. There was nearly a second German name on the | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
scoresheet. Barnsley's Proschwitz kept out by the crossbar. Watford's | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
seventh cleansheet in the last nine. Nice to bounce back after Tuesday' | :30:38. | :30:50. | |
disappointment. To get a quick start, first 15 minutes to be 2-0 | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
up. It was the perfect start to the game for us really. It was one big | :30:54. | :31:01. | |
talking point in this South Coast meeting. Grabban's disallowed first | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
half goal. Bournemouth's top-scorer took advantage of a mistake by | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
Konstantopoulos to find the Middlesbrough net only o for it to | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
be disallowed. The referee Frederick Graham ruled he fouled the borough | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
keeper. Grabban was left to reflect on what might have been. After the | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
interval, Matt Ritchie did his very best to find a way through. He hit | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
the post. Konstantopoulos produced two truly outstanding saves. The | :31:30. | :31:36. | |
first from Simon Francis. Then, another terrific stop, this time | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
from sur monk as the Teessiders hold out for a point. -- Surman. We were | :31:43. | :31:51. | |
trying to win the game. It was difficult. Middlesbrough's defensive | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
record has been good of late, you can see why. Rigid, defended deep, a | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
lot of men behind the ball. It was difficult to break them down. In the | :32:00. | :32:08. | |
end, it didn't happen for us. Two struggling clubs keen to take their | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
points tally into the 40s at Hillsborough. Birmingham never | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
looked like to make an impact. The dust had barely settled before | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
Lavery was attacking McGuire's corner. Leon Best was left with the | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
simplest tap-in. Not even midway through the first half and Sheffield | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
Wednesday had a healthy advantage. Which became insurmountable after | :32:30. | :32:45. | |
the break. There was time for Lavery to add another cracker. Two | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
memorable goals he hopes will put a smile on his mum's face back in | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
Canada, where she is recovering from an operation. A romp for Wednesday | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
on day when nothing went right for Birmingham, forced with injuries to | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
play out the remaining minutes with 10-men. They pulled one goal back | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
thanks to Novak. Four points above the bottom three that consolation | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
proved little cause for celebration. Didn't look like we had any | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
alreadying levels, we looked flat, didn't play with tempo or intensity. | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
The scoreline suggested that. We have gifted four goals away. | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
Preventible from our point of view. Not a good day on the injury front | :33:31. | :33:38. | |
either. New manager, new hope. That is the Charlton plan. David Forde | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
wasn't playing ball with Jackson's header. Hamer had a scare. Ian | :33:44. | :33:55. | |
Holloway will wonder how his side didn't win from this corner. | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
Charlton though climb off the bottom. I was am coulding here to | :34:01. | :34:08. | |
win. Believe me. Then I won't always win the games. Maybe it's only one | :34:09. | :34:16. | |
point plus another point, but two points and you add three points it | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
can make the difference. A frustrating day for us because we | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
didn't take one of our opportunities we created. I think the game was a | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
very nervous game. I thought it was both teams knew the importance of | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
it. Probably more so us, knowing they have got four games in hand on | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
us. We wanted six points for them to try and claw back. That was one of | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
the games we could have notched off. Goalless at The Den. Hardly the why | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
ideal result for either of those sides. You were there. What did you | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
make of it all? Both these sides have similar records. One in the | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
last ten, one goal in their last five. The game wasn't a major | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
surprise. Both teams low in confidence. Bourne out particularly | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
first half by lack of options for the man on the ball. I think | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
Millwall too many times the ball went forward when it didn't need. To | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
a lot of times Charlton had possession, looked forward and | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
having to go back, no-one was showing. That was evident in the | :35:19. | :35:27. | |
game. Both opted for a change of manager, is it a gamble? Speaking to | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
Charlton fans before the game. They are not quite sure what they are | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
going to get. He made one or two changes. On the day, the way the | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
game was going. They made sense. There is something to go on there. | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
Well done to Jordan Rhodes, a hat-trick for him. It takes him to | :35:43. | :35:52. | |
the 20 goal mark. You expect them to be battling for the play-offs. It | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
shows you his goals have been valuable to get them where they are | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
at the minute? Absolutely. 26, 27 last year. They weren't able to make | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
a mark in the Championship. It will be a case of more of the same this | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
year. It's a little bit of a shame. When you have one like that. That is | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
the hardest onjob for your team, to find someone to put the ball in the | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
back of the net. In the Championship that gets you in the play-offs | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
because you normally most teams are quite even. It's quite tight. You | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
have a match winner there. They have been enable to turn those goals into | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
a play-off push at this stage. Well done to Pepe he turned around | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
Watford. No doubt about the game of the day in League One as second took | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
on third Leyton Orient up against Brentford lying a point behind with | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
two games in hand. Russell Slade made one change. Lisbie came in from | :36:45. | :36:51. | |
Chris Dagnall. Warburton made two changes. Trotter aiming to end a six | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
week goal drought. COMMENTATOR: Mooney wants it. Cox | :36:58. | :37:14. | |
goes on himself. Oh, what a hit! Cox can produce spectacular moments and | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
stunning goals. Nine so far this season. This was not far away from | :37:18. | :37:25. | |
Number Ten. The team everyone said would fall away, fade away, they | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
haven't. A little long. Met by Scott gut Bert to Leyton Orient. James | :37:32. | :37:40. | |
Tarkowski. Yellow card for the centre-back. He had gone before the | :37:41. | :37:49. | |
challenge came flying in. -- the ball had gone before the challenge | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
came flying in. Into Lisbie. A little touch here for Cox! Lovely | :37:55. | :38:05. | |
one-touch football. Lisbie's touch was brilliant. Cox with the drive | :38:06. | :38:18. | |
bye got the best from Button. Forshaw caught. Tempers are flowing | :38:19. | :38:27. | |
over big time. Referee has to step in. Looks to see who is the chief | :38:28. | :38:34. | |
protagonists. Here is that flashpoint again. Sawyer goes in to | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
retrieve the ball. It all kicks off. Trotter, forehad you, Trotter! | :38:40. | :38:57. | |
Bottom corner found. Brentford lead. Trotta took aim. It minds a way past | :38:58. | :39:05. | |
Jakupovic. The Bees have struck first in first half additional time. | :39:06. | :39:12. | |
Trotta, first time. Accuracy unairing. In this three-way fight, | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
Brentford have taken some degree of control. | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
Here's Tarkowski. Yellow card here to Tarkowski. It could be his | :39:26. | :39:34. | |
second. It is his second. The Bees are down to 10. Clumsy. Awkward, | :39:35. | :39:46. | |
Costly. Maybe a major moment here in the game for Brentford. Off balance. | :39:47. | :39:53. | |
He made two fouls since the yellow card. This was well worth a second | :39:54. | :40:00. | |
yellow. He's off. He's gone. He's history. Up goes Mooney, Cox. | :40:01. | :40:10. | |
There's a foul here. By Forshaw this time. | :40:11. | :40:18. | |
Tempers, in the second-half, near or at boiling point. Cox, can make the | :40:19. | :40:27. | |
dead ball sing for him. Up comes Cox, hits the wall. Cox again. | :40:28. | :40:36. | |
James. Here's Nathan Clarke. The Mooney, away from goal by the head | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
of McCormack. The free-kick was blocked away. James back in. | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
McCormack, in the right place, to get this clear, for now at least, | :40:48. | :40:49. | |
for Brentford. Saville, and Saville again. He's | :40:50. | :41:10. | |
gone down. Again, he appeals. The elf are reel decides it's OK. It was | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
a shirt pull in the box that went unpunished. Nathan Clarke on | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
Saville. Look at the contact there. The referee decides no penalty. Greg | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
Dyke, the former Brentford Chairman, now with the FA top job. | :41:32. | :41:41. | |
Mooney, blocked by Dean. Here is Cox, back in looking for Lisbie. | :41:42. | :41:52. | |
Button, with his legs, make as terrific save for Brentford. It | :41:53. | :41:59. | |
stays 1-0, but only just. The best chance of the match. Cox, back | :42:00. | :42:09. | |
across. Too high for Lisbie. O's faces. | :42:10. | :42:22. | |
it is a corner ball. A very cheap corn are given away by the home | :42:23. | :42:39. | |
team. It is kept out somehow, I am not entirely sure how. The | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
goalkeeper got it off his fists. It was just a foot or so wide of the | :42:46. | :43:09. | |
far post from Chris Dagnall. A rare chance later in the day. McCormick | :43:10. | :43:23. | |
on the line away. Leyton Orient cannot find a way through as yet. | :43:24. | :43:36. | |
The appeals are long and loud. The referee is unconvinced. It was a | :43:37. | :43:44. | |
tangle. Alan Judge, against the post. Alan | :43:45. | :44:09. | |
Judge could have sealed the deal. And the whistle goes. That was | :44:10. | :44:19. | |
massive for Brentford. They overtake Leyton Orient and have two games in | :44:20. | :44:27. | |
hand. A London derby, East versus West, second versus third, but the | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
boys were aware of the importance of the match. It has gone and we are | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
disappointed with the result. But it is not finished here. They | :44:40. | :44:42. | |
celebrated like they won the FA Cup, but it is not finished. | :44:43. | :44:50. | |
Was it over exuberance in their celebrations? It was a big game. But | :44:51. | :45:00. | |
they will feel that they justly earned the right. It was a huge win. | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
It was massive, it puts them in the driving seat. It is a fantastic win. | :45:07. | :45:13. | |
Particularly with ten men. Let's have a look at two contentious | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
issues. Both sides had a shout for a penalty. , yes I think that one is. | :45:20. | :45:27. | |
Nathan Clarke has got his hands on George Savile. He almost spins him | :45:28. | :45:35. | |
around. It is a good tackle for me. I know there are bodies and legs | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
everywhere, but George Savile manoeuvres himself around. He gets | :45:42. | :45:50. | |
the ball. They managed to clear. I think the referee was in the perfect | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
position and he made the right decision. Are Brentford there to | :45:55. | :46:05. | |
stay? They are still in the seat. League leaders Wolves game for a | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
10th consecutive win at home to struggling Shrews buried. | :46:11. | :46:26. | |
David McAllister was inches away from connecting with a cross. They | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
threatened to throw the form book out of the window. Early in the | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
second half the Shrews went close again. But it was Wolves who bossed | :46:38. | :46:47. | |
the last half hour. They threatened to extend their impressive league | :46:48. | :46:58. | |
run of nine consecutive victories. The Shrewsbury keeper got there just | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
ahead of Leon client. It was a frustrating day and their site was | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
excellent and they caused as a lot of problems. We did not have our | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
shooting boots on today. Although we are not happy with it, we will take | :47:14. | :47:21. | |
our point and move on. Coming and play against a side like that, I | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
think it is a good point. To come here and get the point where we are | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
and where they are, it is a good result for us. Walsall started like | :47:32. | :47:39. | |
a side desperate to keep their hopes alive against Rotherham. The | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
Saddlers opened the scoring. You would not have thought the Chelsea | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
Loney would have failed to find the net. But they were having an off day | :47:50. | :48:00. | |
in front of goal. But the home side cause was aided when an opposite | :48:01. | :48:09. | |
player was sent off. Now with a man advantage, the masters of the late | :48:10. | :48:23. | |
show grabbed a point. They extended their unbeaten run to 12 matches. | :48:24. | :48:31. | |
Peterborough made the short trip to MK Dons for a game of real | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
significance. Only three points separated the clubs. It is his goals | :48:36. | :48:56. | |
that have kept the team in the top six. The Porsche were sent on their | :48:57. | :49:08. | |
way to a vital victory. Minutes later he had a second from the | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
penalty spot. Connor Washington was brought down inside the area. It was | :49:14. | :49:21. | |
left to Peterborough's leading scorer to secure the victory. He has | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
now hit 27 in all competitions. The home side response saw McLeod go | :49:27. | :49:39. | |
close. Good, professional performers. A thoroughly deserved | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
victory. We felt we should have won by more. But to go away from home | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
with a clean sheet and two goals, it was a fresh performance. They were | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
on the front foot and they had players who could take their chances | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
when they came along. Bristol City and Swindon produced five goals and | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
some terrific entertainment when they met in September. But after | :50:05. | :50:12. | |
Thomas hit the upright for Bristol Suttie and then Cunningham fired the | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
loose ball wide, this game failed to catch fire. Bristol City were | :50:18. | :50:21. | |
chasing a fourth consecutive league win but were unable to take | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
advantage of Swindon being reduced to ten men. The dismissal of | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
Prichard for a push on Wade Elliott brought the first red card of his | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
young career. His side has just picked up four points in the last | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
seven matches. We deserve the three points today. Nice to get a clean | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
sheet. We did not score against Sheffield United and we have not | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
scored today when we deserved to. That extensive Bristol City's | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
unbeaten run. It will be a frustrating into the campaign for | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
the Robins. For Peterborough they are back to winning ways after a | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
week to forget for Darren Ferguson. Two more goals from this man. It was | :51:09. | :51:17. | |
a big win. It was. They are only dashed the only ones in the top six | :51:18. | :51:23. | |
who are vulnerable. If they win a game in hand and they are nine | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
clear, there is only one fly in the ointment for them and that is | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
Sheffield United. The way they are going... You would not bet against | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
them. Wolves versus Shrewsbury was the coupon buster. They were | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
predicting how many goals they would get that Molyneux. It never ever | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
works out like that. They set out with a game plan to make themselves | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
tough to beat and that is what they were. That was a for all of us. It | :51:57. | :52:02. | |
gives them great hope, Shrews buried. If you go to Wolves and feel | :52:03. | :52:10. | |
you can get a result, that will reinforce the thought that they can | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
go anywhere and they are good enough to get something. Maybe tinker with | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
the formation because of the opposition and maybe it works and it | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
was a way forward for them. We round up the rest of the action starting | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
at Valley Parade as Bradford city met and improving drilling. There is | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
nothing to separate Bradford Angele in the League 1 table and there was | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
nothing to choose between them today. Bradford opened the scoring | :52:40. | :52:47. | |
with Maclean. Phil Parkinson's side were dominating and tried to kill | :52:48. | :52:56. | |
the game off after the break. But the deals hit back. Cody McDonald | :52:57. | :53:16. | |
landed his 14th goal of the season. It was a deserved share of the | :53:17. | :53:25. | |
spoils. Crawley had lost just one of their previous nine in the league. | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
John Gregor's return to management looks to be working out. Jones | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
finished it off. This is called Chester's six successive season in | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
this division, but they are far from safe. -- Colchester. Colchester | :53:43. | :53:57. | |
continued to apply the pressure. Dave Wright and Morrison had efforts | :53:58. | :54:03. | |
on the goal blocked. Defeat leaves them only two points clear of the | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
bottom four. Gary Harkins enjoyed a splendid match in Oldham's midweek | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
defeat at the hands of Rotherham and once again he seemed to be in the | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
mood as he fired his side in front. And he is fired the move on the | :54:19. | :54:26. | |
left. The home keeper Ben Garrett was relieved to make the save. Crew | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
have lost just two of their last games at home. Davies headed a | :54:32. | :54:38. | |
massive equaliser deep into overtime. Carlisle were left | :54:39. | :54:45. | |
frustrated against a Stevenage side also battling to beat the drop. | :54:46. | :54:54. | |
Carlisle saw Lee Miller go agonisingly wide. Stevenage stay in | :54:55. | :55:05. | |
the relegation zone. Carlisle are without a win in five. That was a | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
great performance, I thought we had everything bar the goal. We took the | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
game to the opposition and created loads of chapters, but we could not | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
put the ball in. Notts County manager Shaun Derry described this | :55:25. | :55:27. | |
fixture as one of the most important in the club's history. Tranmere went | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
into the game also in the bottom four. County took the early | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
initiative. Less than quarter of an hour play. Jason Coomber has got the | :55:40. | :55:48. | |
equaliser. You have to go back to April, 2011, for the last time he | :55:49. | :56:02. | |
found the net. It was one more telling contribution on a day of | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
high drama. Taylor gave away a penalty. But the spot kick was | :56:08. | :56:16. | |
saved. They could ill afford this setback. She handed the tone for his | :56:17. | :56:24. | |
earlier error with a set piece special. The free kick was perfectly | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
placed. But county have suffered the most defeat in the league and they | :56:30. | :56:36. | |
were beaten again. Steve Jennings with a wonderful strike. They leave | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
County seven points adrift of safety. | :56:41. | :56:48. | |
Some great goals in what was a huge win for Tranmere. Steve Jennings, | :56:49. | :56:57. | |
what a winner from him. It makes it a bit special when you see a go of | :56:58. | :57:02. | |
that magnitude in a game like that. An extra special strike. It takes | :57:03. | :57:08. | |
them out of the bottom four, but consigned Notts County to the bottom | :57:09. | :57:15. | |
of the lake. For Tranmere, 19goals from the boot | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
of Ryan Lowe, without those goals where would they be? He has been a | :57:21. | :57:26. | |
goalscorer now from... I was going to say broke onto the scene. He was | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
32. One of the top-scorers at the league. He has carried that on. Been | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
fantastic. You will not lose that. He doesn't rely on pace. He has that | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
art, that anticipation of when the ball comes in the box where to be. | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
He will not lose that. Tranmere are up a couple of places. Colchester | :57:46. | :57:51. | |
are on the slide, one win in nine. They have got stage fright in front | :57:52. | :57:56. | |
of goal at the worse possible time. From what we're being told. Two | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
shots in their last game and no shots on target this time. This is | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
the worst part of the season, time of the season. To hit that sort of | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
form. They are half way up the table when we last spoke about them. We | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
say what a good job Joe was doing. I go up to 17th, the position they are | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
in, to say from there downwards you are in real serious problems. It's | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
about mental strength at this point of season, isn't it? Absolutely. | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
It's about having bhaef. Sitting in the dressing room and believing - | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
Have you been in that position? Plenty of times. You look at players | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
and say, I'm with him, I'm with him, I fear for him? No, as a unit, 10 | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
games from the end of the season we can tell whether we are in trouble | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
or we are OK. That is irrelevant on what position you are in. Burton are | :58:50. | :58:56. | |
on track to go one better they went to Saturday's match against | :58:57. | :59:02. | |
Wimbledon one point off the automatic promotion places. Clem | :59:03. | :59:04. | |
takes up the story. Burton Albion have watched other | :59:05. | :59:19. | |
teams follow them out of non-league football. Then bound straight up | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
into League One in consecutive seasons. But, their own recent | :59:24. | :59:29. | |
history suggests they prefer a period of acloy ma advertisation. -- | :59:30. | :59:36. | |
they spent several years bobbing about at the toof the Conference | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
before sealing their place in the Football League in 2009. Having | :59:41. | :59:47. | |
finished fourth last May but losing to brat ford City despite winning | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
the first leg, could this be their breakthrough season. If it is it | :59:53. | :59:58. | |
might come down to a an unusual pre-match ritual. | :59:59. | :00:05. | |
There we go. The Chairman needs to know this is the only time we play | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
is before a game. It's our pre-match ritual. Yeah. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Not good. What have you got? 64. 64! I'd like to think, as bad as I am at | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
darts, I'm all right under pressure. I think I have enough in the locker. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
OK. We are trying to do things properly. The why can't you run a | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
League Two team like a Premier League team? Why can't you aspire to | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
do all the things right, whether it's sport science, the stats on the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
games, whether it is the coaching. You know, why not? The Chairman is | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
brilliant. You know, again we train at St George's Park as well for a | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
League Two club. We aspire for a little bit more. What we have here | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
is almost unique at this level. No debt. It has been a gradual process | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
as I said when we met before, 10 years of Nigel Clough was | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
tremendous. That set the framework to make this club the club it is | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
today. We have a great manager in Gary. First season as a manager. | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
Semi-final play-offs. Looking good. They have a tremendous following. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
That make as big difference in terms of gate receipts. Having got | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
ourselves into a similar position to last year, I feel that the players | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
will not be enough for us as staff and as players. If that is where we | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
end up, it won't be seen as a bad season. We want a little bit more. | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
COMMENTATOR: The Brewers lost two of 20. Wimbledon have a habit of losing | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the first goal. That happened for the 25th time this season when | :02:00. | :02:11. | |
Bennett tripped Dominic Knowles. Kee got his fourth successful penalty of | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
the season. Burton rarely finish teams off. Seven much their last 10 | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
wins have been 1-0. This shot was kept out by Worner. Wornr was a busy | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
man. This free-kick required a are mo than smart save. The drama came | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
when the fourth official showed five additional minutes. That came and | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
went. Frampton hit -- Francomb hit the post. The clock read 90 plus 8 | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
when Francomb's corner fell to Darren Jones. What a time to get his | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
first goal for the club. Burton left feeling very sore. | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
It hurts, doesn't it? Absolutely, it hurts. Absolutely. We have conceded | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
in I think the seven-minutes and 20 seconds when five minutes have gone | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
up on the clock. Disappointed with that. Why not put six minutes on the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
clock. Why not put seven-minutes if that is how long we will play. I | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
will have to get my timer out and see whether I was right or whether I | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
overreacted. Disappointed. You work so hard this season and to be done | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
by a goal in the last kick of the game to stop us taking three points | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
is gut wrenching for us. Hugely frustrating afternoon. The Burton | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
are still there or there abouts for challenging for the top three. You | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
were with him at Cambridge. What do you make of the job he has done | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
considering the players he lost in the summer? I think he has done an | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
excellent job. He turned around the style of play. They were | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
free-scoring last year. All of a sudden you lose three scoring | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
players. We know they don't score as many goals this season. They have | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
tightened up, conceded 16 or 17 less, which enabled them to win | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
games of football. You have to play to the strengths that the players | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
that you have. He has got that. He has had to find out what they are | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
and work to that formula. He has done it very well. He said before | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
today's game he needs six wins out of the last 10 reach the top three. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
I suppose now it's six wins out of the last nine, can they do it? They | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
can do it. He is probably about right. They are three, four, and | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
five points behind. Rochdale have a game in hand. They might be at best | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
four points behind. Goal difference, add another point on top of that. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
They are up against it in a way. If they get that amount of wins, six | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
out of nine, I would imagine that should give them an automatic spot. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
More from League Two now, a 1-1 draw at Wimbledon on Tuesday night kept | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Chesterfield on top of the table. Oxford, who have been slipping up of | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
late, were next up for the spire riots. Chesterfield required a | :05:07. | :05:21. | |
convincing victory to reaffirm their title credentials. The home fans | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
were on their feet. Banks found the net. After three games without a | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
win, just the tonic they required. There was more trouble in store for | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
Oxford. Smalley deemed to have shoved this player to the fall. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Roberts increased the Spireites' advantage. 2-0 is how it stayed | :05:41. | :05:52. | |
until the final 10 minutes. The defend was facing a spell on the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
sidelines after this tackle. Before he finished running the bath. | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
Another Ewes playerser was on his way back to the players room. Oxford | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
finished the match with 8-men's after Mullins departed on a stretch | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
oar. -- stretcher. Roberts scored for them right at the end. | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
Plymouth improving, Scunthorpe unbeaten for a club record 20 games. | :06:32. | :06:43. | |
It made for a quality contest. Sheridan's team chased a fifth win | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
in six. This header was nodded in towards their own-goal. The best | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
chance of a breakthrough came from the home side. Parsons fed off | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
Reid's run. They went close, not once, but twice. Then came the | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
sucker-punch. Nolan's run on cross. Sire De Grugy got his tenth goal of | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
the season with 11 minutes to play. Plymouth's response was immediate. | :07:24. | :07:35. | |
Time was running out the shadows lengthing Plymouth knew their luck | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
was out in the final minute. This shot was deflected into the back of | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
the goal and crept in. Scunthorpe's unbeaten run conditions. -- | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
continues. Go Rochdale boss Keith Hill made four changes after the | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
shock defeat at bottom club Torquay. After this shot was kept out by the | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
keep their promotion prospects looked on the point of taking | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
another knock-back. The side with the best home record in League Two | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
failed to deal with the corn before Mingoia put Stanley in front 18 | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
minutes from time. Rochdale were in trouble again. It looked grim after | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
this close-range finish was ruled out for offside. A tight call. They | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
were to get a slice of luck. This clearance striking Lund and flying | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
into the net. This header came back off Bettinelli and Matthew Lund | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
turned the loose ball home. Portsmouth's defence was all at sea | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
after this shot led them to a comfortable win. Pompey were soon to | :09:00. | :09:12. | |
be breached against as they were given this gift, Sarcevic smashed in | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
the penalty to make it 2-0. The Charlie Taylor did the damage | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
through midfield. After he was denied by Carson, Schumacher should | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
have done better. Let didn't have to wait too long before getting a | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
third. Portsmouth defence failed to deal with the set-piece. Matt got | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
his third goal in as many games in the scramble. They may have lacked | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
substance, but they finished in style. Wallace had this long-range | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
effort. It failed to inspire the comeback. The Fleetwood are now up | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
to fourth. Southend's play-off hopes resulted in 11 win matches. Bury | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
went close. This was 0-0. Scruffy and scrappy. | :10:08. | :10:29. | |
It never got going. They earned and deserved the point today. It's | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
barely Morris than a couple of months since York were worrying | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
about their league future as much as Wycombe. This challenge on Carson | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
allowed Bowman to give their play-off hopes another boost. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Wickham found their feet. Togwell close to a decisive touch on his | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
debut. Just as they were looking forward to the respite of half-time, | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
Carson got the killer blow. York manage claimed to see this match as | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
a chance to guarantee survival. With City now outside the top seven only | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
on goal difference. Craig had the chance to chip away at that. Unable | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
to convert the rebound. Wickham too close to the bottom of comfort. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Togwell's first appearance ended prematurely. Late on Russell Penn | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
pen to ensure an early return to the dressing room. | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Hartlepool signalled their intentions within two minutes of the | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
kick nauf thank to this corner who set up Harewood to score his second | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
goal at Victoria Park. Brad Walker made it 2-0 after 16 minutes. Any | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
thought for Rovers could find a way back disappeared early in the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
second-half when Tony Parkes fouled Harewood and conceded a penalty. | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
Walton made it 3-0. Rovers almost made United pay for creeping | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
complacency late on. Flynneders' legs kept out this header. This | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
follow-up was only just scrambled away. Beardsley peat basically | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Flinders, but not the frame of the goal. That was the closest they came | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
to scoring. Those chances geed up the home side for one final push. | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
James' persistence paid off. They scored through Franks they are now | :12:44. | :12:58. | |
three places off the play-offs. Torquay looked to follow up their | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
shock win over Rochdale, but they could not do it. | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
A late try Brown header was just too high. But it looks desperate now for | :13:10. | :13:23. | |
Torquay. Dagenham's on loan Luke Norris brought the best out of the | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
goalkeeper Barry Roach as the home side enjoyed the best of the opening | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
chapters. A poor clearance was almost spectacularly converted. The | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Daggers have failed to score in six league games this season. The match | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
took a controversial twist. Even Wayne Burnett admitted afterwards | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
they were lucky to get a penalty. But Medy Elito kept a cool head. A | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
cool head with moves to match. Morecambe clearly felt aggrieved by | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
the decision and pressed for an equaliser. Morecambe deserved an | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
equaliser and they got it in the final minute of normal time as Mark | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Hughes knocked in his fourth of the season. It is over two months since | :14:20. | :14:32. | |
Mansfield one on the road. Oliver Palmer scored back in August. Chris | :14:33. | :14:45. | |
Wylde has given the cobbler 's real resolve. There was a straight red | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
card. Darren Carter once scored the winning penalty for Birmingham in | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
the play-off final. The perfect go to man for this job. There could | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
have been a winner. Chris Hackett could not convert the cross. Perhaps | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
two points dropped for Northampton. Northampton are unbeaten in six and | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
still fighting Russell Cox amazingly yet to lose a | :15:17. | :15:28. | |
game since he took charge on Christmas Eve. But one side on the | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
slide is Oxford. Ever since Chris Wilder left it has not quite gone to | :15:36. | :15:47. | |
plan. Lewis has been there long enough to either make him permanent | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
manager or bring someone else in. There is a degree of uncertainty | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
within the club and the players and the players down as a whole because | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
when somebody continues to be a caretaker manager and no decision is | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
being made. You have got Oxford on the slide and south end. But one | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
team that is looking to capitalise is York city. They survived a | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
dramatic final day last season and they are the division's form team of | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
2014 and they have 14 in a row. And for the majority of the season it | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
has been very much a look at the other end of the table. They were in | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
a bit of trouble early on in the season, so it shows how quickly | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
things can turn around in this division. It has coincided with | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
Oxford in sixth and Southend in seventh. All of a sudden it has | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
constituted up and they have given themselves and opportunity. Now they | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
can certainly look upwards. Let's have a look at the tables. | :16:56. | :17:25. | |
The only side in the bottom half to win was Sheffield Wednesday against | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Birmingham. It was a bad day for Notts County. | :17:30. | :17:54. | |
They are seven points adrift of safety. Despite drawing Stevenage | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
dropped back into the relegation zone. There was no change in the | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
automatic promotion places. Fleetwood was the only side in the | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
play-off places to taste victory. None of the clubs in the bottom half | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
managed to win. That is it from us. Match of the day | :18:19. | :18:35. | |
two rounds up the best of the action. Late kick-off returns on | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
Monday at 11:20pm with the best of the footballing action from your | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
region. Thank you very much for your company. Have a great week. Good | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
night. | :18:53. | :19:00. |