LEAGUE TWO MANSFIELD 2 COLCHESTER 1

AFC WIMB’DON 1 GRIMSBY 0

ETHAN CHISLETT’S second-half strike fired AFC Wimbledon to victory over Grimsby. The visitors’ boss boss Paul Hurst bemoaned a couple of big calls that turned the game. ‘Two big decisions went against us in that first half,’ he said.

GILLINGHAM 0 SALFORD 3

MANAGER Neil Harris conceded Gillingham’s forward players are out of their depth in League Two. ‘We don’t score enough in training and that transforms into games,’ he said. ‘I can’t change personnel.’ Theo Vassell, Ryan Watson and Callum Hendry all scored for Salford in the second half. LUCAS AKINS’S 100th senior goal earned Mansfield a stoppage-time victory over Colchester. Will Swan had earlier cancelled out Alex Newby’s opener for the visitors, whose manager Matt Bloomfield felt his side had been ‘robbed’.

CARLISLE 1 SUTTON 1

CARLISLE boss Paul Simpson was brutally honest in his assessment after his side’s draw with Sutton. ‘I wasn’t happy with what happened,’ he said. Ryan Edmondson opened the scoring on the half-hour mark before Sutton’s Will Randall levelled on the stroke of half time.

HART’POOL 0 STOCKPORT 5

DAVE CHALLINOR believes his Stockport side did not even hit top gear against Hartlepool. ‘We have been better, he said. Two goals from Kyle Wooton did the damage before Paddy Madden, Callum Camps and Will Collar struck.

NORTHAMPTON 0 TRANMERE 0

TRANMERE boss Micky Mellon was disappointed to come away from Sixfields with only a point against promotionchasing Northampton. ‘I think we showed more of what we are about,’ he said. The hosts’ manager Jon Brady said:

‘The margins are very fine and we had a few chances.’

CRAWLEY 2 SWINDON 0

LATE goals from Nick Tsaroulla and Jack Powell gave Matthew Etherington a winning start to his reign as Crawley manager. ‘Hopefully with some continuity we will work our way up the table,’ said Etherington.

LEYTON ORIENT 3 BRADFORD 0

BOSS Richie Wellens, who signed a new deal earlier in the week, was delighted after his Orient side beat Bradford. ‘I always want us to be consistent and carry out what we want to do,’ he said. Charlie Kelman, Tom James and Ruel Sotiriou all scored to restore Orient’s five-point lead at the top.

ROCHDALE 1 HARROGATE 4

SIMON WEAVER called his Harrogate players

‘immense’ as they thrashed Rochdale. The home side took the lead through James Ball, before goals from George Thomson, Luke Armstrong (two) and Sam Folarin secured the win.