League Two 2021 2022 PlayOffs Mansfield Town Northampton Town

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14 mai 2022

One Call Stadium

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Mansfield take a slender lead into the League Two play-off semi-final second leg at Northampton after holding on for a 2-1 win at the One Call Stadium. Rhys Oates put the ball through the legs of Cobblers keeper Jonny Maxted, in for the suspended Liam Roberts, to give the Stags an early lead. Jordan Bowery then made it two with a tap-in finish at the back post. Ali Koiki's first Cobblers goal ensured they head home on Wednesday with hopes high of turning the tie around. The last time Mansfield reached the fourth division play-off final in 2004, they needed penalties to get past Northampton in the second leg of their semi-final at home after winning the first leg 2-0 at Sixfields.

Before the first-leg meeting, Clough said he expected the Stags to face a Northampton side with "renewed determination" after the "freakish" way they missed out on automatic promotion on the last day of the regular season. The Cobblers won their final game at Barrow but missed out on automatic promotion on goals scored after Bristol Rovers beat Scunthorpe 7-0. In the lead-up to the play-offs, manager Jon Brady said the Cobblers were "not wasting a minute" dwelling on that astonishing near miss as they focus on going straight back up to League One. While Mansfield hit the visitors with two goals in a dominant first half, the Cobblers did well to recover and salvage something from the first leg.

Mansfield Town manager Clough "I'm disappointed we conceded the goal having gone 2-0 up, but we could have then conceded again with the pressure that we were put under in the last half hour of the game.

"We are delighted to have the lead. It's better than a draw, going [to Sixfields] with a 2-2 or a loss.

"We have something to hang on to. You can see with the way they play, they are going to put you under pressure and put a lot of balls into the penalty area. We are going to have to defend well to protect it and certainly play better than we did tonight going forward."

Northampton Town boss Jon Brady "We are very much still in it. "We're looking forward to taking them back to Sixfields, we have been strong at home all season, we were in the ascendancy in the second half and we need to take that into the second leg.

"We acquitted ourselves well in the second half, we were a lot more purposeful in our play and a lot more aggressive in the things we did.

"We had some good entries into the final third and we just spoke at half-time about needing to do the things we have done well all season."