League Two Round-Up: Weekend Saturday 20/2/2016

The home woes continue for Notts. I wish I could offer some crumbs of comfort. Ah well, life goes on.

Here are the League Two results for the weekend:

Saturday 20th February 2016

Exeter 1–1 Newport
Barnet 1–2 Wimbledon
Bristol Rovers 2–1 Morecombe
Cambridge 3–1 York
Carlisle 1–0 Stevenage
Crawley 1–1 Plymouth
Luton 2–1 Hartlepool
Mansfield 3–2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Northampton 1–0 Wycombe
Notts County 0–1 Leyton Orient
Oxford United 1–2 Accrington
Yeovil 1–1 Portsmouth

Today there were 6 home wins, 3 away wins and 3 draws.

League Two Update

The top four places remain unchanged.

Northampton extend their lead at the head of League Two to 10 points. They now have 70 points after winning 1–0 at home to Wycombe who fall out of the play off places to 8^th on 49 points, while 2^nd placed Plymouth have 60 points and only managed a 1–1 draw at 16^th placed Crawley who are on 38 points.

Oxford United stay 3^rd on 55 points despite losing 2–1 at home to 4^th placed Accrington who are close to within 3 points of automatic promotion with 52 points and also have two games in hand.

Mansfield climb to 5^th on 51 points after coming back from a goal down and hanging on to beat bottom placed Dagenham & Redbridge 3–2. The Daggers are now 5 points adrift in 24^th place and on 20 points.

Bristol Rover's 2–1 home win over Morecambe lifts them to 6^th on 50 points. Morecambe stay 17^th with 36 points.

Portsmouth drop to the final play off place at 7^th after drawing 1–1 at next to the bottom Yeovil who are on 25 points.

Leyton Orient's 1–0 win at Meadow Lane puts them level with Wycombe on 49 points but one place lower at 9^th.

Wimbledon 10^th, Cambridge 11^th and Carlisle at 12^th all won and keep an unchanged league position with 48, 47 and 46 points respectively.

Luton's 2–1 win over Hartlepool lifts them to 13^th on 41 points. Pools stay 21^st with 29 points.

Exeter drop to 14^th on 41 points after drawing 1–1 with 20^th placed Newport on 31 points.

Notts fall to 15^th on 39 points.

All league placings below Notts remain unchanged.

Notts are 10 points away from a play off place.

Notts' cushion from the bottom end has risen to 14 points and still with a game in hand.

Upcoming fixtures

Tuesday 23rd February 2016

Accrington v Notts County
Wimbledon v Carlisle
Barnet v Portsmouth
Exeter v Oxford United
Yeovil v Plymouth
York v Northampton

Notts have two very difficult away games coming up. First at 4^th placed Accrington on Tuesday and then on Saturday at 2^nd placed Plymouth.

Can Notts get anything from these two games and can Notts then win their next home game against bottom club Dagenham & Redbridge?

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