League Two Round-Up: Tuesday 29/12/2015

With Notts' boxing day game at Hartlpool being postponed it needed two goals from Izale McLeod in Mondays comeback against Morecambe to salvage a 2–2 draw and just one point from a possible 6 in the weekend fixtures for the Magpies.

Notts remain 15th and still 7 points off a play-off place and with a game in hand over most teams but the safety margin from a relegation place has shortened to 14 points.

League Two Results Monday 28/12/15

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

Today there were 4 home wins, 3 away wins and 4 draws.

League Two Results Saturday 26/12/15

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

On Saturday there were 5 home wins, 2 away wins, 1 draw and 4 postponed games.

League Two update

Plymouth won both their games and remain top with 49 points from 24 games while Northampton having had their game against York on Saturday postponed but beating Accrington on Monday go back into 2nd place with 46 points from 23 games.

Oxford were held to a goalless draw away at Yeovil on Monday having beaten Exeter 3–0 at home on Saturday but still drop to 3rd with 45 points from 24 games.

Portsmouth stay 4th with 41 points from 24 games.

Wycombe's two weekend wins lift them from 9th to 5th with 40 points from 23 games.

Bristol Rovers are at 6th after beating Leyton Orient 2–1 and drawing with Wimbledon also on 40 points but from 24 games and Carlisle occupy the final play off place at 7th with 37 points but from only 22 games.

Accrington are at 8th from 21 games and share 36 points with 9th placed Leyton Orient and 10th placed Cambridge who have both played 24 games.

Mansfield have slipped to 11th with 35 points from 23 games.

Next come Wimbledon at 12th with 33 points, followed by Crawley 13th with 31 points and Luton 14th with 30 points all having played 24 games.

Notts are at 15th and Exeter 16th, also have 30 points from 23 games.

Morecambe at 17th from 22 games are level on 28 points but above 18th placed Barnet who have played 24 games.

Just in the safety area come Stevenage at 19th with 26 points from 24 games and with a 6 point buffer above Newport at 20th from 24 games and Hartlepool at 21st but from only 21 games, both with 20 points.

York are 22nd from 23 games and remain above Dagenham & Redbridge, who've played 24 games, only on goal difference with 16 points.

Yeovil after 24 games sit rock bottom 24th with 14 points.

Upcoming fixtures

There are no midweek League Two fixtures this week.

Notts' next game is at Meadow Lane on Saturday 2nd January 2016 with a 3:00pm kick off when 3rd placed Oxford United are the visitors.