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Mansfield Town 1-2 Salford City (Nicky Maynard) | Sky Bet League Two | Tuesday 22nd October 2019 | The One Call Stadium  *The views expressed in this article, are solely those of the writer and not those of their associated organisations* A week or so ago it felt like Mansfield Town were turning a corner, and to be fair for the most part of last night’s match performance wise, the Stags were on the more positive attacking road – alas, the same old mistakes crept in and Salford City were the victors, proving all you need to do to win a game of football, is the basics. Mansfield played some good stuff and absolutely dominated the statistical game, but when the full time whistle blows on the season – stats and data won’t earn promotion or end in relegation, they mean absolutely nothing. John Dempster’s men looked dangerous in transition play but really lacked the luck and cutting edge when it mattered, whilst at the other end a lack of basic action cost two goals – not winning headers or tracking runners costing us the opening goal, and trying to be too clever in removing the danger for the second. We can’t slip into these habits as frequently as we are doing and expect to compete in the top three. We are miles off the mark to where we should be at this stage of the season – you can’t allow the opposition so many free gifts, we need to be winning the games against the sides around us, not handing them the points. Before the month began I said the objective for me would be to go unbeaten, we’ve not managed to do that and now need to beat Walsall comfortably (I mean in control of the game, not like by 6/7 goals) to take some positives from the month, let’s end October on a high rather than get spooked and terrifyingly be at the wrong end of the table! Match recapWith Ryan Sweeney back from his one game suspension he returned to the starting line-up in one of three changes replacing Preston – CJ Hamilton and Willem Tomlinson also missed out, with Alex MacDonald & Andy Cook getting the nod to start.
Click HERE to read the clubs official match report FULL TIME: Mansfield Town 1-2 Salford City | Attendance 4,170 STAGS: [4-3-3] Conrad Logan | Kellan Gordon, Krystian Pearce ©, Ryan Sweeney, Mal Benning | Alex MacDonald (Dapo Afolayan 67), Neal Bishop, Conor Shaughnessy |Otis Khan, Nicky Maynard, Andy Cook Unused Subs: Bobby Oljenik, Alistair Smith, Willem Tomlinson, Matt Preston, CJ Hamilton, Jimmy Knowles Written by | Craig Priest *The views expressed in this article, are solely those of the writer and not those of their associated organisations*
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