League One & League Two round-up – Huge wins for Doncaster Rovers & Notts County

Huge results occurred at both the bottom end of League One and the top end of League Two on Tuesday night with seven games in action.

Notts County soared into the automatic promotion spots with a narrow win over Gillingham despite numerous attacking absentees.

The bottom of League One saw a shake up as Doncaster, AFC Wimbledon and Northampton all picked up points.

Here is the full round-up of Tuesday night’s League One and League Two action.

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Burton Albion 1-2 Doncaster Rovers

Rovers were off to a flying start with a goal in just the second minute. Skipper Owen Bailey’s dart into the box in the opening minute was unceremoniously halted by Jack Armer’s challenge and Molyneux unerringly found the bottom corner from the penalty spot.

Things got better for Rovers with a second goal after 12 minutes. An angled cross-field pass found Molyneux in acres of space on the right to deliver a low cross that was bundled in by Bailey.

Albion made a triple change at half-time and Tyrese Shade was inches away with an angled shot just two minutes after the restart.

The Albion striker also forced keeper Thimothee Lo-Tutala into a full-length save minutes later as Albion cranked up the pressure.

Concerted second-half pressure eventually told for Albion when Kyran Lofthouse nodded home George Evans’ corner with a quarter of an hour remaining and Jake Beesley thought he had equalised only to be denied by a contentious offside flag from the assistant.

Albion piled forwards late on, but a flurry of late corners failed to yield an equaliser.

Luke Molyneux starred for Doncaster Rovers
(Mike Egerton/PA)

Barnsley 2-2 Northampton Town

After David McGoldrick cancelled out Nesta Guiness-Walker’s opener, substitute Adam Phillips thought he had given his Barnsley side the three points just seconds after coming on – only for Max Dyche to rescue a point for the Cobblers.

It took just three minutes for the away side to take the lead as Guinness-Walker tapped home after Owen Goodman parried Cameron McGeehan’s effort straight into his path.

Both Vimal Yoganathan and Patrick Kelly had good chances to level for the hosts, but it was the veteran McGoldrick who headed in a Scott Banks free-kick to equalise on the half-hour mark.

Just seconds after coming off the bench, Phillips touched home a McGoldrick cross to give his side the lead in the 62nd minute but Dyche capitalised on some suspect defending to level nine minutes later.

Northampton remain second bottom but are now a point off safety, while Barnsley moved up to 14th.

Notts County 1-0 Gillingham

Scott Robertson’s first-half goal saw promotion-chasing Notts County shrug off the absences of influential duo Alassana Jatta and Jodi Jones to beat Gillingham 1-0.

Gareth Ainsworth’s side had made an encouraging start to the game before Robertson’s finish saw them fall behind in the 27th minute.

Tyrese Hall and Maz Kouhyar, County’s Afghanistan international, had already had chances – both created by Nick Tsaroulla – when Robertson threaded the ball home at Glenn Morris’ near post after combining with Ollie Norburn and taking advantage of Seb Palmer-Houlden’s indecision.

Tsaroulla went close to doubling County’s advantage with a curling attempt before Kouhyar followed suit.

Although Palmer-Houlden had earlier threatened for Gillingham, the interval did not curb the hosts’ momentum with Robertson nearly converting a long-range free-kick soon after the restart.

But County were indebted to James Belshaw for making some fine saves, including one to deny substitute Sam Vokes, as Gillingham applied heavy pressure during the closing stages.

Full scores from League One & League Two

Port Vale 0-1 AFC Wimbledon

Barnsley 2-2 Northampton Town

Burton Albion 1-2 Doncaster Rovers

Barnet 1-1 Crewe Alexandra

Bristol Rovers 2-0 Walsall

Harrogate Town 0-1 Swindon Town

Notts County 1-0 Gillingham

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