{"id":2153,"date":"2016-09-04T17:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:48:21","slug":"football-league-thoughts-afc-wimbledon-claim-first-win-luton-top-league-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/2016\/09\/04\/football-league-thoughts-afc-wimbledon-claim-first-win-luton-top-league-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Football League your thoughts: AFC Wimbledon claim first win, Luton top League Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>There\u2019s a new leader of the nascent League Two table, as <strong>Luton Town<\/strong> top the division after Danny Hylton helped himself to a hat-trick in a 4-1 win over <strong>Wycombe Wanderers<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/blog\/2016\/sep\/03\/football-league-your-thoughts-afc-wimbledon-claim-first-win-luton-top-league-two\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardian.png\" alt=\"Powered by Guardian.co.uk\" width=\"140\" height=\"45\" \/>This article titled &#8220;Football League your thoughts: AFC Wimbledon claim first win, Luton top League Two&#8221; was written by Nick Miller, for theguardian.com on Saturday 3rd September 2016 16.58 UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>League One<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s as you were at the top of League One as the leaders were held to draws on Saturday afternoon. <strong>Bolton<\/strong> came back against <strong>Southend<\/strong> to earn a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2016\/sep\/03\/bolton-wanderers-southend-united-league-one-match-report\">1-1 draw<\/a> at the Macron Stadium, Keshi Anderson levelling just after the break, while <strong>Bradford<\/strong> were pegged back by <strong>Millwall<\/strong> after taking a first-half lead, Joe Martin making it 1-1 at The Den. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail\">\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2016\/sep\/03\/bolton-wanderers-southend-united-league-one-match-report\">Keshi Anderson scores on debut but Bolton are held by Southend<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Fleetwood<\/strong> moved up to third after a 2-0 win over beleaguered <strong>Coventry<\/strong>, the Burnley loanee Chris Long and Martyn Woolford scoring the goals to send Tony Mowbray\u2019s side second bottom in the table, having not won any of their first six games of the season. They\u2019re only kept off the foot by <strong>Rochdale,<\/strong> who lost 1-0 to <strong>Oxford United<\/strong> thanks to a late Liam Sercombe strike. <\/p>\n<p>In the early game, <strong>Peterborough<\/strong> moved into the play-off places after playing out an entertaining 2-2 draw with <strong>Swindon<\/strong>, Posh twice taking the lead through Gwion Edwards and a Marcus Maddison penalty, but were twice pegged back, through Michael Doughty from the spot and a Jack Baldwin own goal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-image\" data-media-id=\"79b2edfab6463999e94adc416493cec7fe3339c4\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/79b2edfab6463999e94adc416493cec7fe3339c4\/25_57_1760_1056\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"Peterborough\u2019s Jack Baldwin reacts after his own goal against Swindon.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"gu-image\" \/><figcaption> <span class=\"element-image__caption\">Peterborough\u2019s Jack Baldwin reacts after his own goal against Swindon.<\/span> <span class=\"element-image__credit\">Photograph: Alan Walter\/Reuters<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Bury<\/strong> battled through the elements to secure a 4-1 win over <strong>Port Vale<\/strong> at a rainy Gigg Lane, where James Vaughan bagged a brace for the Shakers. <strong>Oldham<\/strong> fell to their second defeat of the season, 3-2 against <strong>Shrewsbury<\/strong>, while <strong>AFC Wimbledon<\/strong> gained their first win in League One and clambered out of the bottom four, beating <strong>Chesterfield<\/strong> 2-1 thanks to an injury-time winner by Dominic Poleon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/leagueonefootball\/table\">Click here for the full League One table<\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<h2>League Two<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a new leader of the nascent League Two table, as <strong>Luton Town<\/strong> top the division after Danny Hylton helped himself to a hat-trick in a 4-1 win over <strong>Wycombe Wanderers<\/strong>. They leapfrog <strong>Morecambe<\/strong>, who suffered a surprise 2-1 defeat to <strong>Leyton Orient<\/strong>, a deflected Jordan Bowery strike sealing the win and a place in the top seven for the O\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Plymouth<\/strong> moved into the automatic promotion places in dramatic style, a 92nd minute winner from Sonny Bradley snatching a 1-0 win over <strong>Cheltenham<\/strong> at Home Park. <strong>Portsmouth<\/strong> kept pace with the Pilgrims after beating <strong>Crawley Town<\/strong> 3-0, while <strong>Mansfield<\/strong> drew 0-0 with <strong>Cambridge United<\/strong>, the latter bottom of the league and still without a victory this season, the only team in the division not to have won a game.<\/p>\n<p>Two goals on his debut for Nottingham Forest loanee Tyler Walker, one a brilliant overhead kick, helped <strong>Stevenage<\/strong> to a 6-1 rout of <strong>Hartlepool<\/strong>, <strong>Exeter<\/strong> snuck a 3-2 win at <strong>Colchester<\/strong>, while<strong> Blackpool<\/strong> put <strong>Yeovil<\/strong> into the bottom two with a 3-0 victory at Huish Park.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-image\" data-media-id=\"93759bad718cdb3ba46a25e0d407ac50a5a423fb\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/93759bad718cdb3ba46a25e0d407ac50a5a423fb\/0_47_3296_1977\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Walker of Stevenage scores with an acrobatic overhead kick against Hartlepool.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"gu-image\" \/><figcaption> <span class=\"element-image__caption\">Tyler Walker of Stevenage scores with an acrobatic overhead kick against Hartlepool.<\/span> <span class=\"element-image__credit\">Photograph: TGSPhoto\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Doncaster<\/strong> thought they\u2019d grabbed a point at <strong>Crewe<\/strong>, but a late James Jones winner ensured a 2-1 victory for the Alex. An even later Aaron Collins strike stole a 2-2 draw for <strong>Notts County<\/strong> against <strong>Grimsby<\/strong>, while <strong>Carlisle<\/strong> and <strong>Accrington<\/strong> drew 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <strong>Newport<\/strong>\u2019s match with <strong>Barnet<\/strong> was abandoned at half-time due to a waterlogged pitch, chalking John Akinde\u2019s goal after 23 seconds \u2013 the fastest of the season \u2013 from the record books. The game will be replayed with the score reset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/leaguetwofootball\/table\">Click here for the full League Two table<\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>guardian.co.uk &#169; Guardian News &amp; Media Limited 2010<\/p>\n<p>Published via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/open-platform\/news-feed-wordpress-plugin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guardian plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian News Feed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/the-guardian-news-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wordress plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">plugin<\/a> for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- END GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top two in League One both drew, while Stevenage routed Hartlepool in League Two, in part thanks to a brilliant debut by Tyler Walker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10220698900476085_349663338397715":"","twitter_1370559253_1370559253":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[61,259,96,19,262,264,258,272,119,271,120],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-article","tag-blogposts","tag-features","tag-football","tag-football-league","tag-league-one","tag-league-two","tag-nick-miller","tag-sport","tag-sportblog","tag-uk-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}