Tranmere boost their survival hopes by beating Cheltenham, while Grimsby are in a play-off spot and dent Cambridge’s promotion bid.
A 94th minute winner from Cameron McJannet in Grimsby’s 2-1 win sees them climb up to 7th in the League Two table, while making it a second home defeat for Cambridge this season.
Cambridge are now just a point ahead of 4th place Salford in the final automatic promotion place with two games to go.
Tranmere’s 3-1 win managed to move four points above the drop zone with two games to go, goals from Nathan Smith (47′), Jayden Joseph (64′) and Omari Patrick (85′) ending a 12-game winless run.
Tranmere’s Pete Wild said to BBC Radio Merseyside: “That puts the pressure back on the people below us and they’re probably looking at the result and going, ‘where have they pulled that from?’.
“It chucks the ball. It’s been us that’s been under pressure for weeks on end and now it chucks the pressure back on them.
“It’s clearly not done yet and we have to go to MK Dons and dust them down and try and get them to go again because it’s going to be a tough ask against a team that can get promoted on Saturday dinnertime.
“I’ve been saying for weeks and I think they’re getting better I think they’re putting snippets together I think they’re getting more confident but until you deliver people will say well actions speak louder than words.
“[It] is very pleasing because we were running out of time weren’t we mate, so to put that together tonight [against Cheltenham], I’m really pleased.
“95% of football is turgid, horrible and minging and we endure some tough days, but we’re all in football for that 5% and that [win] is one of the 5%.”
Cheltenham’s Steve Cotterill said, as per Gloucestershire Live: “We dominated the first half, much the better team, but we needed to score more than one goal and we spoke about that at half-time.
“We came out for the second half, 30 seconds in we can throw the ball into their half, no screen on our winger, play forward, we throw the ball back and the game changes, ball ends up in the back of our net.
“Game changes. They then had something to fight for. There wasn’t any fight in the first half and we were much the better team, playing some great stuff.
“Then that goal has gone in and we’ve gone into our shell, they’ve got a lift of that and at half-time, they would never have thought they were getting back into that game. They were struggling to get the ball.
“We’ve absolutely shot ourselves in the foot, in that game and that’s what really disappoints me because second half, it was like we couldn’t get ourselves back in it and then we were always going to be susceptible and it looked in the second half like they needed the result more than us. That’s what disappoints me really because why should they need the result more than us.
“Second half, disappointing. First half, absolutely superb – patient, played some great football, we just needed that second goal.
“If we could have got that second goal, we could have got three and four.
“I don’t think the referee helped the game tonight, I thought he was really poor.
“I can’t believe the amount of fouls that he hasn’t seen.
“I just don’t get this grappling, this pulling the shirt, this holding the player. I just don’t get it. How is that not a foul? I am gobsmacked by it. He should never be reffing a game like that.”
Grimsby’s David Artell said, as per the club website: “Yeah, I thought it was two good teams.
“I thought it was a terrific game, a terrific advert for League Two.
“You could see why they’ve only lost once here at home and you can also see why we’re now in a play-off place.
“I thought it was two really good teams playing in their own ways.
“We could have been two or three up in the first half with the one-on-ones and last-ditch blocks.
“But then they’ve had chances as well, they’ve hit the post and probably should have scored before they did.
“It was nip and tuck all the way through.
“When these lads take a wallop on the nose like we did at Chesterfield, they don’t half know how to bounce back,” he said.
“They deserve a huge amount of credit.
“They’ve gone to the well again and got the last drops of water, and they’ve got their rewards in the end.”
On Jackson Smith’s penalty save
The Town stopper played a crucial role with a key save, something Artell credited to the work done behind the scenes.
“It’s the work we do, the processes we do,” he said.
“Scoring penalties, saving penalties – it pays dividends.
“When you’ve done the work and you think that’s where it’s going, you get your rewards, and we got them tonight.”
On a dramatic late winner: “I don’t know whether it’s his chest or his thigh.
“But it’s gone over the line and it’s a goal, and that’s all we’re bothered about really.”
On finishing strong: “We knew they have a tendency to concede late goals.
“And we know that we tend to finish strong.
“So if we were in the game, we knew we’d have a chance.”
On the challenge ahead: “Yeah, of course it’s a big game.
“Tonight was a big game, Saturday will be a big game, and hopefully we’ve got more after that.
“We rest up and go again.”
“We are still in the driving seat but we have to find that killer instinct and win games of football, starting on Saturday.” 💬
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REMAINING FIXTURES:
Thursday 23rd April 2026
8pm Salford City v Bromley
Saturday 25th April 2026
3pm Accrington Stanley v Crawley Town
3pm Barnet v Gillingham
3pm Bristol Rovers v Cheltenham Town
3pm Cambridge United v Barrow
3pm Chesterfield v Crewe Alexandra
3pm Colchester United v Notts County
12.30pm Grimsby Town v Swindon Town
12.30pm Milton Keynes Dons v Tranmere Rovers
3pm Newport County v Oldham Athletic
3pm Shrewsbury Town v Fleetwood Town
3pm Walsall v Harrogate Town
Saturday 2nd May 2026
3pm Barrow v Newport County
3pm Bromley v Walsall
3pm Cheltenham Town v Colchester United
3pm Crawley Town v Salford City
3pm Crewe Alexandra v Cambridge United
3pm Fleetwood Town v Milton Keynes Dons
3pm Gillingham v Shrewsbury Town
3pm Harrogate Town v Barnet
3pm Notts County v Bristol Rovers
3pm Oldham Athletic v Accrington Stanley
3pm Swindon Town v Chesterfield
3pm Tranmere Rovers v Grimsby Town
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