
Nevitt double breathes new life into Tranmere season
Elliott Nevitt came off the bench on Friday night and grabbed a brilliant brace as Tranmere Rovers edged out Mansfield Town 3-2 in a topsy-turvy encounter.
Elliott Nevitt came off the bench on Friday night and grabbed a brilliant brace as Tranmere Rovers edged out Mansfield Town 3-2 in a topsy-turvy encounter.
Another instalment of Friday Night Football awaits Mansfield Town as they face out-of-form Tranmere Rovers on Merseyside.
Tranmere Rovers have embarked on an eight game unbeaten league run during the winter and will look to ensure standards do not slip with the visit of fellow North-West side Rochdale.
Nigel Clough must feel as if a weight has lifted off his shoulders as his Mansfield Town side beat Tranmere Rovers 2-0 to end a winless run of 14 games in all competitions.
Mansfield Town’s winless run dates back to August 14th where they secured their last victory, a 2-1 win over Newport County at the One Call Stadium.
Tranmere Rovers will be aiming to put last season’s play-off disappointment behind them as they get their League Two campaign underway on Saturday.
The Shrimps are close to making it a Lancashire double weekend at Wembley as they have a 2-1 lead over Tranmere heading into the second-leg.
After a wretched opening 45 minutes against strugglers Barrow, Keith Hill changed personnel and formation at half time to great effect as his side kept their automatic promotion hopes alive.
Tranmere play host to Barrow on Saturday with both sides looking for a win to boost their vastly different aims going into the crunch period of the season.
After some personnel and formation tweaks Tranmere bounced back from the Good Friday defeat to Cheltenham and more than matched leaders Cambridge to earn a bank holiday point.
After an encouraging result in midweek, Mansfield Town will be going into this weekend’s fixture full of confidence that they can disrupt the momentum of another promotion-pushing side.
Charlie Wyke has been in fine form this season and will have his and Sunderland’s eyes firmly set on the EFL Trophy as they face a trip to Wembley to take on Tranmere Rovers in the final.
Tranmere were without the league’s second highest goalscorer in James Vaughan on Saturday and they will be hoping for a swift return if the 1-0 defeat to Crawley was anything to go by.
Tranmere Rovers will be eager to make it seven wins on the bounce in all competitions as they welcome a resistant Stevenage to Prenton Park on Tuesday (February 9).
A sixth consecutive win on Saturday helped Tranmere move into the automatic promotion places in League Two after a relatively comfortable 3-1 victory over managerless Port Vale.
Barring a Stevenage thrashing at the hands of Morecambe, circumstances have dictated that Tranmere go into this weekend’s home clash with Port Vale knowing a win will take them into the top three and the automatic promotion place in League 2.
A feature by Chris Stonadge looking at the journey of Newport’s Saikou Janneh, and how he ran Tranmere Rovers ragged as Newport won 1-0.
Newport defeated Tranmere 1-0 at Rodney Parade to go second in League Two, after Tranmere Rovers had a man sent off.
The Stags kick off their league campaign with a home tie against Tranmere Rovers. The amber and blues are unbeaten against Rovers in League Two and they will look to continue that on Saturday.
Scunthorpe United, Southend United, Stevenage and Tranmere Rovers are the next set of teams explored in the lead-up to the EFL League Two 2020/21 season.
Tranmere Rovers secured back-to-back promotions and a return to League One for the first time in 2014 with a 1-0 win over Newport County in the Play-Off final at Wembley.
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