PLAY-OFF FINAL LIVE: Mansfield Town v Port Vale build-up and live blog
The Mansfield Chad’s John Lomas and Mark Duffy will be at the game and you can follow events throughout the afternoon on our live match blog below, which will get under way at 2.30pm, with the match kicking off at 4pm.
In the meantime, we’ll post stories, interviews and any other relevant news about the final on the blog, so keep an eye on it in the build-up to the game. The most recent posts will appear at the top.
PLAY-OFF FINAL LIVE BLOG: Mansfield Town v Port Vale
Key Events
- LATEST: Mansfield 0-2 Port Vale - Stags down to ten men after 35 minutes.
- Stags team: Bishop, McLaughlin, Hewitt, Murphy, Bowery, Hawkins, Perch (c), Quinn, Oates, O’Toole, Longstaff. Subs: Clarke, Maris, Wallace, Stirk, Lapslie, Akins, Stech (GK)
- Port Vale: Stone, Gibbons, Smith, Hall, Benning, Worrall, Garrity, Pett (c), Taylor, Harratt, Wilson. Subs: Covolan, Martin, Charsley, Proctor, Robinson, Amoo, Edmondson.
- Kick-off at Wembley is 4pm
- Thousands of Stags fans have made the journey south
- Match is also live on Sky Sports
Vale have the ball in the net through Harratt but it’s ruled out for offside following a corner.
Stags replace Matty Longstaff with George Maris.
A good spell from Stags which ends with a corner, the ball cleared to McLaughlin whose low shot is wide from the edge of the box.
Vale close to a third as Jake Taylor’s shot from outside the box is past the post. Stags yet to show this half.
Second-half under way
Huge half for Stags who really need to get into Vale here if they’re to have any chance of pulling this back.
HALF-TIME: Mansfield Town 0-2 Port Vale
Well, it couldn’t have gone much worse for Stags, to be honest.
Two poor goals conceded, a red card for Ollie Hawkins and two other defenders now on yellows with Perch and Hewitt also cautioned.
Very close to pulling one back through Oates but Vale equally not far away from a third.
Vale free-kick just outside the box, Perch having been booked for a foul on Garrity - Wilson curls his effort just past the post. Wilson then cuts inside and shoots low at Bishop.