EFL round up: Pompey secure title as Bolton slip up
the hosts ahead with nine minutes remaining.
Veteran defender Curtis Davies scored a 71st-minute winner as Cheltenham grabbed a priceless
2-1 win at fellow strugglers Burton, moving the visitors within two points of Albion who remain one place above the drop zone.
Port Vale are still in deep trouble after a 2-1 home defeat to Wycombe, for whom Nigel Lonwijk scored a late winner, and
Cambridge are not certain of safety after they fell 1-0 to Chris Martin’s 87th-minute goal at Bristol Rovers.
Lincoln kept their push for a play-off place alive with a 1-0 at sixth-placed Oxford, Daniel Mandroiu’s 47th-minute penalty separating the teams in a game which saw Dylan Duffy sent off for the visitors late on.
Stockport were crowned League Two champions after a 5-2 win at
Notts County while Forest Green’s seven-year stay in the EFL came to a close due to Colchester’s 2-0 win over Grimsby.
Stockport sealed the title in style with Paddy Madden’s firsthalf hat-trick paving the way for an emphatic win at the County Ground, and they will be joined in League One next season by Mansfield, who held on for a 2-1 home win over Accrington.
Goals from Tom Hopper and
John Akinde set up Colchester’s 2-0 win over Grimsby, which moves the Essex club four points clear of the bottom two and dooms Forest Green to a return to the National League.
Crawley and Barrow remain clinging onto the final two play-off slots after a 1-1 draw at Broadfield Stadium but Walsall moved within a point of the top seven as Danny Johnson scored in the 89th minute to seal a 2-1 win over Swindon.