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          2017-18 English League Two, Regular Season
          Port Vale Port Vale VALE
          1
          FT
          2
          Crawley Town Crawley Town CRAW
          • Tom Pope (20')
          • Josh Payne (29' PEN)
          • Nathan Smith (82' OG)

          Crawley return to winning ways

          Apr 7, 2018
          • PA Sport

          Crawley came from behind to beat Port Vale 2-1 and record their first victory in two months.
          Nathan Smith's own goal with eight minutes left moved the visitors to within eight points of the play-off places in League Two with four games left.
          Port Vale looked to have opened the scoring in the ninth minute when a Tom Pope header was somehow saved by Crawley goalkeeper Glenn Morris.
          However, Pope did open the scoring in the 20th minute when he turned in a low cross from James Gibbons.
          Vale were well on top until the 29th minute when referee Michael Jones adjudged Smith to have fouled Panutche Camara and pointed to the spot. The home players were furious with the officials but Joshua Payne made no mistake and levelled things up.
          The game seemed destined for a draw, with any sort of flow interrupted by a number of fouls and off-ball altercations.
          But the visitors secured all three points late on when the impressive Lewis Young made a brave foray into Port Vale's box and his perseverance paid off when his cross was turned into his own net by Smith.

          English League Two Standings

          POS Team GP GD PTS
          1 Forest Green Rovers 25 +30 55
          2 Tranmere Rovers 26 +13 48
          3 Newport County 27 +10 44
          4 Sutton United 26 +8 44
          5 Northampton Town 25 +8 42
          6 Swindon Town 25 +9 41
          7 Mansfield Town 25 +4 41
          8 Exeter City 25 +11 40
          9 Salford City 27 +4 37
          10 Port Vale 24 +9 36
          11 Bradford City 26 +3 36
          12 Harrogate Town 24 +3 33
          13 Bristol Rovers 24 -3 33
          14 Leyton Orient 24 +15 32
          15 Crawley Town 25 -6 32
          16 Hartlepool United 26 -12 30
          17 Walsall 26 -6 29
          18 Rochdale 24 -2 28
          19 Stevenage 27 -17 28
          20 Carlisle United 26 -14 27
          21 Barrow 26 -7 26
          22 Colchester United 25 -13 25
          23 Scunthorpe United 27 -27 19
          24 Oldham Athletic 25 -20 18