REGGIE LAMBE
Vadaine Oliver's second-half strike helped 10-man Mansfield to a hard-fought 1-0 win at AFC Wimbledon.
Lambe was an unused substitute in the match.
Robert Taylor saw red for the visitors before the interval but Crewe Alexandra loanee Oliver raced onto a long ball early in the second half to score and Mansfield held on late on.
An early injury to Adebayo Akinfenwa sustained in the fifth minute typified what would be a scrappy, slow and ill-tempered first half.
The first chance of the game fell to Mansfield in the 14th minute when Matt Rhead hit the post following a quickly-taken free-kick as Wimbledon's defense was half-asleep.
However, midway through the first half, the visitors were reduced to 10 men as Taylor lunged at Sammy Moore with a dangerous two-footed tackle.
But it was Mansfield who broke the parity two minutes after the interval, with Oliver racing on to a hopeful direct ball out of the defense before rolling the ball past the Wimbledon goalkeeper James Shea.
The home side found their rhythm after conceding and attacked with greatly fluidity and Dannie Bulman had three great chances but was denied by Dimitar Evtimov or the post as Mansfield clung on.
NAHKI WELLS
Midfielder David Cotterill lit up an otherwise dour SkyBet Championship encounter with a stunning free-kick to earn Birmingham a 1-0 win against Nahki Wells and his Huddersfield Town teammates.
The swerve on Cotterill's 70th-minute effort appeared to deceive Huddersfield keeper Alex Smithies.
Blues striker Clayton Donaldson was fouled on the right edge of the box by Anthony Gerrard and Cotterill stepped up for the set-piece.
Smithies seemed to have the shot covered but as he put his hands up to catch the ball it moved in mid-air.
And as the bamboozled keeper picked the ball out of the net, Cotterill ran half the length of the field to celebrate in front of Birmingham bench.
Wells who came on in the 77th minute and his Huddersfield teammates had not lost at home in seven matches before today.
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