Oxford City remain bottom after defeat to fellow strugglers Woking

Woking eased to a 2-0 win at home to Oxford City to boost their survival hopes and leave their visitors rooted to the foot of the National League.The bottom two clashed at Kingfield Stadium, where a Jayden Luker strike and Lewis Walker’s penalty secured victory for the hosts.Luton loanee Luker opened the scoring with his first senior goal, beating a defender on the edge of the penalty area b

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Idris El Mizouni is Leyton Orient’s matchwinner at Port Vale

Idris El Mizouni piled on the pressure for managerless Port Vale, scoring the only goal in Leyton Orient’s 1-0 win at Vale Park.Valiants goalkeeper Connor Ripley kept the visitors at bay with a string of saves until the 60th minute of this Sky Bet League One contest, when captain El Mizouni raced onto Tom James’ pass to net his first league goal in almost a year.Orient’s win was

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Exeter fightback floors 10-man Peterborough

Exeter staged a rousing comeback to beat the 10 men of promotion-chasing Peterborough 2-1 and ease their League One relegation fears in the process.Posh went in front on 32 minutes when Will Aimson’s clumsy tackle on Ephron Mason-Clark gifted Posh a penalty, which Harrison Burrows stroked home.Jack Aitchison then missed a glorious chance to equalise when Josh Knight’s pass went straigh

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Chesterfield stretch lead to 22 points with win at Dagenham

National League leaders Chesterfield extended their advantage at the top to 22 points with a 2-1 victory at Dagenham & Redbridge.The Spireites, who have lost just once in the league since Nov 21, registered an 11th away win of the season to move within one of equalling the club record set in 1994-95.James Berry put them ahead in the 31st minute with his fourth goal in the last five matches whe

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Sekou Mara brace sets up Liverpool clash for Southampton

Sekou Mara’s first brace in English football fired Southampton to a 3-0 FA Cup replay victory over Watford and a fifth-round meeting with Liverpool.Mara smashed two strikes into the near post to score his fourth and fifth goals of the season.Che Adams added gloss to the victory to take Saints to a 24th game undefeated and set up potentially Jurgen Klopp’s last FA Cup tie before he leav

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Ronan Coughlan and Jayden Stockley fire fighting Fleetwood to another win

Ronan Coughlan and Jayden Stockley were again on target as Fleetwood continued their League One survival mission with a 2-0 win at Bristol Rovers.Coughlan grabbed his second goal in two games and Jayden Stockley his third in three as Charlie Adam’s side claimed a second consecutive victory, leaving them six points from safety.Former Rovers academy player Ryan Broom swung over a deep cross in

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Solihull Moors improve play-off prospects with away win

Solihull Moors boosted their National League play-off push with a 3-1 win at fading Halifax.Alex Whitmore put Moors ahead in the 24th minute with a looping header from Matty Warburton’s corner, and Callum Maycock turned in Mark Beck’s flick five minutes later.The hosts’ first half went from bad to worse as they lost Angelo Cappello to injury and they fell further behind just befo

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Theo Bair continues scoring run as Motherwell hit five past Ross County

Theo Bair scored for a fifth consecutive cinch Premiership game as Motherwell thrashed Ross County 5-0 at Fir Park.The former St Johnstone forward put Motherwell three up with a 38th-minute penalty to make it six goals during his run and eight for the season.Blair Spittal struck two brilliantly-taken goals and both Andy Halliday and Jack Vale hit their first Motherwell goals as the Steelmen record

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Coventry set up FA Cup clash with minnows Maidstone after impressive win

Coventry will host National League South Maidstone in the fifth round of the FA Cup after Callum O’Hare netted a brace in a 4-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday.The fourth-round replay signalled the third meeting between the sides in 17 days, the first of which was marred by racist abuse directed at Sky Blues midfielder Kasey Palmer.Palmer wasted no time in opening the scoring against the Owls b

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Vadaine Oliver own-goal hands Reading victory over Stevenage

Vadaine Oliver’s own-goal condemned promotion-hopefuls Stevenage to a 1-0 defeat against relegation-threatened Reading at The Lamex Stadium.The hosts spent the opening 15 minutes camped in the visitors’ half but Dan Sweeney failed to capitalise, sending a close-range header over the crossbar.Sweeney almost made amends with a delicious delivery into the box before Jamie Reid’s tea

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