{"id":511857,"date":"2019-08-25T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=511857"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:30:54","slug":"efl-league-two-review-matchweek-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/08\/25\/efl-league-two-review-matchweek-5\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL League Two Review: Matchweek 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the fifth edition of our EFL League Two review series for the 2019\/20 season. This week, we take a closer look at Crawley Town&#8217;s comeback against Leyton Orient and Grimsby Town&#8217;s thrashing of Port Vale.<\/p>\n<h2>EFL League Two: Matchweek 5<\/h2>\n<h3>Palmer Haunts Old Side<\/h3>\n<p>Ollie Palmer came back to haunt old side Leyton Orient with a quickfire brace to hand Crawley all three points at the Breyer Group Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Wright&#8217;s stunning effort into the top corner gave the O&#8217;s the lead but they were pegged back just seven minutes later when Nathan Ferguson rattled home a loose ball.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Angol scored from the penalty spot to restore Orient&#8217;s lead just after the break, but substitute Palmer then struck twice in two minutes &#8211; firstly powering his way around the home defence and finishing past Dean Brill and then tapping Reece Grego-Cox&#8217;s cross into an empty net.<\/p>\n<h3>Grimsby Pummel Port Vale<\/h3>\n<p>A fabulous second-half performance from Grimsby saw them score four times to hammer Port Vale 5-2 at home.<\/p>\n<p>David Worrall put the visitors in front before Jordan Cook ensured that the honours were even at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Grimsby then eased ahead early in the second half through goals from Moses Ogbu and Matt Green, but Vale remained in the game and pulled one back via Nathan Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts roared once more though, and two more goals late on from Luke Waterfall and James Hanson secured a big home win for the Mariners.<\/p>\n<h3>How Did We Do?<\/h3>\n<p>Each week, we have a go at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2019\/08\/23\/efl-league-two-preview-matchweek-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicting the league\u2019s results<\/a>. How did we get on this weekend? Results are shown in bold, our predictions in italics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bradford City 0-1 Forest Green Rovers\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Bradford City 2-1 Forest Green Rovers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cambridge United 1-2 Oldham Athletic\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Cambridge United 2-0 Oldham Athletic<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlisle 2-2 Salford City\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Carlisle United 1-0 Salford City<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheltenham Town 2-2 Swindon Town\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Cheltenham Town 2-2 Swindon Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colchester United 1-0 Northampton Town\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Colchester United 1-1 Northampton Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grimsby Town 5-2 Port Vale\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Grimsby Town 0-0 Port Vale<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leyton Orient 2-3 Crawley Town\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;<em> Leyton Orient 2-0 Crawley Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Macclesfield Town 1-0 Scunthorpe United\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Macclesfield Town 1-0 Scunthorpe United<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mansfield Town 0-0 Stevenage\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Mansfield Town 2-0 Stevenage<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Morecambe 2-3 Exeter City\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Morecambe 1-1 Exeter City<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Newport County 1-0 Crewe Alexandra\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <em>Newport County 1-1 Crewe Alexandra<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plymouth Argyle 3-0 Walsall\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;<em> Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Walsall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A couple of correct scores and a few results too, but we&#8217;ll admit we got the Grimsby one all wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Up Next<\/h3>\n<p>All games to take place on Saturday, August 31. <em>3.00pm kick-off unless otherwise stated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crawley Town v Cheltenham Town<\/p>\n<p>Crewe Alexandra v Bradford City<\/p>\n<p>Exeter City v Mansfield Town<\/p>\n<p>Forest Green Rovers v Newport County<\/p>\n<p>Northampton Town v Plymouth Argyle<\/p>\n<p>Oldham Athletic v Colchester United<\/p>\n<p>Port Vale v Cambridge United<\/p>\n<p>Salford City v Leyton Orient<\/p>\n<p>Scunthorpe United v Carlisle United<\/p>\n<p>Stevenage v Macclesfield Town<\/p>\n<p>Swindon Town v Morecambe<\/p>\n<p>Walsall v Grimsby Town<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"KeUELAzoR8JP3VXc0xw0QA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1093148404\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'KeUELAzoR8JP3VXc0xw0QA',sig:'PJlPRfmv2MVH_LzdrmS0M8VjmsYH9x61CiPpTLbdyMM=',w:'594px',h:'332px',items:'1093148404',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the fifth edition of our EFL League Two review series for the 2019\/20 season. This week, we take a closer look at Crawley Town&#8217;s comeback against Leyton Orient and Grimsby Town&#8217;s thrashing of Port Vale. EFL League Two: Matchweek 5 Palmer Haunts Old Side Ollie Palmer came back to haunt old side Leyton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":511861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[3005,168,2670,520,1345,509,136],"class_list":["post-511857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-crawley-town","tag-efl","tag-grimsby-town","tag-league-two","tag-leyton-orient","tag-port-vale","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}