Huddersfield Town 1-4 Mansfield Town (EFL League One) 25.04.2026

Two goals in each half saw Nigel Clough’s Stags’ hopes of a top ten finish in EFL League One, boosted, as they stormed to a 4-1 win away to ninth place Huddersfield Town on Saturday afternoon.

The win moved them within three points of their hosts, with a game in hand, as the push for a highest league finish (last season’s seventeenth place aside) since relegation from the former Division Two (now League One) in the 2002-03 season, and a possible first, top ten finish at this level.

Getting there hasn’t been easy either, the Stags winning fifteen and drawing sixteen of their forty-four outings to date, and currently on a run of, following Saturday’s win, four games unbeaten, with one loss in their last thirteen keeping them in touch with sides above.

Against the hosting Terriers, the Stags led after just fifteen minutes, Lucas Akins finishing off a squared pass at close range from Rhys Oates; that lead was doubled minutes before the interval when Tyler Roberts’ drilled ball across the goal was turned home by opposition centre-half, Murray Wallace.

Shortly after the restart the visiting Stags stretched their advantage to three, Jon Russell playing Regan Hendry into space, Hendry hitting a lovely effort past Nick Tzvanez, who’d replaced Northumberland-born Jak Alnwick (began his career at Newcastle United in the early 2010s) in the home goal at the start of the second period, from fully 25-yards out.

On the hour saw the hosts pull one back through winger Marcus Harness, the former Ipswich Town man striking home past Liam Roberts from outside the area; hopes of comeback though didn’t last long as the visitors restored their three-goal advantage just five minutes later.

On-loan Tottenham Hotspur striker, Oliver Irow, replace Tyler Roberts just before the hour, was booked shortly after for a foul on Sean Roughan, then found himself netting his third goal for the club moments later, Oates again turning provider.

Sending the ball and releasing Irow towards the Terriers goal, the Spurs player proceeded to hit a left-foot effort, in off Tzvanez’s post and nestling in the bottom right corner, to the delight of the visiting support.

The goal deflated the hosts, and Clough’s charges saw out the remainder of the contest, registering another three, vital points in their push for the top ten, a push which continues on Tuesday (28 April) night when they head to sixth bottom, Peterborough United, for their remaining, game in hand.

Victory there moves the Stags into ninth, on goal-difference, ahead of the final day of the season, this coming Saturday (2 May), when League One runners-up, Cardiff City, head to

the One Call Stadium (Huddersfield travel to AFC Wimbledon, Reading host Blackpool, and Wycombe Wanderers welcome Rotherham United).

Mansfield Town: Liam Roberts, Kyle Knoyle, Frazer Blake-Tracy (Elliott Hewitt, 46), Ryan Sweeney (capt), Stephen McLaughlin (Elliot Hartmann, 85), Louis Reed, Lucas Akins, Jon Russell (Nathan Moriah-Welsh, 57), Tyler Roberts (Oliver Irow, 57), Regan Hendry, Rhys Oates.

*Article provided by Peter Mann (Senior Correspondent).

*Main image @mansfieldtownfc another sensational performance from Mansfield on the road.