Plymouth 0–1 Burton Albion

🏟️ Home Park

Plymouth’s three-match winning run came to a halt at Home Park as Jack Armer’s 70th-minute goal handed Burton Albion a third win of the season. The first half was goalless. Plymouth had 13 shots to Burton’s 10 and 57% of the ball, but Tom Cleverley’s side could not find a goal. Burton made the decisive moment count, moving onto 12 points. Plymouth remain on 13 points.

⚽ Goals: Jack Armer (70′)

Key Moment: Jack Armer struck with twenty minutes left.

What It Means: Plymouth’s three-match winning run ended; Burton’s third win moves them within a point of Plymouth.

Stockport County 1–0 Peterborough

🏟️ Edgeley Park

Kyle Wootton’s 51st-minute goal was enough for Stockport County to beat Peterborough 1-0 at Edgeley Park. The first half was goalless, and Wootton scored six minutes after the interval. Peterborough had 10 shots to Stockport’s 14 but have scored only four league goals in eight games. Stockport’s fourth win of the season takes them to 13 points, while Peterborough remain stuck on five and winless in six.

Peterborough have been without a manager since Luke Williams left on 19 September.

⚽ Goals: Kyle Wootton (51′)

Key Moment: Wootton broke the deadlock six minutes after the restart.

What It Means: Stockport moved onto 13 points; Peterborough stayed on five, winless in six.

Cambridge United 1–1 AFC Wimbledon

🏟️ Abbey Stadium

Cambridge United extended their unbeaten run to five matches after Zak Bradshaw’s 90+1-minute equaliser rescued a 1-1 draw with AFC Wimbledon at the Abbey Stadium. Jayden Stockley had put Wimbledon ahead after half an hour. Cambridge finished with 18 shots to Wimbledon’s seven and 63% of the ball, and found the moment in the first minute of added time when Bradshaw levelled. AFC Wimbledon are now unbeaten in four themselves. Cambridge move to 13 points; Wimbledon reach 12.

⚽ Goals: Jayden Stockley (30′), Zak Bradshaw (90+1′)

Key Moment: Bradshaw’s injury-time equaliser denied Wimbledon after Stockley’s first-half opener.

What It Means: Cambridge remained unbeaten in five; Wimbledon extended their own unbeaten run to four but were denied at the last.

⭐ Match of the Round: Wycombe 2–2 Reading

🏟️ Adams Park

Danny Ings marked his Wycombe debut with a 90th-minute equaliser as Reading were twice pegged back in a 2-2 draw at Adams Park. Paudie O’Connor put the visitors ahead two minutes after half-time, only for Jayden Wareham to level just after the hour. Jacob Brown restored Reading’s lead with ten minutes remaining, and for a while that looked like the decisive contribution.

Ings, introduced from the bench less than 24 hours after completing his move according to the Bucks Free Press, scored a 90th-minute leveller and keep Wycombe unbeaten in four. Reading led twice and had the game in their hands late on, so will be frustrated not to leave with maximum points; they move to 11. Wycombe move to 10 points, with four draws from eight matches now shaping a useful if not yet convincing start.

Ings, speaking to the Bucks Free Press on 27 September, credited the ball back across for the chance.

“It was a great header back across and I’m happy to get off the mark.”

⚽ Goals: Paudie O’Connor (47′), Jayden Wareham (61′), Jacob Brown (80′), Danny Ings (90′)

Key Moment: Danny Ings’s 90th-minute equaliser rescued a point after Jacob Brown’s 80th-minute goal looked to have won it.

What It Means: Wycombe’s unbeaten run extends to four; Reading move to 11 points and will rue the late leveller.

⭐ Player of the Week: Danny Ings (Wycombe)

Danny Ings needed only one appearance to introduce himself at Adams Park, coming off the bench to score a 90th-minute equaliser against Reading. His penalty-box instinct was exactly what Wycombe required after Reading took a late lead. It was only a point, but his arrival gives Wycombe another option in tight games.

🎯 Goal of the Week

Danny Ings (Wycombe) vs Reading — A 90th-minute debut goal, set up by a header back across. It denied the visitors a late win and changed the complexion of Wycombe’s week.

💪 Performance of the Week

Burton Albion‘s 1-0 against Plymouth — Jack Armer’s 70th-minute goal decided a tight game at Home Park and ended Plymouth’s three-match winning run. Burton moved onto 12 points.

In the Spotlight

Vacant Peterborough United post (Peterborough) — Just four league goals in eight matches and a fifth defeat of the season have sharpened the focus on Peterborough’s next appointment. The new manager inherits a side winless in six and stuck on five points from eight games, with attacking improvement the first job.

⚽ League One Top Scorers

👀 Key Fixtures Next Week

• Burton Albion vs Huddersfield (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)
• Leyton Orient vs Plymouth (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)
• AFC Wimbledon vs Stevenage (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)
• Reading vs Bradford (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)
• Bromley vs Wycombe (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)
• Wigan vs Mansfield Town (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)
• Peterborough vs Notts County (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)
• Sheffield Wednesday vs Cambridge United (Sat 03 Oct 15:00)

🔮 Predictions Review

Correct Results: 1/4

Model Record: 29/75 (38.7%) this season

Best Call: The model’s best call was Stockport County’s 1-0 home win over Peterborough, taken with 66.9% confidence.

Worst Call: The biggest miss was Plymouth, where the model gave a 58.4% home win but Burton Albion won 1-0.

The model leaned heavily on home sides this week, and only its most confident pick came through; the away call and the 45% home call fell to draws, and the 58% Plymouth call fell to an away win.

📚 Five Things We Learned

1. Danny Ings wasted no time at Wycombe, scoring a 90th-minute equaliser on debut.
2. Plymouth’s three-match winning run ended at Home Park, where a single Jack Armer goal was enough.
3. Stockport County found a way without being spectacular; Kyle Wootton’s 51st-minute goal was enough.
4. Peterborough’s four goals in eight games is the lowest tally of any club in the division; whoever takes the job must solve a side that has scored four in eight.
5. With eight fixtures outstanding — five not yet rescheduled, three set for 27 October, 3 November and 15 December — this round cannot yet be judged; sides such as Bradford and Sheffield Wednesday have still to shape the gameweek.