Jamie Walker inflicted Crewe’s first defeat of the season to get Bradford back to winning ways in a 1-0 victory at the University of Bradford Stadium.

Boss Mark Hughes had demanded a reaction from his side to last week’s 3-0 loss at Morecambe and dropped captain Richie Smallwood to the bench.

The Bantams claimed their second home win as Walker swept home Kevin McDonald’s cross just before half-time.

It was against the run of play as Crewe had controlled the first half. Bradford goalkeeper Harry Lewis saved well from Rio Adebisi, although referee Darren Drysdale then gave a goal-kick, and pushed away Connor O’Riordan’s flicked header right on the interval.

O’Riordan produced a well-timed challenge to deny Andy Cook his first goal of the season as Bradford upped the tempo to start the second half.

Harvey Davies prevented the home side extending their lead as he spread himself to block Alex Pattison’s burst into the penalty area.

Davies smothered substitute Matt Derbyshire’s shot in the nine minutes of added time and Lewis saved from Joel Tabiner to deny Crewe a late equaliser.

Emile Acquah’s stunning goal rescued a point for Barrow in a 1-1 draw with Wrexham.

The visitors should have led by more than Elliot Lee’s penalty at half time and Acquah made them pay with a fine equaliser early in the second half.

Wrexham’s goal came from the spot after 12 minutes. Ollie Palmer was fouled by Tyrell Warren and the visitors’ leading scorer Lee stroked the resulting penalty down the middle for his fifth goal of the season.

Wrexham had already gone close through Will Boyle’s header, which was well saved by Paul Farman, and Jake Bickerstaff, who saw his shot blocked by the keeper’s foot after the midfielder had slipped him in.

In a dominant first half for the Dragons, Farman got a firm hand to Palmer’s lobbed shot and a further chance went begging when Boyle nodded across the face of goal, with Palmer and Bickerstaff inches away from converting.

Barrow struggled to create anything going forward and it took until the 44th minute for their first effort on goal, which came through Warren’s wild effort.

The home side started the second half far more purposefully and drew level seven minutes after the restart.

Kian Spence found Acquah 20 yards out and he turned his defender before sending an inch-perfect curling strike into the top corner.

Barrow almost scored a second moments later, but Spence was narrowly wide with a fierce shot as the two teams shared the spoils.

Shaun Whalley inspired Accrington to a 2-1 victory over Salford at the Peninsula Stadium.

First-half goals from Whalley and Josh Andrews put Stanley in command before Ryan Watson’s late penalty halved the deficit.

Whalley had the first two meaningful efforts of the game. The first was blocked by Theo Vassell and the second was saved by Alex Cairns.

The warning signs were there, and Whalley made them pay in the 24th minute when he found the bottom corner.

The hosts struggled to get into any kind of rhythm and goalkeeper Cairns had to be on hand to deny Whalley and Kelvin Mellor.

Salford’s sloppy build-up play from the back was punished just before half-time when Andrews intercepted Liam Shephard’s back-pass to double Stanley’s lead.

Callum Hendry then rattled the bar at the other end.

Stanley’s Brad Hills and Josh Woods missed headed chances to kill the game.

Whalley then fouled Matt Smith and Salford were awarded a penalty that Watson tucked away after 88 minutes but it was too little too late.

Ryan Stirk’s equaliser cancelled out Abo Eisa’s latest thunderbolt as Walsall and Grimsby shared the points in an entertaining 1-1 draw.

Eisa’s fourth goal in three games looked set to give the Mariners victory as he scored from 25 yards for a third straight match but Stirk lashed home from close range late on.

Walsall’s Ross Tierney could have had a hat-trick inside the opening 10 minutes but glanced one header over and had another saved by Jake Eastwood, who also foiled him one-on-one.

An unmarked Oisin McEntee headed Chris Hussey’s corner wide before Eastwood tipped a Tom Knowles shot on to the bar and saved Freddie Draper’s 20-yarder.

Grimsby went ahead with their first real shot in the 52nd minute as Eisa’s 25-yard stunner flew in.

Eisa almost added a similarly spectacular second, his curler grazing the bar, before Saddlers keeper Owen Evans tipped over Danny Rose’s header.

Walsall levelled after 81 minutes as Tierney’s shot dropped for Stirk to lash home from six yards and it stayed 1-1 despite Hussey receiving a second yellow for fouling Toby Mullarkey in time added on.

Jake Young scored four second-half goals as Swindon blew Crawley away with a 6-0 victory at the County Ground.

Dan Kemp and Tyrese Shade also struck as the Robins ran riot against a Crawley side managed by former Swindon boss Scott Lindsey.

Danilo Orsi gave Swindon a massive let-off within 10 minutes as he was given the ball free in the middle of the box, but shot over.

Swindon took the lead after 34 minutes as Young and Kemp exchanged passes on the right, with the latter being slipped in behind to coolly finish across Corey Addai.

Young made it two, two minutes into the second half, when he raced beyond the Crawley defence and tucked the ball away at the near post.

Swindon were flying as after 51 minutes Kemp won the ball high and fed Young to slam home a third goal and he had his hat-trick on the hour mark as he tapped home at the back post.

Young added his fourth after 71 minutes as Tariq Uwakwe crossed to the back post and he leapt up to head home, before Shade converted in stoppage time.

Wrexham’s 5-5 draw with Swindon this weekend continued their remarkable trend for high-scoring games since their takeover by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds.

The actors have brought a Hollywood feel to the club on their rise from the National League, with blockbuster finishes and scorelines to stretch credulity.

Here, the PA news agency looks at Wrexham’s most outlandish storylines in recent seasons.

The end of the 2020-21 season gave a taste of things to come, beating Boreham Wood 3-2 and King’s Lynn 5-3 as they just missed the play-offs. After the takeover they averaged 2.54 total goals per game (scored plus conceded).

A promotion push in 2021-22 saw Wrexham score in all but six of their 54 games in all competitions, with an average of 3.20 total goals in each.

Having finished second behind Stockport, the final heartbreak was delivered in a 5-4 play-off defeat after extra time as Grimsby’s Luke Waterfall scored a 119th-minute winner.

Last season they won the National League with a record 111 points but were pushed by Notts County, whose 117 goals bettered Wrexham by one as both eclipsed Hereford’s previous record of 103.

The goals per game in Wrexham’s fixtures across all competitions – including an FA Cup run in which striker Paul Mullin finished as the competition’s top scorer – increased to 3.64.

It is currently at 5.20 this season – or 6.50 for their four League Two games, where they have both scored and conceded 13 with no other team above 10 in either category.

Of Wrexham’s 152 competitive games since the takeover, almost a quarter (35) have seen five or more goals.

There have been nine, and five this year alone, in which both teams have scored three times or more.

Those include beating relegated Dover 6-5 in March 2022 and Barnet 7-5 in October of that year, while Wrexham have won five and lost only two of the nine.

The latest against Swindon led Reynolds to tweet “So much heart” as both he and McElhenney stressed never to leave a game early, and James Jones and Elliot Lee’s stoppage-time goals to salvage a point added to their record of vital late strikes.

The 11-goal Dover thriller saw Jordan Davies score twice in stoppage time to complete a comeback from 5-2 down, and Mullin’s late penalty saw off Eastleigh 3-2 two weeks later.

They have scored nine and conceded seven goals in the 90th minute and beyond since the takeover – which does not even include Waterfall’s effort for Grimsby.

Even by Hollywood standards, Ben Foster’s short character arc is an unlikely one.

The old hand brought out of retirement for one final mission, former Watford and England goalkeeper Foster produced the highlight of the promotion chase with a stoppage-time penalty save to secure April’s vital win over County.

After 13 league goals conceded already this season, though, the 40-year-old has abruptly and emotionally retired once more.

The EFL’s data provider Opta lists Wrexham with 3.20 expected goals against this season, excluding penalties. They have shipped 10 from those chances, in addition to James Tilley’s spot-kick for AFC Wimbledon and a pair of own goals.

“Sometimes you’ve got to be brutally honest with yourself and admit you can’t really do what you used to do,” Foster said on Instagram.

“I feel like there’s probably been about four or five goals already this season that I should be saving, goals are going in and I’m thinking ‘how haven’t you saved that?'”

Manager Graham Coughlan was pleased with Newport’s reaction after they bounced back from a midweek defeat to claim a 3-0 League Two win at Forest Green.

A dominant away performance from the Exiles began after just 13 seconds when Will Evans caught on to a poor misplaced pass by the hosts and he doubled his tally in the 24th minute.

Newport made it three after 87 minutes through an Adam Lewis penalty, while Forest Green were reduced to 10 men after a straight red card for Sean Robertson at the death.

Following a 4-2 defeat at Crewe last time out, Coughlan said: “The lads were very good today. They took some flak from me in the week after Crewe beat us, but they answered me today.

“Let’s hope we don’t have to go toe-to-toe too often as they’re a good group of lads. It’s about being good every week, it’s about consistency.”

Coughlan reserved some praise for Will Evans following his brace, adding: “At times last year I thought Will got carried away with the plaudits.

“His feet are now firmly on the ground and he’s a lovely kid to work with.”

Having already got a relatively-small squad that can be called upon, the Newport boss said: “I have probably got 15 or 16 players to call upon.

“The difficulty is going to be guiding them through 52 games if we count the cups.”

Newport have scored nine and conceded seven in their opening four league games and Coughlan added: “We must be the most exciting team in the country as there are goals galore in our games.”

Forest Green boss David Horseman said: “It was a ridiculously-slow start which I have said to them that I will take full responsibility and I will apologise to the fans now.

“Clearly what we showed them in terms of how they play and how they go long and direct and play behind, obviously it did not drop and that is my job to teach and show them, so they come prepared.”

Rovers made a triple change at the half-time interval to try to fight back.

Horseman added: “People up to this point have worked their socks off and it was probably a game too far for one or two of them.

“We are all in the same boat, Newport are the same. So, there is no excuses. It was more to try and liven us up and give us a goal threat.”

Regarding Sean Robertson’s red card, Horseman said: “Terrible tackle really and I am really disappointed with that because it is such a lack of discipline.”

Scott Lindsey said police were investigating after Crawley midfielder Ronan Darcy appeared to be hit in the face by Gillingham assistant David Livermore after the end of the match at the Broadfield Stadium.

Livermore, Crawley keeper Corey Addai and Darcy were shown yellow cards by referee Ed Duckworth after the game, which the Gills won 1-0.

When asked to comment about a Crawley player being struck, boss Lindsey said: “I didn’t see it myself but I understand police are investigating.”

Gillingham manager Neil Harris also said he didn’t see the incident but felt it was a case of “handbags”.

An own goal by Crawley defender Harry Ransom five minutes before the break proved the only goal and it continued the Gills’ perfect start to the Sky Bet League Two campaign.

They have now won all four games 1-0 and remain top of league two having not lost to Crawley for nearly 10 years.

The Gills are desperate to make up for their lowest finish in 28 years last season, but Harris thought they were well below their best.

He said: “I thought we were very poor and maybe got something we didn’t deserve.

“I’m trying to manage expectations here but the players won’t let me because they just keep going.”

Lindsey admitted he was desperately disappointed to lose as he felt his men deserved “at least a point”.

Lindsey congratulated his players afterwards as he was “proud” of what they have achieved in such a short space of time.

Crawley wasted a great chance to take an early lead when captain Dom Telford had a penalty saved by Jake Turner, and Lindsey said: “We should have scored for sure but I felt we had enough fuel in the tank to go on and win the game.

“Now I will be seeing how my team will react from a loss. I’m proud of how far we have come.”

Stockport manager Dave Challinor called on his side to play with more confidence following their narrow 1-0 victory over Barrow.

Louie Barry scored the only goal of the game to earn last season’s beaten play-off finalists their first win of this League Two campaign.

Both sides settled into the game slowly and the lack of quality finishing left it 0-0 until Barry struck in the 66th minute.

Challinor said: “Delighted to get three points, we fully deserve it even if we did make hard work of it in terms of opportunities you create.

“I thought first off, although we had two one-on-ones, we were a bit safe and at times looked a bit scared.

“It’s pointless having players in positions and we expect certain things of them if they’re not going to make use of the ball.

“They reacted really well and got finally what we deserved.”

The County boss said poor results at the start of the season could be why players were not taking as many risks.

“I think we played it safe because of the results beforehand, whether people look at things in the news and in the media, they need to get off it if they do,” he said.

“It’s pointless us being able to trust them if they can’t trust themselves.

“You’ve got to play with a confidence that says I know what my strengths are. We’re not asking them to be overly risky, we’re asking them to do what we know they can do.”

Barrow boss Pete Wild was frustrated with a decision not to send off Stockport’s Kyle Knoyle when he caught Courtney Duffus with a high challenge that forced the visiting player off.

“The challenge isn’t malicious but we all know it’s a red card and you need big decisions to go your way at a ground like this and it just hasn’t for us,” Wild said.

“Courtney Duffus is in hospital, it’s an open gash. We’re going to miss him now through no fault of our own and that compounds the frustration.”

There was a debut for youngster Sean Etaluku, who came on as a substitute.

“Sean fully deserved his appearance today,” Wild added.

“It proves that our B team is not just there for talking about but it’s there to be used.”

Morecambe boss Derek Adams gained sweet revenge over his former club Bradford as his youngsters enjoyed a comfortable 3-0 victory at the Mazuma Stadium.

Adams, who was sacked by the Bantams after less than a season in charge in February 2022 before returning for a second spell with the Shrimps, had plenty to smile about.

Michael Mellon scored twice and JJ McKiernan added another in a one-sided clash.

“I was delighted with the way we managed the game,” he said.

“They are one of the favourites to go up this year, as they have been for so many years, but they couldn’t deal with us and the manner of the victory was fantastic.

“I’m delighted for the players because they gave everything. Bradford changed their formation but no matter how they lined up they never caused us problems because we were strong in and out of possession and were tactically very good.

“We have a lot of young players but they have worked really hard and today typified that.

“There’s not too many times you get a victory like we did today. We scored three and could have had four or five.”

Bantams boss Mark Hughes said he had no complaints about the result.

He said: “We never looked like we were going to get any foothold in the game and I’m really surprised because I didn’t see it coming.

“We have done pretty well so far this season but today we didn’t really show any threat and they didn’t really have to work hard for their goals.

“I think 3-0 was the correct scoreline because we were flat and just didn’t do the basics correctly and I’ll have to look closely on what we did and more importantly what we didn’t do.”

Mellon was Morecambe’s star man with two goals.

The on-loan Burnley youngster opened the scoring with a 22nd-minute free-kick that beat the wall and flew into Harry Lewis’s bottom left-hand corner.

The visitors tried to ramp up the pace at the start of the second half with Jacob Bedeau forced into a fine block to deny Tyler Smith, before Morecambe midfielder Eli KIng headed a Richie Smallwood corner inches wide of his own goal.

After surviving the pressure the home side doubled their lead with a well worked second when Mellon turned provider to play in JJ McKiernan who drilled a low shot past Lewis from the edge of the area.

The Shrimps sealed the scoring with their first penalty since March 2022 after Kevin McDonald brought down Jake Taylor and Mellon stepped up to send Lewis the wrong way from the spot to seal a fine win.

MK Dons manager Graham Alexander was delighted with his team’s response to a half-time rallying cry as they staged a late comeback to beat Colchester 3-2 in Sky Bet League Two.

Substitute Matt Dennis fired home in the 10th minute of stoppage time to make it three wins from four for the Dons and move them up to second place in the table.

Ex-Colchester man Alex Gilbey equalised in the 88th minute after Joe Taylor’s brace had cancelled out Mo Eisa’s early opener and put Colchester into the lead.

Alexander was full of praise for the character his side showed, bouncing back from a midweek defeat away at Crawley.

“I take any win, but I think it’s great confidence for the players’ character and personality, which we need to instil and bring out of them,” he said.

“Actually, it’s not instil – it’s there, you can see it in spells. I thought we started the game really well.

“Deservedly 1-0 up and then we just implode for two minutes, which we’ve obviously spoken about before. So that’s something we have to correct.

“I thought we should have come in at half-time in front, but we didn’t and we challenged the players to show the character that’s needed to win a game of football and they’ve done that, so great credit to the players.

“The supporters stayed with us, the fitness of the guys was phenomenal again and we’re delighted with the three points.

“There’s games to win in an easier fashion, without a shadow of a doubt, but the elation – you’ve got to suck that up and sort of add it to your armour because it’s a brilliant way to win.”

Eisa kept up his record of scoring in every league game this season to break the deadlock, glancing home a header from Cameron Norman’s cross in the eighth minute.

Colchester responded immediately, though, as Luton loanee Taylor arrived at the back post to convert from Jayden Fevrier’s cross.

Taylor doubled his tally minutes later to put the hosts ahead, finding the net from Junior Tchamadeu’s delivery to make it four goals for the campaign.

The 20-year-old threatened to seal his hat-trick in the 76th minute, but his shot went high and wide after ex-Colchester captain Tommy Smith gifted him an opportunity.

And it proved to be a costly miss as substitute Ash Hunter played the ball into the path of Gilbey, who found his way between two Colchester defenders and chipped the ball over Owen Goodman to bag the leveller.

The winner came in the 100th minute with Hunter providing the assist again to tee-up Dennis, who took one touch before drilling home from the edge of the area.

Colchester boss Ben Garner felt his team should have been awarded a penalty with the scores level in injury time, when Donell Thomas went down in the area.

“We had opportunities to go further ahead in the game, which we didn’t take,” he said. “I’m also really disappointed with the penalty decision at 2-2.

“It’s a blatant penalty not given. The game goes the other way if that’s the case, but we have to see the game through. We were so young at the end, so young on the pitch.”

Notts County ran out comfortable winners in a 3-1 League Two victory over Doncaster but demanding manager Luke Williams was not fully convinced by their efforts.

A brace from Macauley Langstaff and a Jodi Jones strike had County in total control on their way to a first away win back in the EFL, before Deji Sotona grabbed an added-time consolation for the hosts.

Williams did not believe the scoreline was reflective of the game and said there was much better to come from the Magpies.

“We need to improve our focus and concentration at the end because one or two sloppy things meant that we conceded a goal on a day that our keeper deserved a clean sheet,” he said.

“The first half was also a bit cagey and there wasn’t much in the game but we took our chances.

“Otherwise, Doncaster made it difficult for us to build up to the final third. The goals changed the game, though, and the second straight after half-time took the sting out of it a bit.

“I’m delighted with the scoreline, even though I’m not sure it was a true reflection of the game.”

Langstaff – who scored 42 goals en route to National League promotion last season – got off the mark for the campaign.

Williams said: “He came close to a hat-trick and deserved the goals for the workrate he’s been putting in for us this season.

“He’ll be looking to get another brace now because he likes his goal-a-game ratio and is playing catch-up.”

Doncaster boss Grant McCann was bitterly disappointed with a lack of fight shown by his side, who continue to chase their first league win of the season.

McCann labelled the performance unacceptable and said the issues must be addressed quickly as he looks to correct a poor start to the season.

He said: “When you watch the first goal back, we don’t sprint, we don’t close it down quick enough and we let (John) Bostock just cross the ball. This is something we have to improve on.

“What I see at the minute is teams with more energy and more aggression than us out of possession and that is something I can’t live with. I can live with getting beat when a team is head and shoulders better than us. At times Notts County were.

“But I can’t live with people not running and working – that’s on us.

“We concede from a cross into the box and we leave someone who scored 40-odd goals last season completely free and then we do the exact same at the start of the second half in the middle of the box to give ourselves a mountain to climb in the game.”

Mat Sadler accused his Walsall players of giving Crewe a “leg up” to come back into the game after they let a two-goal lead slip in a 2-2 League Two draw at Gresty Road.

The Saddlers were thwarted by a stoppage-time leveller from Alex midfielder Jack Powell, whose cross evaded everyone and sailed into the far corner of the net.

Earlier the west midlanders had looked impressive when building a lead through a first-minute effort from Freddie Draper and Isaac Hutchinson’s superb strike before the half-hour mark.

Elliott Nevitt hit back for Crewe on the hour, but Sadler’s side appeared to have quelled the home response and were heading for their second win of the campaign before they were shocked by Powell’s late intervention.

“I thought for 60 minutes we were brilliant and we really understood our game plan. We should have been three or four up comfortably,” said Sadler.

“But Crewe have been 2-0 down twice before this season and we gave them the opportunity to come back again.

“The frustrating thing for me is that we were comfortable, but we gave them a leg up to get back into the game when they hadn’t deserved it. Yet even after their first goal, we dampened things down and the crowd were having a go at them.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t deal with a ball into the box and we have to improve on that. We had some fantastic pieces of play and we showed we are a proper team, a really good unit.

“Isaac drove it forward and Ryan Stirk controlled the midfield while Freddie and Danny Johnson were a handful.”

Crewe boss Lee Bell said: “I thought we tried to play but we had too many below par in the first half. Elliott’s goal got us back in it and he took it really well.

“I’m giving up on the added time now and it seems they’ve (the referees) been told to cut back on it.

“I thought we’d get longer than that and with that extra time we might have been able to push for a winner.

“We’ve got a small squad and we are a couple short in areas we want to strengthen. But every professional at the club will get their opportunity.

“We have to carry on going in the right direction and we will use the free week to prepare well for the next one.”

Jubilant AFC Wimbledon boss Johnnie Jackson saluted his battling side as their fine second-half showing earned a 3-0 victory over derby rivals Sutton.

Goals from Ryan Johnson, Harry Pell and James Tilley did the damage as Jackson’s team maintained their unbeaten start to the League Two season.

“It’s always a tough game for us, especially being a local derby,” said Jackson.

“They make it really difficult for you, but I thought we had to match them physically and the way they played, the pressure they put you under.

“We selected that from the start and they didn’t disappoint. But we had to stand up to it and, sometimes, you have to stay in the game for 60 minutes or so and take your chances then they come along.

“But we were by no means hanging on. I still think we had the best chances in the first half. We had a couple of really clear-cut chances.

“I felt we should have been leading at half-time, but we weren’t. And then you have to come out with the same response knowing that they’re putting you under pressure.

“They did at the second half, but I thought ‘weather that’ and then we took control of the game.

“I felt once we scored we were completely in control. I thought we saw the game out really well.

“You can get one and sit back and sit on your lead, waiting to invite pressure. But this team doesn’t do that, we get after it and want to score a second and a third goal.”

Frustrated Sutton manager Matt Gray said: “I thought it was a really even game in the first half.

“They had a couple of decent chances early on, but I thought we really grew into the half and we certainly had a few moments as well.

“It was very even and we had the strong wind in the first half, but in the second half I though we started really well.

“We had a couple of moments, hit the post and in a derby game where there’s a real atmosphere and a lot at stake, the first goal is massive.

“But unfortunately we’ve gone one goal behind from a great set-piece delivery – and a good header from one of their lads.

“We huffed and puffed a little, so I’m disappointed with the result.

“It was hard to get our foot on the ball on quite a few occasions but, as I say, the first goal is key and we didn’t get it.”

Ian Dawes was left lamenting his Tranmere side’s second-half performance after visitors Salford came from 2-1 down at the break to win 4-3.

Connor Jennings and Kristian Dennis had given Rovers the advantage in this Sky Bet League Two contest, with Matt Smith netting for the visitors in between.

However, after Callum Hendry made it 2-2 a minute into the second half, he hit two more to give the Ammies a remarkable victory, with Charlie Jolley’s goal for the hosts making the 12 minutes of stoppage time a little more frantic for Salford.

Dawes was despondent after his side’s defensive lapses proved costly in the end.

“In the first half we did really well and we deserved to be 2-1 up at half-time,” he said.

“Unfortunately injuries forced two changes upon us so we made those changes, and then to go out and concede a minute after half-time, that’s not acceptable, it’s not good enough.

“The flow of the game changed and we didn’t defend well enough, which is very unlike us, we don’t normally give many chances away.

“We look like we were going to score every time we went forward but were vulnerable at the back.

“It’s a tough result to take, we had to commit players forward. We got it back to 4-3 and still had chances but it’s a disappointing result.

“We talked at half-time about making the game secure and the game management in the first minute of the second half wasn’t good enough.”

He added: “We’re gutted that we’ve lost the game but we’ve got to pick ourselves up and move forward.

“We can’t give Hendry that much space because he’s a top player, and we can’t defend like we did against him.

“The fans know we threw everything we could at them and we all felt we were going to get an equaliser. We’ve tried everything and left gaps but it wasn’t meant to be today.”

Salford boss Neil Wood revealed that his players had come in at the break furious to be a goal in arrears, and was delighted that they drew level almost instantly once the second half got going.

Although he was unhappy with his side’s own defensive shortcomings, he felt they deserved to take home the three points.

“I’m not quite sure where to start today,” he said. “I thought we played really well after a poor start and conceding after six minutes. All three of the goals we conceded were really soft so we have to be much better at that side of it.

“But I do think we played some really good stuff in the first half, we put a lot of pressure on and scored an equaliser, got some good momentum behind us then we were sucker-punched with the second goal.

“I’m glad the lads were angry about it at half-time. I’m really pleased that they showed they weren’t going to accept it.

“We had to keep doing what we’d done well in the first half and we got the best possible start to the second half we could have and we needed to stick to our identity. I thought we dominated them but we had to manage the game better.

“You can get a bit sucked in by the 12 minutes of injury-time when we should have kept the ball better but I don’t think they caused us that many problems.

On Hendry, Wood added: “Callum showed the workrate and quality we want out of him every week.

“We’ve got quality in the side and we know if we play in the right way we’ll create chances and score goals.”