2024
 
Saturday, 24 August 2024
Sky Bet League - Division Two
EV Charger Points Stadium
Attendance: 4,256
Ref: Stephen Parkinson
 
Cheltenham Town
0 (0) - (0) 1
AFC Wimbledon
Joe Pigott (67)
1
O Evans
5
Levi Laing
25
Sam Stubbs
18
Ibrahim Bakare
Subbed 7373
2
Arkell Jude-Boyd
8
Luke Young
Subbed 7373
17
Scott Bennett
Yellow 28m Subbed 8484
3
Ryan Haynes
Subbed 8484
16
Joel Colwill
9
Matty Taylor
Subbed 6565
12
R Bowman
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21
Joe Day
34
Tom Pett
Sub (3 84m)3-84
30
Freddie Willcox
15
Jordan Thomas
Sub (17 84m)17-84
22
Ethon Archer
Sub (8 73m)8-73
14
Liam Dulson
Sub (18 73m)18-73
10
George Miller
Sub (9 65m)9-65

Joe Pigott’s second-half goal secured a fully-deserved 1-0 victory for AFC Wimbledon at Cheltenham.

Johnnie Jackson’s Dons dominated the first half, but failed to make their superiority count.

However, the home team’s resistance was finally broken in the 67th minute when Ryan Johnson supplied Pigott from the left and he applied a neat finish inside the bottom left corner.

Matty Taylor saw a speculative effort saved by Owen Goodman for Cheltenham in the 14th minute, but from then on the Dons controlled possession.

Owen Evans parried a shot from Jake Reeves midway through the first half and Alistair Smith curled an effort just wide in the 36th minute.

Cheltenham did show an improvement early in the second half, but Pigott’s first league strike of the campaign put the Dons on course for their second win of the season.

The closest Cheltenham came to levelling was a curling shot from Cardiff loanee Joel Colwill that was pushed away by Goodman diving to his left in the 74th minute, while Tom Pett’s injury-time effort was tame.