Stockport’s bid for a League One play-off place will go to the final game of the season at Barnsley after already-relegated Port Vale clinched a 2-1 win at Edgeley Park.<\/p>\n
The Hatters still require a point to extend their season after Martin Sherif and Jordan Lawrence-Gabriel scored first-half goals to earn Jon Brady’s side just a 10th win of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Everton loanee Sherif shot the visitors into a fourth-minute lead, sliding in to convert Ben Waine’s left-wing cross from six yards.<\/p>\n
Vale doubled their lead after 23 minutes when Lawrence-Gabriel seized on Malik Mothersille’s hesitancy to curl in a left-foot effort.<\/p>\n
Jack Diamond twice went close to reducing the arrears, while team-mate Che Gardner escaped with only a yellow card for ending Waine’s run on goal.<\/p>\n
Skipper Ben Garrity nearly made it 3-0 only to be denied by Corey Addai’s fingertips.<\/p>\n
Stockport boss Dave Challinor made three half-time changes including an appearance of last Saturday’s hat-trick hero, Louie Barry.<\/p>\n
But fourth-placed County, who can still be caught by seventh-placed Luton, managed only one goal six minutes from time through Odin Bailey.<\/p>\n
Match report supplied by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stockport’s bid for a League One play-off place will go to the final game of the season at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-422334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}