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Stevenage FC 0 Stockport County 1 ( EFL League 1 Play Off Semi Final -1) Saturday 9 May 2026

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            What a match……what a performance by County…what an amazing finish to the game -as another `half the length of the field` break away by Icelandic phenomenon Breki Andresson   started a frenzy of excitement in front of the Stevenage goal as Ben Osborn sent County`s loud travelling army home happy ignoring the frenzy around him to force the ball home. The stadium erupted in a solid wall of ecstatic noise as County supporters gave vent to emotions pent up all afternoon as the blues plugged away at a Stevenage defence that took advice from no one at all when it comes to doing what needs to be done when the chips are down, as they were many times for Stevenage with Ollie Norwood in supreme form directing County`s forward push. Into added time we thought we would be settling for 0-0 ,and that would have been an excellent position to be in when we returned to Edgeley Park for the second leg, but we reckoned without Breki Andresson and a ...
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Barnsley 1 Stockport County 3 ( Football League 1 ) Saturday 2 May 2026

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        County strode magnificently into the playoffs today with an emphatic and most definitely merited 3-1 victory against Barnsley at their Oakwell home. This was by far the most important match of the season thus far for County – but they approached it with an appropriate attention to the needs for them to attack Barnsley- a team more noted for attacking zeal than defensive nous. It was 23 minutes before County`s forward push paid off via a typically bullish finish from Adama Sidibeh. They still led 1-0 at half time and into the second half, but for a time it appeared that County were looking to defend deep and hold what they had- a thought that, rightly or wrongly, gained traction when Adam Phillips equalised for the Yorkshiremen. Thankfully, the blues got their game together again, which with the state of our defensive resources as they are   just now, was 100 % the thing to be doing. As soon as pressure was put on Barnsley`s back line- they fo...
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