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          2017-18 English League Two, Regular Season
          Morecambe Morecambe MORE
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          FT
          2
          Chesterfield Chesterfield CHES
          • Garry Thompson (16')
          • Callum Lang (33')
          • Kristian Dennis (55')
          • Andy Kellett (74')

          Battle of strugglers ends in draw

          Apr 10, 2018
          • PA Sport

          The battle of the two League 2 strugglers ended all square as bottom club Chesterfield came from two goals down to earn a battling point at the Globe Arena.
          Despite Chesterfield enjoying the greater share of the possession in the first half the Shrimps took a 2-0 lead into the break after a close range header from Garry Thompson in the 17th minute from Michael Rose 's excellent cross and a fine Callum Lang effort 12 minutes from the break after he robbed the visitors' defence of possession and slotted the ball under Aaron Ramsdale from 12 yards out.
          Chesterfield boss Jack Lester made two changes at the break with Chris O'Grady and George Smith coming on and the changes quickly paid dividends as the visitors pulled one back through top scorer Kristian Dennis.
          The chance looked to have gone begging when Dennis initially failed to control the ball into the box but he recovered sharply and struck a stunning volley past Danijel Nizic from the left hand side of the box.
          The visitors then took charge and deservedly added a second with 15 minutes to go.
          Ramsdale drove a free kick into the Morecambe box and the ball was headed into the danger area for Andy Kellett to smash a half volley past Nizic from 12 yards out.
          Both teams went close to snatching victory at the end with Morecambe's Gregg Wylde smashing a close range effort over after 90 minutes and Louis Dodds almost sealing a superb fightback when he headed wide in injury time from Jason Brown's cross.

          English League Two Standings

          POS Team GP GD PTS
          1 Cheltenham Town 32 +16 59
          2 Cambridge United 34 +19 58
          3 Forest Green Rovers 32 +12 57
          4 Morecambe 33 +3 55
          5 Tranmere Rovers 32 +6 54
          6 Newport County 32 +8 51
          7 Bolton Wanderers 33 +1 51
          8 Exeter City 31 +18 50
          9 Salford City 32 +15 50
          10 Bradford City 31 +3 47
          11 Harrogate Town 33 -2 45
          12 Crawley Town 31 +2 44
          13 Carlisle United 29 +5 43
          14 Leyton Orient 32 -1 42
          15 Stevenage 34 -3 41
          16 Oldham Athletic 32 -7 39
          17 Scunthorpe United 31 -7 39
          18 Walsall 32 -5 38
          19 Mansfield Town 32 -5 37
          20 Colchester United 32 -12 36
          21 Port Vale 33 -6 34
          22 Barrow 31 -6 29
          23 Southend United 33 -26 29
          24 Grimsby Town 31 -28 24