Mansfield v Port Vale – League Two playoff final

75 min: Oates is crowded off the ball just outside the Port Vale penalty area as Mansfield’s desperation increases.

74 min: Mansfield advance again. Oates tries his luck from distance but drags a low, speculative diagonal well wide of the far post.

72 min: Good approach play from Mansfield, who almost pull a goal back. In the Port Vale goal, Aidan Stone does very well to beat Rhys Oates’s shot away for a corner, which is subsequently cleared by Ben Garrity.

Another disallowed goal! Port Vale have another effort chalked off for offside, Charsley converting from seven or eight yards out after collecting a curled cross from Worrall. He was well offside.

68 min: Just on to the pitch, Charsley massively overhits a pass up the inside right for Ben Garrity to chase. Mansfield goalkeeper Nathan Bishop collects.

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67 min: Port Vale substitution: Harry Charsley, who began the season as a Mansfield Town player, on for Jake Taylor.

66 min: Mansfield substitution: George Maris on for Matty Longstaff.

DISALLOWED GOAL! From three or four yards out, Kian Harratt has the ball in the net for Port Vale after Nathan Bishop fumbled a shot at a corner but he’s offside.

63 min: Port Vale advance with James Wilson riding a couple of tackles to stumble his way through midfield. They win a throw-in deep in Mansfield territory and Wilson pauses to feel the back of his left thigh while he waits for it to be taken. It looks like he’s tweaked his hammy.

60 min: Mansfield win themselves a corner. It’s a poor delivery, played to the near post by Stephen Quinn, where David Worrall makes a mess of clearing it for Port Vale. Stephen McLaughlin pounces to shoot on the turn but sends his effort rolling wide of the upright.

59 min: Mansfield try the direct approach, lumping the ball long from deep. It’s headed clear.

57 min: Mansfield enjoy a spell of sustained possession but still struggle to get beyond the halfway line. THey’re down to 10 men and Port Vale are playing as if they have 13 or 14 out there, closing down the passing lanes, pressing hard and giving their opponents very few options.

55 min: Two goals and a man to the good, Port Vale are completely dominating the early stages of this second half. They’re first to every breaking ball and making it difficult for Mansfield to get out of their own half.

54 min: Mansfield Town substitution: George Lapslie on for Jamie Murphy.

52 min: Port Vale’s Jake Taylor clips the ball to the far post and Mansfield half-clear. Jake Taylor connects on the volley from a couple of yards outside the Mansfield penalty area but drags his effort a couple of feet wide of the upright.

50 min: Mansfield goalkeeper Nathan Bishop is forced to wallop the ball into the stands under pressure to concede a throw-in deep in his own half. Mal Benning takes it long and Matty Longstaff tries to clear for Mansfield.

48 min: Nifty footwork down the inside left of the Mansfield penalty area from Port Vale’s Connor Hall, who tries to pick out James Wilson. It’s a bullet of a pass and he controls the ball at his second attempt before unleashing a shot from a very tight angle that wins a corner for his side. Nothing comes from the set-piece.

47 min: There are no changes in personnel on either side, in case you’re wondering.

Second half: Mansfield Town 0-2 Port Vale

46 min: Play resumes at Wembley, where Mansfield Town have an Everest to climb. If they don’t score first in this second half, one suspects the jig is very much up for them.

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Well, well, well: Mansfield started in the ascendency but things went quickly downhill for them. Kian Harratt and James Wilson scored two in the space of less than four minutes to give Port Vale a comfortable lead, before Mansfield’s Ollie Hawkins plunged his side further into the mire by getting himself sent off for two bookable offences within five minutes. Port Vale are in the driving seat against the 10-man Stags.

Half-time: Mansfield Town 0-2 Port Vale

Peep! The half ends with James Wilson firing a shot straight at Mansfield goalkeeper Nathan Bishop.

45+4 min: Mansfield’s James Perch gets booked for a clumsy, late challenge on Ben Garrity. Free-kick for Port Vale, a few yards outside the Mansfield penalty area, almost straight in front of goal. James Wilson sends an effort curling around the wall and fizzing inches wide. Mansfield goalkeeper Nathan Bishop was well beaten.

Port Vale’s James Wilson (right) fires a free kick past the wall and past the post. Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA

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45+3 min: Port Vale advance in search of a third goal, trying to kill the game off. They win a throw-in deep in Mansfield territory but the ball ends up going out for a goal-kick.

45+1 min: Mal Benning sends the free-kick towards the far post, where Nathan Smith leaps to meet it. The chance is a good one but he sends his header drifting wide.

43 min: Mansfield’s Elliott Hewitt is booked for a foul on Jake Taylor. There’s a break in play as Taylor receives medical attention.

42 min: Port Vale clear one off the line, Connor Hall preventing a from Jordan Bowery effort from close range from going in after Aidan Stone had fumbled a shot and dropped it into the Mansfield striker’s path. There were mere millimetres in that.

40 min: Patrolling his technical area, Mansfield manager Nigel Clough looks completely despondent and well he might. You can bet your bottom dollar his father Brian would have had plenty to say to Ollie Hawkins at half-time, if the defender hadn’t had the good sense to leave the ground first.

38 min: Having picked up an initial yellow for a daft, unnecessary off the ball incident, Hawkins gets a thoroughly deserved second a few moments later for a moronic late challenge on Wilson. What was he thinking?

RED CARD! Mansfield down to 10 men

Disaster for Mansfield Town! Already two goals down, Mansfield are now a man down too. Ollie Hawkins gets his second yellow soon after his first for a ridiculous late lunge on James Wilson. That is indescribably dumb by the Mansfield central defender.