For most of the first half Exeter were the better side. A poor backpass let Sonny Cox in, and Will Norris brought him down a yard outside the box. The Salford keeper was perhaps lucky to see only yellow, and he saved Luca Woodhouse's free-kick. Ten minutes later the visitors were ahead. Harry Kite won the ball in midfield and found Cox wide, and his low shot across goal went in, with Taylor Perry bundling it over the line to make sure. It went down as Cox's, his second of the season.

Scully, Charlie Cummins and Woodhouse all had chances to double the lead before the break, and Salford went in a goal down with three players booked. Elliott Bonds and Brendan Wiredu had followed Norris into the book.

The home side lost Luke Molyneux to injury ten minutes after the restart, with Daniel Udoh coming on. Their equaliser came on 66 minutes, just after George Birch had two chances for Exeter in quick succession. A low cross was fizzed in and Luke Garbutt got across his man to poke it home. It was Salford's first shot on target.

Both sides made changes, and Exeter kept shooting. Jack Bycroft saved from Wiredu, and Norris got down well to stop Reece Cole's drive. Lakyle Samuel and Josh Gordon also went close for the visitors.

Daniel Udoh was played through and forced wide by Jack Taylor, and Samuel, on loan from Manchester City, put one inches past the post. Then, on 88 minutes, Odoh played the ball to Aimson 25 yards out, and he smashed it into the top corner. In the first of five added minutes Aimson made a brilliant block to deny Ethan Sutherland. Salford found a way again.

Peter Cklamovski admitted he had not exactly urged his centre-back on.

Matt Taylor was proud of Exeter and stung by the way it ended.

It took them less than three minutes. Conor McManus found space down the left and picked out Harry Waldock, who finished clinically from six yards.

Shrewsbury had plenty of the ball and plenty of crosses, most of them from Tom Sang. Josh Davison headed two wide, Ollie Wright saved from Sang, Kian McMahon-Brown and Sam Stubbs, and Josh Ruffels nodded another wide. At the other end Will Brook had to be just as alert, saving from Ronan Hale twice and from Waldock before half-time.

The pressure kept building after the break. Wright saved Ruffels' header from another Sang cross, and Will Boyle missed from inside the six-yard box after a corner. Then, on 58 minutes, Sang was brought down in the area by James Brophy. George Lloyd, back in the squad after being taken to hospital with a neck injury in last weekend's draw, sent Wright the wrong way, then went off four minutes later. Both sets of supporters paid tribute around then to Richard Green, who played for both clubs and died recently.

Gillingham changed things. Tom Eaves, Armani Little and Bradley Dack all came on, and it was Dack who made the difference. On 80 minutes he hit the bar from the left side of the box, and Smith was there to turn in the rebound.

Shrewsbury threw on Joseph Gbodé and Arkell Jude-Boyd and had three shots from outside the box blocked in a minute. Eight minutes of added time weren't enough to find an equaliser.

Gavin Cowan was proud of the performance and baffled by the result.

Ainsworth credited the bench that won it.

With an extra man, Swindon had the ball almost all afternoon. They had 74 per cent possession and 15 shots to Rotherham's three. For most of the first half, though, they struggled to make it count. Stephan Negru headed over from a corner, Julian Eyestone saved from Matty Virtue, and Billy Kirkman went close twice from distance. Mitchell Clark and Tom Nichols both headed just wide.

Holloway brought on Joseph Hungbo for James Ball three minutes before the break, and Eyestone saved Joe Snowdon's shot from range soon after. Then, three minutes into first-half stoppage time, Dan Butler found Jack Thomson 25 yards out, and a deflection took his shot away from Eyestone. It was Thomson's first goal for Swindon.

Alex Bruce's side came out with more after half-time. Jayce Fitzgerald forced Connor Ripley into a save on 50 minutes, and Bruce made three changes at once on 55 minutes, though one of them came because of an injury to Joe Rafferty, the captain, who was making his 500th career appearance. Swindon couldn't add to their lead. Butler and substitute Ollie Palmer both shot wide from distance.

Rotherham's task got even harder on 79 minutes. Dominic Iorfa, the last man, brought down Matty Virtue and was sent off, and Bruce was sent from the touchline too. Hungbo, a former Rotherham player, stepped up to the free-kick and struck it with his left foot into the top left corner.

That should have been that. But on 87 minutes Connor Ripley, a virtual spectator all afternoon, dropped a routine cross, and Denzel Hall fired in his first goal of the season. Eight minutes of stoppage time followed, and Sonny Aljofree dragged a shot wide in the second of them. Swindon held on.

With an extra man for 86 minutes and two extra for the last 11, Swindon should have won this comfortably. Holloway knew it, and he didn't pretend otherwise.

Rotherham were brave, but they stay deep in trouble, and they will have two more players suspended.

With Alex Bruce sent off, assistant Steve Agnew spoke for Rotherham, now winless in seven.

It started perfectly for the home side. Zach Jeacock saved from Aidan Borland in the fourth minute, and a minute later Tyler Walton's cross found Charlie Warren, on loan from Bolton, at the far post. It was his fourth league goal of the season.

Accrington could have been out of sight by half-time. Shot after shot was blocked, two of them Warren's in the same minute, David Tutonda and Donald Love both had efforts cleared off the line, and Jeacock saved from Alex Henderson. Northampton didn't have a shot until Owen Dale's effort was blocked just before the break.

Northampton made two changes at half-time, sending on Tyrese Fornah and Josh Powell, and they looked better for it. Louie Moulden had to save Powell's header from a Janoi Donacien cross. Stanley still had the better chances. On 53 minutes Love could only guide Henderson's cross over the bar from inside the six-yard box, and later shot over from a set piece, and Jeacock kept out Stefan Mols' header on 70 minutes.

Both managers turned to their benches in the last quarter of an hour. Northampton's changes worked. Tyrese Fornah had a strike cleared off the line, and List, on in the 75th minute, almost set up Matty Warhurst, who headed wide from close range. Then, two minutes into stoppage time, Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh headed the ball down to List, and he scored low into the bottom right corner.

There was still time for Lee Evans to fire high and wide after a corner. Accrington will look at the 17 shots and wonder how they only got one goal.

John Doolan didn't dress it up.

Chris Hogg took the blame for a poor first half, and the credit for the changes that rescued it.

There wasn't much in a tight first half. Danny Collinge headed over for Barnet from a corner early on, and both sides picked up bookings, Reece Hutchinson for Crewe and Nikola Tavares for Barnet.

The goal came on 34 minutes. After a set piece, Knowles came infield to pick up the loose ball and lashed it from 20 yards into the top left corner, past the recalled Ian Lawlor. Just before half-time, Nnamdi Ofoborh was booked for diving. Crewe finished the half strongly. Jordan Gibson, Josh March and Joel Tabiner had shots blocked, and Charlie McNeill shot just wide.

Barnet made three changes around the hour, one of them forced by injury, when Williams came on for Romoney Crichlow-Noble. Crewe made three changes of their own at 64 minutes, bringing on Joe White, Adrien Thibaut and Calum Agius, and the game turned.

White tested Matthew Cox from distance on 82 minutes. Three minutes later he swung in a set-piece cross, Luke Offord headed wide, and moments later Williams, against his former club, stretched a leg at the delivery and turned it into the far corner of his own net.

Crewe went looking for a winner. Cox made a good save to keep out March's header from Hutchinson's cross, and Agius headed just over from close range. At the other end Lawlor saved well from Kabongo Tshimanga's shot from a tight angle. Six minutes of stoppage time weren't enough for either side to find another goal.

Lee Bell had his point and still wasn't happy. He felt Josh March was tripped by Barnet captain Danny Collinge in the box during the second half, and referee Harrison Blair waved it away.

Dean Brennan didn't spare the former Crewe man who had cost Barnet the win.

It started brightly for Oldham. Calum Kavanagh shot wide inside the first minute and Mike Fondop headed over soon after. Then it unravelled. Kai Payne was shown a straight red card in the 14th minute for a midfield challenge on Orsi, and Oldham reshuffled four minutes later by sending on Tom Pett for Favour Fawunmi.

On the half-hour mark Kane Drummond became the second. The wide man raised a boot to control a high ball as Kai Jennings went to head it, and referee David Rock sent him off. There was still an hour to play.

Oldham kept going, and Crawley couldn't find a way through before the break. Mathew Hudson saved from Dylan Morgan, Jude Arthurs and Morgan again, and it was 0-0 at half-time.

Crawley got their reward in the 52nd minute. Charlie Barker hit the bar from outside the box, Hudson saved Orsi's header from point-blank range, and Orsi got to the rebound first and put it into the bottom left corner.

Oldham's nine men didn't stop running. Kavanagh made Vito Mannone work with a shot from distance, and Fondop and Donervon Daniels headed wide from set pieces. But Crawley were the side more likely to score again. Hudson saved from substitute Dion Pereira, and Ade Adeyemo shot over late on.

It was Crawley's first win in 11 League Two games. By the final whistle they had 18 shots to Oldham's 16, and six on target to two. It's a win that keeps them in touch at the bottom. For Oldham, two red cards in one game is something they'll have to look at.

Micky Mellon would not talk about either red card, but he didn't need to.

Kevin Blackwell, the interim manager after Colin Kazim-Richards' sacking, has four points from his two games in charge, and this was Crawley's first league clean sheet.