In England last-day matches of the League Two championship are played on Saturday at 4 pm all at the same time. Watch out for the “cookie”.
Stockport, Mansfield and Wrexham, the top three in the standings, are long since certain to play in League One next season. Playing in the playoffs will be the teams ranked between fourth and seventh.
The MK Dons are already sure to play the playoffs and the return leg of the playoff semifinals with the help of the field factor. Doncaster and Crewe, in fifth and sixth place respectively, need only one point each to be sure of playing the post-season.
The possible cookie in Colchester-Crewe
The “cookie” concerns Crewe itself, which will be engaged in an away game against Colchester, third-last in the standings that needs a point to be sure of salvation without depending on the result of Sutton United, which also has a worse goal difference of four goals.
Sutton has a complicated game anyway, and Colchester may not even need the point, but given the particular standings of the two teams it is easy to imagine that at least in the first half they will not hurt each other.
In the playoff zone, the easiest game on paper is Crawley’s at home against an affordable Grimsby, 21st but already arithmetically safe.
Bradford must hope in the misfortunes of others, but will still try to do its own and leave no stone unturned: against quiet Newport the three points are within reach.
Predictions: possible winning teams
Bradford City in Bradford City-Newport County.
Crawley in Crawley-Grimsby
0-0 EXACT FIRST HALF RESULT in Colchester-Crewe
MATCH in Colchester-Crewe
Matches by at least three goals total
Milton Keynes Dons-Sutton United
Bradford City-Newport County
Crawley-Grimsby
Forest Green Rovers-Notts County
Walsall-Wimbledon
The games by at least one goal per team
Accrington Stanley-Tranmere Rovers
Swindon Town-Morecambe
Forest Green Rovers-Notts County