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Joe Pigott winner earns AFC Wimbledon deserve victory at Cheltenham

Joe Pigott winner earns AFC Wimbledon deserved victory at Cheltenham.

Johnnie Jackson was delight for Joe Pigott after the Leyton Orient loanee open his League Two account for the season in the 1-0 win at Cheltenham Town on Saturday.

The 30-year-old scored in the 2-1 EFL Cup win ยูฟ่าเบท https://ufabet999.app over Bromley but got his first League Two goal for the club after rejoining this summer in the 67th minute when he turned home Ryan Johnson’s cross.

Wimbledon bounced back to winning ways after suffering their first defeat of the season in the 2-0 loss at Bromley in the league last Saturday.

“I’m buzzing with that one,” Jackson told Wimbledon’s YouTube channel.

“I thought we deserved to win today. I thought we were really good in both aspects of our play – what we did with and without the ball.

Joe Pigott’s second-half goal secured a fully-deserved 1-0 victory for AFC Wimbledon at Cheltenham.

Johnnie Jackson’s Dons dominated the first half, but failed to make their superiority count.

However, the home team resistance was finally broken in the 67th minute. When Ryan Johnson supplied Pigott from the left and he applied a neat finish inside the bottom left corner.

Matty Taylor saw a speculative effort saved by Owen Goodman for Cheltenham in the 14th minute, but from then on the Dons controlled possession.

Owen Evans parried a shot from Jake Reeves midway through the first half and Alistair Smith curled an effort just wide in the 36th minute.

Cheltenham did show an improvement early in the second half, but Pigott’s first league strike of the campaign put the Dons on course for their second win of the season.

The closest Cheltenham came to levelling was a curling shot from Cardiff loanee Joel Colwill. That was push away by Goodman diving to his left in the 74th minute. While Tom Pett’s injury-time effort was tame.