League Two Review: Luton progress checked, managerless Burton held

Luton Town were dislodged from top spot in League Two after a seven-game winning run was checked by Exeter City on Saturday.

John Still’s side have found the transition from non-League football an easy one, but they were removed from the summit as Wycombe Wanderers returned following their win at Oxford United.

Luton looked set for another triumph when Scott Griffiths headed in Andy Drury’s cross after just three minutes, but the goal hero turned villain when he conceded the 72nd-minute penalty that led to substitute Tom Nichols netting the leveller.

Wycombe, who had taken only one point from their previous two games, staged a second-half fightback to take maximum points, with Paul Hayes and Peter Murphy on target.

Shrewsbury Town also produced a turnaround to beat Dagenham and Redbridge 2-1 and climb to third, despite the second-half dismissal of Jermaine Grandison.

Billy Bingham put Dagenham ahead inside six minutes and the hosts will have fancied their chances of a first win in four league games when Grandison – who scored the decisive own goal in Shrewsbury’s narrow League Cup defeat to Chelsea last Tuesday – saw red for hauling down Ade Yusuff.

However, Micky Mellon’s side took the spoils courtesy of Liam Lawrence’s last-gasp penalty after Andy Mangan had levelled.

The bottom two sides both wiped out two-goal deficits to earn 2-2 draws, but Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers remain in the relegation places.

Hartlepool capitalised on Andy Sandell’s dismissal to score twice in the last 10 minutes against Newport County, while Rovers grabbed a 90th-minute equaliser against Stevenage through Michael Ihiekwe.

Northampton shrugged off manager Chris Wilder’s touchline absence to beat AFC Wimbledon 2-0. Kaid Mohamed and Alex Nicholls were on target as Wilder served the first game of his two-match ban for using abusive language towards a referee.

Burton Albion’s first fixture after the departure of manager Gary Rowett to Birmingham City ended in a 1-1 home draw against Plymouth Argyle, and Southend moved up to seventh courtesy of a 2-1 win at Mansfield Town.

Elsewhere, Portsmouth condemned Carlisle United to a 3-0 loss, Bury beat Cambridge United 2-0, and York City earned just their second league win of the season with a 1-0 success at Cheltenham Town.