Preview: Stags v Crewe

12 January 2023

The Stags are at One Call Stadium this Saturday for a Sky Bet League Two clash with Crewe (3pm kick-off). Here’s all you need to know…

The One Call Stadium car park will be closed 15 minutes prior to full-time until footfall reaches a safe level to enable supporters to leave the ground on foot.
The club advises supporters to enter the stadium as early as possible once turnstiles open at 1.30pm.
The gate between the Ian Greaves Stand and the North Stand will be closed 20 mins prior to full-time until Crewe’s supporters coaches have left the ground.
Pyrotechnic detection dogs will be on duty outside of the home and away turnstiles to ensure the safety of fellow supporters.

Left-back Stephen McLaughlin will be assessed ahead of Crewe’s visit to One Call Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Lucas Akins and Kieran Wallace will also be assessed ahead of this weekend’s fixture with the Alex.

Captain Ollie Clarke and defender Riley Harbottle have been ruled out of the encounter with injury.

Midfielder Anthony Hartigan is out for the rest of the season with a shoulder injury.

The referee for the game is Carl Boyeson. Mr. Boyeson will be assisted by Richard Woodward, Sian Massey-Ellis and fourth official, Gary Hilton.

Tickets are available to purchase online via stagstickets.co.uk or by calling 01623 482 482 (option 1).

Family tickets – priced at £23 – are now available to purchase online by selecting one adult and one junior in blocks A or B of the Quarry Lane Stand. Once this has been added to the shopping cart, the discount will be automatically applied.

The prices for purchasing tickets in advance of matchday are as follows:

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane
Adult	£23	£22	£20
Senior (65+)	£20	£19	£18
Young Adult - 18-21	£18	£17	£16
Early Junior 13-17	£15	£14	£13
Early Junior 07-12	£11	£10	£9
Family (1 adult 1 child)	N/A	N/A	£23
Hospitality - Purchase	£60	N/A	N/A
Hospitality - Upgrade	£40	N/A	N/A

Matchday prices are as follows:

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane
Adult	£25	£24	£22
Senior (65+)	£22	£21	£20
Young Adult - 18-21	£20	£19	£18
Early Junior 13-17	£16	£15	£14
Early Junior 07-12	£12	£11	£10
Family (1 adult 1 child)	N/A	N/A	£23
Hospitality - Purchase	£60	N/A	N/A
Hospitality - Upgrade	£40	N/A	N/A

Parking is unfortunately unavailable at One Call Stadium.

All reserved car parking spaces are within the location of the Ian Greaves Stand car park. Please note that the car park shuts 30 minutes prior to kick-off due to safety regulations.

The following sites, owned by Mansfield District Council and with easy access to One Call Stadium are Grove Street, Victoria Street, Garden Road and Church Lane.

Charges are as follows:

Grove St 50p/hr

Victoria St 50p/hr

Garden Rd 50p/hr

Church Lane 80p/hr

All of the above pay and display surface level car parks offer cashless parking via RingGo as an additional way to pay.

Every car park has a unique code so people can either pay over the phone, by text, online or by using a free smartphone app.

Details of how to do this are displayed in each car park. Information about all Mansfield District Council car parks can be found at www.mansfield.gov.uk/carparks.

Where do I go when I get to One Call Stadium?

Hospitality

If you are a hospitality guest, please enter the stadium via the brown double doors to the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand, which is the entrance to our hospitality suites.

The doors are located to the left of the white merchandise stall outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen, backing onto the main car park and sign-posted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Media

Members of the media are asked to also head to the entrance to our hospitality suites, where our media steward will provide you with the necessary accreditation.

The required entrance is located to the left of the merchandise stall outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen and signposted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen - at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand - will be open from 12pm.

The matchday menu will also be served from 12.30pm.

Our Fans’ Zone bar - located at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand - will be open from 1pm.

Live audio of the encounter is available on iFollow Stags to UK subscribers, with commentary courtesy of Martin Shaw and Dean Foulkes. Listen to full match commentary of the game for just £2.50. Purchase your match pass here.

Fans based overseas can watch the game live! Purchase your match pass now for just £10 here.

You can follow the action live via our Twitter match updates, which can be found here.

Commentary for the visually impaired will be provided by Alan March Sport. Collect your headsets from the Kevin Bird Suite/Hospitality entrance at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand.

A report of the match will be published on the club website following the full-time whistle, and post-match reaction will be available to view on mansfieldtown.net and iFollow Stags.

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Match Previews

Match Reports

Report: Stags 1-1 Crewe

14 January 2023

Mansfield Town were held to a 1-1 draw as a goal in either half saw them share the points with Crewe at One Call Stadium.

Midfielder George Maris put the Stags ahead shortly before the interval and was later harshly sent off after being adjudged to have denied a goalscoring opportunity.

Before that, Crewe right-back Kelvin Mellor hammered home a long-range thunderbolt to level for Crewe.

New full-back Callum Johnson was handed a start after signing on Friday from Ross County for an undisclosed fee. Jordan Bowery and Kieran Wallace were also in the lineup.

Kellan Gordon and Will Swan made way while Oli Hawkins completed a permanent transfer to Gillingham earlier in the week.

New recruit Alfie Kilgour – the centre-half from Bristol Rovers – began on the bench.

Stags sent an early warning to Crewe inside the second minute when Stephen McLaughlin delivered a dangerous ball to the edge of the goal area, but the visitors cleared behind for a corner.

The Alex carved out their first opening three minutes later.

Daniel Agyei got the better of James Perch to storm into the box and square for Tariq Uwakwe to stab wide, under pressure from Johnson, eight yards out.

Stags were soon back up the other end as Oates raced clear of the Crewe defence, latching onto a wonderfully-weighted high ball from Hiram Boateng. Though Alex shot-stopper David Richards rushed out to narrow the angle and Oates lobbed both him and the bar from the edge of the box.

With quarter-of-an-hour played, Jordan Bowery came close as he deftly nodded wide from McLaughlin’s left-wing cross.

Stags created once of their best chances of the half with a lovely free flowing move after 23 minutes.

Bowery slipped to the overlapping Johnson on the right, whose superb low ball into the box was narrowly missed by the advancing Oates.

Boateng was next to have a crack at goal with a sizzling 20-yard drive which arrowed over the angle.

Stags’ goalkeeper Christy Pym was forced into making his first save on 38 minutes.

The Peterborough loanee got down quickly to his right to push behind Lachlan Brook’s left-footed strike after the midfielder peeled off his marker inside the box.

Oates was then presented with a surprise chance when Connor Thomas played a loose pass back to goal. But the Mansfield frontman was unable to get enough power behind his 25-yard shot and Richards gathered.

The Crewe goalkeeper could do little about the next shot at goal as Stags deservedly took the lead after 42 minutes.

Johnson delivered with pinpoint accuracy into the goal area, and George Maris got beyond his man to stab home and send the Stags’ fans into raptures.

Mansfield were gunning for a second soon after the restart and on 53 minutes, Oates agonisingly saw the ball float above his head following a fine right-flank cross from Boateng.

Crewe then levelled against the run of play two minutes later.

Boateng’s mis-placed pass fell nicely into the path of Kelvin Mellor, who launched a rocket into the back of Pym’s goal from 30 yards.

Oates tried to restore Stags’ advantage with a superb inviting ball into the box, but Alex got there first to divert behind for a corner.

And from the resulting flag-kick, Crewe had Richards to thank after he acrobatically managed to one-handedly turn away Johnson’s close-range effort

Moments later, Oates was in the referee’s notebook for trying to turn the ball into the visitors’ net with his hand following a right-sided cross.

Soon after Crewe had made a double change, Boateng curled over from outside the box midway through the second half.

Kieran Wallace, in possibly his best performance this season for Mansfield, was harshly shown a yellow card for a challenge on Bassala Sambou near the halfway line.

Richards again pulled off heroics in the Crewe goal on 72 minutes.

Boateng charged down the right flank before squaring for Quinn, who saw his shot saved by Richards’ trailing leg.

And in Stags’ next attack, Maris rifled one at goal from 18 yards which looked destined to nestle into the far corner, but for Mellor’s brilliant block.

On 76 minutes, Kieran Wallace was replaced by Will Swan in Stags’ first change.

Five minutes later, Stags were reduced to ten men when Maris was questionably deemed to be the last man as he brought down Elliott Nevitt in a Crewe counter attack.

Jason Law was introduced for Stephen Quinn on 83 minutes.

Crewe gained confidence with their numerical advantage and a minute later, Nevitt hit a low effort into the gloves of Pym when he might have done better.

Rhys Oates was then withdrawn for new signing Alfie Kilgour on 86 minutes as Stags switched to a 5-3-1 system.

In the dying seconds, McLaughlin tried his luck with a long-distance pot shot before Kilgour blasted wide in the last chance of the encounter.