AFC Wimbledon will 'host' their first game at the QPR Stadium while awaiting for work on Plough Lane to be completed. Our opponents for this will be Plymouth Argyle who were of course the team we conquered in the 2016 League Two playoff final at Wembley. Plymouth won promotion last season by finishing 3rd in League Two behind Champions Swindon and runners up Crewe, thus managing to reacquaint themselves with us once more. The Pilgrims are managed by Ryan Lowe who steered them back into League One in his first year at the helm. Their opening match in this year's league campaign saw them win 1-0 at home against Blackpool Town, striker Luke Jephcott headed home Argyle's third-minute winner. They defended well in that match and weathered a volume of attacks from Blackpool, the betting markets have it fairly even, but if the Dons can start as well again as they did against Northampton last week I am confident of a positive result here. Joe Pigott leads the line again and continues to wear the captains arm band.
Most Recent League Games
Northampton 2 - 2 AFC Wimbledon
Plymouth Argyle 1 - 0 Blackpool Town
Head to Head
First competitive game was in 2011 where the Dons ran out winners 2-0 at Home Park, and if you include the cup competitions it's fairly even having played each other seventeen times. Wimbledon winning seven times, Plymouth six, the remaining four have been drawn. The highest profile game of course being the League Two play off final at Wembley in 2016 a 2-0 win for AFC Wimbledon.
Starting XI's [Confirmed]
AFC WIMBLEDON
Win Odds - 8/5 [William Hill]
Trueman (Gk), O'Neill, Thomas, Kalambayi, ⚽McLoughlin, Chislett, 🟨Woodyard, Reilly, Guinness-Walker, ⚽⚽Pigott (c), ⚽Longman
Trueman (Gk), O'Neill, Thomas, Kalambayi, ⚽McLoughlin, Chislett, 🟨Woodyard, Reilly, Guinness-Walker, ⚽⚽Pigott (c), ⚽Longman
SUBS - Tzanev (Gk), Csoka, Nightingale, Alexander, Hartigan, Roscrow, Oksanen
PLYMOUTH ARGYLEWin Odds - 17/10 [William Hill]
Cooper (Gk), Aimson, Wootton, Watts, Edwards, Mayor, 🟨MacLeod, ⚽Grant, ⚽Cooper, Hardie, 🟨Nouble
SUBS - Ruddy (Gk), ⚽Canavan, ⚽Telford, Moore, Lolos, Law, Pereira Camará
Selected Bets On This Match;
- Over 1.5 Goals in 1st Half @2/1
- Wimbledon to win and both teams to score @7/2
- Red Card shown in the match @5/1
[Pigott 18'] [Cooper 16' Grant 45']
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First Half Comments;
The Pilgrims kick off this match at QPR, The Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium, our temporary home till Plough Lane is ready. Ryan Longman has a couple of early half chances for us and it's great to see a bright start again with our new players keen to make an impact. While the opening efforts are from range, it's Plymouth who win the first corners of the game and are starting to have the upper hand, so no shock they took the lead on the quarter hour, George Cooper with a left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the top left corner following a corner. That was short lived however as just a minute or so later Joe Pigott equalises with a right footed shot from the centre the assist coming from Brighton loanee Ryan Longman. It's very open, fairly attacking from both sides, Mr Kettle finally gets his cards out and books Alex Woodyard for Wimbledon, but even he's been fairly quiet this half. The half sees several Wimbledon attacks that sadly come to nothing and it looks like we are going in at the break all square at 1-1....but NO, Plymouth score again right on the 45th minute Conor Grant with a cracker to take the lead again.
⚽Full Time Score - 4 - 4.
[McLoughlin 49' Pigott 60' Longman 69'] [Canavan 77' Telford 78']
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Match Summary;
Wow what a game, 1-0 down, 2-1 down but the second half we turned it around and a welcome 'home' win (unbeaten in the league so far lol) McLoughlin got us level just after the break then Pigott scores his second and Ryan Longman secured the win with a well deserved strike. Might be 20 mins to go but I'm really that confident about this ... damn. How the hell are they doing this to me, 4-3 then 4-4, shame there's no one there to enjoy this value for money goal fest.
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Today's Referee - Today's match referee will be Mr Trevor Kettle from Rutland, a very experienced referee and not one to be messed with, very high card to game ratio. Last season we had him twice, losing both games, hopefully better luck this time around. Will be assisted this afternoon by Stephen Finch and Nicholas Cooper while the fourth official is Ryan Whitaker.
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Dons next league match:
26th September 2020 vs Fleetwood Town (Away)
League One Kick off 3:00pm
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