As the race for promotion heats up in League One , Charlton Athletic are set to travel to face Mansfield Town at One Call Stadium on Tuesday. The Stags will be looking for their third win on the bounce in midweek, while the Addicks will be hoping to make it four wins from five. © Imago Nigel Clough 's Mansfield started their first season back in the third tier in impressive fashion, and though they have found 2025 difficult, they were only three points from the playoff spots on Boxing Day.
The Stags went on a dire 14-game winless run across all competitions between the start of January and mid-March, and they are now 14th in League One with 47 points, 15 fewer than sixth-placed Reading. That being said, Clough's side seem to have turned a corner in recent weeks and have taken maximum points in back-to-back wins over Barnsley and Bristol Rovers ahead of their midweek clash with Charlton. Last time out at One Call Stadium, centre-back Deji Oshilaja scored a 90th-minute winner against the Tykes to end Mansfield's barren spell, helping the club to avoid equalling their worst ever run of 14 league matches without a win.
If Tuesday's hosts can replicate that result in midweek, then they could leapfrog Stevenage and go level with 12th-placed Lincoln City on 50 points, and though they are unlikely to climb up towards the playoffs by the end of the season, three points could give them the security of a 14-point cushion between themselves and the relegation zone. © Imago Meanwhile, N.
