MATCH REPORT: Swindon Town (1) v (0) Oldham Athletic

Dion Conroy’s last gasp header let a lacklustre Swindon off the hook as they picked up three points with a 1-0 home win against John Sheridan's Oldham Athletic. Total Sport Swindon's Joe Acklam gives his match report from the County Ground.

Ellis Iandolo fired a free-kick to the back post in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time for Conroy to snatch the points at the death.

A Town side plagued by injuries and suspensions to forward players failed to carve out chances against a poor but defensive Latics side, but they managed to overcome that and send John Sheridan home deflated.

The captain’s header moves Swindon up to sixth in League Two, jumping above Sutton, who lost at Walsall.

Ben Garner made three changes to his line-up for the visit of Oldham, as Akin Odimayo, Jack Payne, and Jayden Mitchell-Lawson replaced Mathieu Baudry, Ryan East, and Jonny Williams, with new signing Mandela Egbo making the bench alongside the recalled Harrison Minturn.

Dylan Bahamboula started brightly for Oldham, the Swindon defenders played like they had made a pact not to tackle him. He drove through three would-be tacklers and fed Davis Keillor-Dunn whose shot from the edge of the box was well held by Jojo Wollacott.

Halfway through the half tensions of a fairly placid opening boiled over Sam Hart was booked for a foul on Jake O’Brien, but a scuffle broke out involving players from both teams.

This continued when Jordan Clark and Nicky Adams both saw yellow for fouls on Mitchell-Lawson, Oldham wanted to add the ingredients to give the game a derby flavour.

Sheridan inserted himself into the centre of the action as he and Baudry got into an altercation on the sideline as Swindon’s central defender was finishing a warm-up.

The second half started with a little more attacking intent as Payne went on a long dribble and finally found space, his curling effort lacked power but Danny Rogers palmed it out and Mitchell-Lawson and Davison were both tantalisingly close to tapping in the rebound.

A minute later Conroy took it upon himself to try and find the opener as he let fly from 30 yards out, and his effort went narrowly wide of the top corner.

Town were far from dominating proceedings but they were finding some openings as Mitchell-Lawson scampered down the left, cutting it back to Odimayo who nudged it on to Iandolo and his shot forced a save out of Rogers.

With five minutes to play Town had a chance to win when they started a promising counter-attack which substitute Egbo curled well to the back post which Davison inexplicably left and Williams’ touch looped tamely onto the roof of the net.

In stoppage time Clark saw red for a second booking after committing a foul on the edge of his own box.

But even deeper as it looked like all was lost, a ninth different Oldham player went into the referees notebook, giving Town a free-kick by the corner flag which Iandolo fizzed in and Conroy got round the back to smash home a header and see three sides of the County Ground erupt.