AFC Wimbledon clinch promotion

Lyle Taylor and Adebayo Adkinfenwa fired AFC Wimbledon into Sky Bet League One for the first time as they beat Plymouth 2-0 in the League Two play-off final at Wembley.

Fourteen years after the original Wimbledon was moved to Milton Keynes, Neal Ardley’s men booked their place in the third tier for next season and set up a meeting with rivals MK Dons.

In a game that produced few chances, it took until the 78th minute for Taylor to make the breakthrough as he slotted the ball past Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick.

With several minutes of injury time added on, Wimbledon were awarded a penalty with almost the final kick of the game which Akinfenwa powered home after a heated discussion with regular penalty taker Callum Kennedy.

It was Wimbledon who went closest in the opening exchanges, and it came from a free-kick as the ball was lofted into the back post with Taylor waiting eight yards out but he couldn’t get the touch to take it past McCormick.

And while Plymouth had seen the better of the ball, it was the Dons who continued to create the better chances and did so twice in quick succession with McCormick again smothering from the danger of Taylor before Paul Robinson just hit wide after Tom Elliott headed …

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