Working his magic week in week out in the Mansfield dugout, Nigel Clough has led the Stags on an astonishing 20-game unbeaten run since the end of the 2022-23 campaign,
navigating his side’s first 19 fixtures of the new term without suffering a single beating.Granted, the League Two title hopefuls have managed to
avoid some of the trickier draws on offer in the EFL Cup, sinking Grimsby Town 2-0 in round one before flaunting their 12-yard prowess in successive penalty-shootout wins over
Sheffield Wednesday and Peterborough to break new ground in the competition.Indeed, the Stags had suffered four consecutive first-round exits before the 2023-24 season
commenced, and no matter what transpires on Tuesday evening, Clough’s current crop of players have gone further than any of their
Mansfield predecessors; third-round eliminations in 1994-95 and 2005-06 represent their previous best runs in the EFL
Cup.Alongside their historic knockout journey, Mansfield possess the only unbeaten record in the 2023-24 League Two campaign and sunk
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Walsall 2-1 at the weekend for their fourth win on the trot across all tournaments, but a league-high eight draws means that the Stags’
remarkable feats are only good enough for fourth place the table.However, Clough’s team are only one point worse off than Wrexham and
Notts County – who have both played a game more – and from their 10 contests at Field Mill so far this term, Mansfield have kept clean sheets in six of them.
