Burton Albion 2-1 Mansfield Town

Matt Palmer's goal was his first in the Football League

Burton remain just a point off the League Two top spot after surviving a second-half fightback to beat struggling Mansfield.

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's side are second while the Stags are four points ahead of the bottom two in 20th.

Burton's Matt Palmer scored from a free-kick before Kelvin Maynard doubled the lead with a header.

Michael Raynes's header pulled a goal back for the visitors but they were unable to secure a point.

Burton boss Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink told BBC Radio Derby:

"Take nothing away from Mansfield, they came here and had a game plan.

"They looked at us properly. They tested us, and tested us a little bit differently to Shrewsbury last week by being more direct, and it caused us problems.

"It was not a classic. But you're not going to go through a season with all them games being easy and beautiful.

"It's not going to happen. Sometimes you have to really dig in as a team and work hard."

Mansfield boss Adam Murray told BBC Radio Nottingham:

"Two defensive errors have cost us the game today.

"People have held the hands up in the dressing room, but we have lost a game of football and we are not in a position where sorry is good enough.

"I felt we were unlucky to get a point after our second-half performance.

"We had enough chances, and the frustrating thing is we've come to a top-of-the-table team and took the game to them, and with a little bit more ruthlessness, it might have been different."