Exeter City beat Cheltenham 1-0 in League Two at St James Park on Saturday, 14 November 2026, with a second-half strike settling a tight encounter between two closely matched sides.
The first half ended goalless, with neither side able to separate themselves before the break. It was not until six minutes after the restart that the game's decisive moment arrived, Lakyle Samuel finding the net in the 51st minute to give Exeter City the lead and, as it turned out, the win.
Cheltenham could not fashion an equaliser and left Devon with nothing, suffering a fifth defeat in 15 league matches. The result leaves them in ninth place in League Two, with 21 points from their 15 games — a record that reads six wins, three draws and six losses, with 23 goals scored and 26 conceded.
Exeter City, meanwhile, claim all three points to sit eighth in the 24-team division. They have 22 points from 15 outings, courtesy of six wins, four draws and five defeats, with 12 goals scored and nine conceded. The two clubs are separated by just a single point in the standings, and Exeter City are in the top third of the table following this result.
For Exeter, whose recent form reads WLWWD, this victory extends a sequence that has kept them firmly in the upper reaches of League Two. For Cheltenham, whose last five results read LLWWL, Saturday's defeat continues a difficult end to this period of the campaign.