Few results that Plymouth Argyle have achieved this season will have set Pilgrims’ pulses racing as much as the 1-0 win at League Two leaders Doncaster Rovers, writes Ross Reid.

Graham Carey crossed and Sonny Bradley powered home a match-winning header that ended Rovers’ year-long unbeaten home league run.

But more – much more than this – it enabled Derek Adams’ Greens to close the gap on the leaders to three points with seven games remaining.

Now I still think Rovers are favourites for the title and both sides – Argyle and Donny – deserve automatic promotion for their season-long two-horse title race.

However, Argyle fans can comfort themselves with a number of positives before tomorrow’s home game against League Two’s ‘form team’ Accrington Stanley kicks off.

First off: the Greens have just beaten the leaders on their home turf.

Secondly: the victory at Donny puts Argyle 13 points clear of fourth place, currently occupied by Stevenage.

Thirdly (and in this case three is a magic number): Argyle now need just three more wins to clinch automatic promotion.

Three more wins – nine more points – and whatever happens, Plymouth Argyle Football Club will kick off in League One this August.

Adams’ Argyle have already won 23 of their 39 league games. I am no mathematician but even I can calculate Plymouth have won more than half this season’s league games.

Put simply: keep on going the way they have been, win more than half of the remaining seven league games and the Greens are going up (so now you’re going to believe us).

It’s going to be a nervy, nail-biting run-in. Run-ins always are.

But better to be chasing promotion than dodging relegation. Stanley arrive at Home Park tomorrow boasting an 11-match unbeaten league run and with hopes of gate crashing the play-off party. Accrington have to keep winning to achieve their goal but so – for the record – do Argyle.