Plymouth Argyle missed out on the League One play-offs despite coming from two goals down to beat relegated Northampton Town 3-2.

The Pilgrims needed to win their final game, and hope both Stevenage and Luton Town dropped points to make the top six.

But Dan Sweeney's 90th-minute winner for Stevenage at home to Wigan Athletic dashed Argyle's hopes before Luton scored an even later winner at Bolton Wanderers.

It means Argyle finish the season in eighth place, having looked like they might make the top six going into the final 10 minutes of their game.

Argyle trailed 2-0 after 18 minutes at Sixfields but were back level by half-time and then won it thanks to substitute Brendan Wiredu 15 minutes from time.

Owen Dale missed a glorious chance to give Plymouth a lead inside 90 seconds, side-footing wide at the back post, and Northampton responded by scoring twice in five minutes.

Michael Jacobs set up Elliott List, who finished smartly to break the deadlock, before he turned scorer when lashing home a thunderous first-time strike from Nesta Guinness-Walker's lay-off.

Plymouth were shell-shocked but they regained their composure and were right back in the game after 28 minutes when Laurent Tolaj's effort deflected off a defender and wrong-footed Lee Burge.

And the visitors went into the break all square after Northampton failed to clear a corner and the ball dropped kindly for Malachi Boateng to lash in.

Plymouth, already with the momentum, were helped by Conor McCarthy's poor challenge, which resulted in a second yellow card, and Wiredu duly completed the turnaround with 15 minutes to play, whipping an effort into the corner.

At that point Argyle were in the top six, but late goals for Stevenage and Luton meant they finished eighth.

Match details supplied by PA Media.