Winless in the late Sean McConville won Stanley fired home his sixth goal of the season to give Accrington their first win in seven league matches when they beat Stevenage 1-0.
In a dour first half of few chances, Stanley Ray Putterill had a strike led by goalkeeper Chris Day and the midfielder was unable to turn home the rebound.
But Stevenage were also tested Reds keeper Ian Dunbavin when Lawrie Wilson has gone from half-way line for 35 minutes and finished with a firm shot parried away from the wall.
Jay O'Shea put the ball over the crossbar to the stroke of halftime for the visitors before the game has been increasingly niggly after the break with most of the actors involved in a melee in the box Repair Reds' defender Sean Hessey with Stanley Reserved.
Chris Holroyd district, then had a goal annulled for an error in the accumulation of 65 minutes but two minutes later, Stanley Jimmy Ryan played a superb ball from the right and McConville deflected the ball into the far corner of the net from eight yards.
Accrington Stanley manager John Coleman is fully-fit squad to choose to face Stevenage, although some members about the failure of the field.
Goalkeeper Alex Cisak had a dead leg after Sunday's 2-0 defeat the first inning, but was deemed fit to play.
Stevenage boss Graham Westley will be without suspended pair of John Mousinho and Luke Foster.
But he is not expected to make too many changes as it seems to lead Boro is the second successive promotion.
Accrington in the Football League in 2006/07, finishing 20th at their first season and improved from year to year with 17 16. and 15th placed finish in League Two.
This year, Stanley finished the season in fifth place, seven points behind the seat for the final automatic promotion.
Despite finishing with two goals Stanley boss Coleman is still confident his team can make progress.
"I can not believe that the fans see another side Accrington as they did on Sunday," Coleman told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"Whenever we've played badly, I always recovered.
"The statistics and the history of the end of the year for us at home shows that we have a good chance of winning the game.
"What are the statistics and history also say is that when we win games at home, we tend to win by more than one goal."
Stevenage is new boys of the league after promotion last season's Blue Square Premier Bet.
Accrington Boro finished four points behind sixth place after the last day of Bury 3-3 tie.
Westley told BBC Three Counties radio: "We go there knowing that a draw or a win will take us to the final so we have these two options in our locker room.
"But we play football to win and we certainly will not rest.
"Clean sheets are what we are all about, and goals is what we are all about.
"We seek to defend elastic and in an organized way, when we did not have the ball and want to be targeted when receiving the ball."
