Spennymoor 4 Gainsborough 4 (Spennymoor won 5-3 on penalties).

Spennymoor finally managed to overcome Gainsborough when they beat them 5-3 on penalties after a thrilling 4-4 draw in 120 minutes in the FA trophy last night.

Both teams took time to adapt to the sticky surface, which only just passed a lunchtime inspection, and Moors scored from the first serious attack of the game on 13 minutes.

A clearance was helped on by Glen Taylor for David Foley to run up the left, wrongfoot a defender, and hit a low left foot shot from the corner of the six yard box that Gainsborough keeper Heinrich Ravas could only help over the line.

But Gainsborough levelled on 19 minutes when Ashley Worsfold found space on the six yard line to head a right wing cross from Crag King past Shane Bland.

Midfielder Mattie Dixon then struck a bobbly 25 yarder that went just past the left hand post before Moors went 2-1 up on 28 minutes, when Mark Anderson moved in from the right, and his curling shot from just outside the box went beyond the reach of Ravas into the bottom corner.

But Gainsborough replied on 31 minutes, when Curtis Bateson kept the ball in play, cut in, and somehow squeezed the ball into the net at the near post past Bland.

Gainsborough nearly got another when Bland made a point blank save from a Worsfold header off a left wing corner, and Bland came to his side’s rescue again when a mistake by Kallum Griffiths let in Worsfold, and he saved with his feet.

Foley showed a touch of class on the resumption when he beat his man on the left and struck a low diagonal right foot shot that beat Ravas, but bounced off the inside of the post into the keeper’s hands.

Griffiths also went close with a bending free kick from 25 yards that was deflected just past the post, and Shane Henry forced a diving save out of Ravas.

Foley then burst through one-on-one, but Ravas saved at his feet, and the keeper also pushed a piledriver from Taylor around the post.

But Moors paid the penalty for those missed chances when a poor clearance by Bland went straight to Worsfold, who tucked the ball into the net, although Moors had valid handball appeals in the build up seconds earlier.

Moors struggled to break Gainsborough down again, until four minutes from the end of normal time, when half time sub Ryan Hall picked up a corner and hit a blistering right foot shot past Ravas that went in off the post.

It was 4-3 to Moors a minute into extra time when sub Andrew Johnson crossed for Taylor to head neatly past Ravas from six yards.

Typically of this see-saw game, Gainsborough bounced back, and Alex Simmons toepoked them level from a nod down on 95 minutes.

Moors were on top after that, but Gainsborough kept them out to force penalties, which Moors coolly converted, Andrew Johnson scoring the decisive penalty after Bland saved from Nathan Stainfield.

Moors will now be at home to Solihull Moors on Saturday.

Moors: Bland, Griffiths (sub Fewster 80), Mason, Dixon (sub Hall 67), Chantler, Curtis, Ramshaw, Henry, Taylor, Anderson , Foley (sub Johnson 85).

Subs not used: Porter, Tait.

Attendance 237.

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