Wingate & Finchley 3

Potters Bar Town 3

Ryman League Division One North

Yet again Wingate & Finchley and Potters Bar Town produced goals and goalmouth action.

The hosts came from two down to take a lead, but then saw the three points reduced to one by a late penalty.

The visitors controlled the first 25 minutes and found themselves two goals to the good.

After only three minutes, a Daniel Talbot cross found the head of James Dickie, whose effort looped on to the roof of the goal. Then, on ten minutes, the Blues' defence went missing as a cross from Josh Cooper found the head of Andy Martin, whose header went over Ed Thompson and into the net.

Six minutes later, and with the Blues still failing to click, Phil Turner raced through and lobbed Thompson from 30 yards to put the visitors seemingly out of sight.

But Wingate hit back, and Dean Williams saw a shot skim the far post. This effort lifted the Blues and, three minutes before the interval, Guy Morris released Williams who danced his way through the visiting defence and drove an unstoppable effort into the corner.

A goal before the break was marvellous news for the Blues, but it got better. With seconds remaining in the half, Williams turned provider when he laid the ball back for Morris to equalise.

Shortly into the second half, and Wingate should have been ahead as Tashan Bradshaw-Brown left keeper Richard Hayward for dead but, with only a defender on the line, he skied his effort.

However, seven minutes into the half the hosts were ahead. Morris and Craig Ellis combined to allow Leon Wilson to play a diagonal pass, which Jirka Houdek ran on to and waited for Hayward to commit before rifling an effort across the keeper and into the net for his first Wingate goal.

Having taken the lead, the Blues had chances to increase their advantage, with Bradshaw-Brown finding the side-netting and Anthony Limbrick forcing Hayward to scramble across his goal to save a fierce return of an under-hit goal kick.

It was still important for Thompson to be alert and he produced two superb saves before launching a huge drop kick, which was flicked on by debutant Chris West and Dean Williams fired over.

Then, with five minutes to go, a scramble on the edge of the area ended with a push being spotted by the referee. Richard Howard drilled his penalty down the middle for a late equaliser.

u Wingate travel to Waltham Abbey on Saturday before a home game against AFC Hornchurch on Tuesday.