Tadcaster Albion 4-4 Albion Sports

Manager Billy Miller made two changes to the side that lost at Cleethorpes Town last Saturday with Leon Wrigglesworth coming in for the ill Gary Stevens and George Conway coming in for Andy Milne who is away with work commitments for the next six weeks. This meant that Jimmy Beadle dropped back into the deep lying midfield role with Liam Ormsby and Jason Mycoe also moved backwards to partner Matt Heath in the heart of defence.

It was an end-to-end start to the match with both sides persisting on passing forwards through the thirds instead of sideways crablike. However the downside was that possession was being given up far too easily with constant sloppy passes occurring.

Marcus Edwards headed comfortably over on 11 minutes for the visitors and Dan Clayton struck powerfully off target also before George Conway gave The Brewers the lead on the 20 minute mark. Adam Baker stormed down the left wing, cut back and glided a pass across to Josh Greening in an inside right position. Greening then approached the defender, performed a little step-over and went past the Sports man to then pull back to George Conway who precisely guided into the bottom left hand corner via a kiss off the post.

Ten minutes later and the away side nearly levelled the match as Sam Bradley out-jumped Jason Mycoe on a corner but his looping header bounced onto the crossbar and into the hands of Leon Wrigglesworth.

With the first half nearly over, Albion Sports were having their best spell as Cusack's shot was well held. Matty Dalton was shining on the right-hand side for Albion, a noticeably small player but his low centre of gravity, pace and nippiness was giving Taddy something to think about as he dropped a shoulder to go past Dan Clayton but shoots just wide.

With the whistle about to go, Albion Sports came the closest yet as Aran Basi's dinked diagonal cross was flicked goal wards by Matthew Mathers but the ball agonizingly trickled to safety.

Half-Time: Tadcaster Albion 1-0 Albion Sports

It was coming before the break and it did come just after the break for the visitors as Matty Dalton threaded it through to Marcus Edwards who's shot just had enough venom in it to beat Wrigglesworth in the Tad goal. The Brewers were not happy as they were adamant that Edwards was stood in an offside position.

This goal sparked a crazy ten minutes which incredibly saw four goals scored.

The match was wide open, it had a feel of a cup tie, the spaces for both sides to drive into was scary, being Halloween and all.

The equaliser from Albion Sports clearly got the Brewers' tails up as they immediately went up the other end and snatched the lead back. George Conway bent a through ball in behind the Albion defence with the outside of his boot which set up a race between Nick Black and Jack Bentley the Sports goalkeeper. The stopper started to sprint towards the ball but then strangely chose to retreat back to his goal leaving Nick Black with a clear run down the left. The striker then carried the ball inside and rolled it across the box perfectly to Josh Greening who finished exquisitely.

It was just five minutes later and the away side were level once again. It was that little danger man again Matty Dalton who spun around Dan Clayton in the box and was then adjudged to have been brought down by Matt Heath. Penalty kick given. Albion's talisman Marcus Edwards stepped up and just managed to squirm it under Wrigglesworth for his second of the afternoon.

The extraordinary match took another twist five minutes later as Liam Ormsby arrowed a through ball down the inside right channel to Josh Greening who cut back onto his favoured left-foot, rode a couple of challenges and shifted it sideways to George Conway who steadied himself and guided it into the back of the net to give Taddy a 3-2 lead.

Albion, the Tadcaster one that is, must have thought that they had the three points in the bag when they netted their fourth of the day in the 72nd minute. The home side took a throw-in quickly near the corner flag as Nick Black got it back off Adam Baker who then gave it back to Baker who brilliantly flicked it around James Firth and fired low and hard to George Conway who slid in and netted his hat-trick. It was pleasing to see Conway have so much joy in front of goal as he has been in and out of the side recently so it was good to see him back in top form like we know he is capable of producing on a weekly basis.

I think its fair to say that it wasn't a day for the defenders as every time either side drove forward it looked as though it was going to result in a goal. Just as the home fans around the i2i Stadium started to think they had done enough to win the match, the pendulum swung once again as Albion Sports reduced the deficit to one. Alex Cusack got played in behind The Brewers' defence who looked to unsettle the striker however Cusack delicately flicked past Wrigglesworth to make it 4-3 and setup a nervy 13 minutes.

The tension around Ings Lane was of high octane as Sports almost equalised again. A corner was flicked onto the post by substitute Anil Singh and skipper Jamies Firth's follow-up was bravely thwarted by Leon Wrigglesworth in the Taddy goal.

However with that being said, Albion Sports did incredibly level the match again at 4-4 with five minutes remaining. Another substitute Brice Tiani, spreaded it out to the left-hand side where Alex Cusack had acres of spaces and was one-on-one with Wrigglesworth. The striker then opened up his body and took it around the goalkeeper leaving Alex Cusack an empty net to smash the ball into leaving the home fans wondering how this has happened.

The Brewers had to throw everything at it now, the whole kitchen not just the sink if they were going to steal the three points and they had one final half chance as Adam Baker saw his effort deflected just wide of the mark and that was that.

Full-Time: Tadcaster Albion 4-4 Albion Sports

TEAM: Wrigglesworth, Armstrong, Clayton, Heath, Mycoe, Ormsby, Beadle, Baker, Greening, Conway, Black
Unused Subs: Stewart, Beestin, Woodhead, Thompson, Barrett