Wycome Wanderers 2 - 2 Hereford United

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Tuesday Dec 04 2007 07:45

Hereford United scored twice in the last five minutes to deny Wycombe all three points at Adams Park.

A Theo Robinson header and a goal from Simon Johnson cancelled out first-half strikes from home midfielders Stefan Oakes and Gary Holt.

Promotion chasers Hereford would have found themselves behind as early as the third minute if it wasn't for Kris Taylor, who was on hand to clear the ball off the line from a shot from Wycombe's Argentinian winger Sergio Torres.

However, Hereford keeper Wayne Brown could not do anything about Stefan Oakes 25-yard strike on six minutes.

After receiving the ball from Torres the Wycombe midfielder let fly leaving Brown with no chance in the Bulls goal.

However, after going behind Graham Turner's men took the game to Wycombe and looked threatening through the strike pairing of Steve Guinan and Robinson.

Wanderers wingers Matt Bloomfield and Torres started to apply more pressure on Brown's goal, but it was Hereford who should have been level on 44 minutes.John McCombe was played in by captain Ben Smith, but the centre-back with only the keeper to beat smashed his shot against the bar.

Instead of being level at the break they found themselves two down when a speculative 25-yard effort from Gary Holt beat Brown for the second time.

Both sides pushed forward in search of that critical third and it finally came on 86 minutes when Robinson gave Hereford hope after he rose well at the back post to head home a teasing Toumani Diagouraga cross.

The Whites piled on the pressure late on and substitute Johnson grabbed an equaliser on 89 minutes when he crashed a shot home from 12 yards.

Johnson nearly completed a dramatic turnaround on the stroke of full-time, but after a fantastic driving run his shot was pushed around the post by the outstretched arm of Rab Douglas.

  • 90
    That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.
  • 89
    Goal!! Hereford have scored with Simon Johnson putting it in the back of the net.
  • 87
    Sergio Raul Torres is being taken off, Tommy Doherty has come on in his place.
  • 86
    Goal!! Hereford have scored with Theo Robinson putting it in the back of the net.
  • 76
    Stefan Oakes is being taken off, Andre Boucaud has come on in his place.
  • 68
    Hereford are replacing Kris Taylor with Simon Johnson.
  • 64
    Will Antwi is replaced by Craig Woodman.
  • 46
    The second half is under way with the score currently at 2 v 0.
  • 45
    Goal!! Gary Holt scores for Wycombe.
  • 45
    The ref has blown his whistle for half time.
  • 6
    Goal!! Stefan Oakes scores for Wycombe.
  • 0
    It's 7:45pm on Tuesday, December 4th, the match has kicked off.

Statistics

Wycome Wanderers
Shots on target 6
Shots off target 2
Shots off bar/post 0
Fouls 18
Offsides 2
Corners 5

Hereford United
Shots on target 4
Shots off target 1
Shots off bar/post 1
Fouls 8
Offsides 6
Corners 8

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