Extra-time required as FA Trophy final finishes 0-0

DARLINGTON'S FA Trophy final with Mansfield has headed into extra-time after the game finished 0-0. After a tight and tense tussle at Wembley, Quakers twice came close to breaking the deadlock in the final four minutes but were denied. First, Marc Bridge-Wilkinson's 22-yard free-kick rebounded to safety off the inside of the left-hand post with Stags goalkeeper Alan Marriott beaten. Then, in the final minute of stoppage time, Tommy Wright failed to find the target with a close-range diving header after Bridge-Wilkinson's cross unlocked the Mansfield defence. First-half chances were few and far between, but Mansfield enjoyed their best spell at the start of the second half and Paul Connor came close to diverting Louis Briscoe's 55th-minute cross-shot into the net.

Source: Northern_Echo