Warrington Town manager on draw with Spennymoor Town

Dylan Mottley-Henry headed home a dramatic equaliser five minutes into injury time to snatch a 3-3 draw in a roller-coaster game at Cantilever Park.

Yellows were 2-0 and 3-1 down and looked to be headed for a fourth straight defeat until Mottley-Henry rose highest in a crowded penalty to nod Sean Williams’ corner into the far corner to spark delirium among the 895-strong crowd.

It earned Town a point Beesley insisted was merited.

Dylan Mottley-Henry runs off to celebrate his equaliser with goalkeeper Dan Atherton, who had come forward for the corner which led to the goal, in hot pursuit (Image: Sean Walsh)

“I think it was the least we deserved, in my opinion,” he said.

“It was more like us in terms of going forward and being on the front foot – we spoke at the weekend about us not having scored in a few games, but we created so many chances today.

“We’ve hit the post and we should have had a blatant penalty, but I can’t praise the lads’ character enough.

“We’ve had a few knocks of late – we’ve lost three games in a week which we’re not used to.

“Confidence could have gone down, but they rolled their sleeves up and had a right go.

“To come from 2-0 down against a good team like Spennymoor feels like a win. I’m hoping it gives us a bit of a lift.”

Spennymoor were two goals up inside half an hour, with Ben Pollock sweeping home from a corner after ex-Town loanee Will Harris had steered in the opener.

Peter Clarke powered in a header from Williams’ free kick deep into first-half injury time to lift Town’s spirits going into the break, but Danny Greenfield prodded in a third for the visitors barely a minute into the second half.

Town responded thanks to an arrowed finish from Isaac Buckley-Ricketts shortly afterwards and both sides continued to have chances until Mottley-Henry’s late intervention.

“We’ve got a habit that we’ve got to get out of in terms of giving poor goals away,” Beesley said.

“Teams aren’t working too hard to score against us.

“There’s a goal from a set-piece – if you lose the first, second and third contacts it is always a goal – and then they catch us cold with the third after half time.

“We’ve got to be better in key moments of games because teams are punishing us. We’ve conceded at least two in the last four games and we’ve got to tidy up.

“We’ve got to be better defensively and in our shape, but at the other end there’s good signs.

“We could have had a couple of goals on Saturday and we carried it on tonight.”

Yellows did snap out of another unwanted habit on Tuesday night in terms of recovering from conceding the first goal.

They had lost all four of the games in which they had fallen behind this season before this game, and Beesley hopes that marks the start of a change in mentality.

"We’ve been behind a few times this season and haven’t got anything out of the game," he said.

"That was the first step – at some point we’re going to go behind again and I’d like to see us come back and win.

"If the game goes on another five minutes, we probably win the game but it’s small steps in this league.

"That was a small step in terms of points but a big one in terms of the shift in mentality."