Evo Stik Division One North
Ossett Albion 4-3 Mossley
Nicky Matthews completed Ossett Albion’s spectacular comeback. Picture: Adam Hirst
Ossett Albion revitalised their play-offs by coming back from the dead to beat Mossley at Dimple Wells.
Albion found themselves 3-1 at half-time, but three goals in ten minutes secured an unlikely victory.
Albion started brightly and took the lead after 5 minutes. Good work down the right by Declan Dawson saw him put in a hard, low cross for Connor Brunt to fire home.
From then Mossley bossed the half using the long, diagonal ball which constantly caught out the Albion defence on their right hand side. After 12 minutes the long ball came to Tom Pratt who cut inside and fired past Brett Souter in the Albion goal to equalise.
Three minutes later the same long ball came to Pratt who passed to David Short to give Mossley the lead. Then just before the interval the same long ball came to Pratt who crossed for Andrew Keogh to plant a header wide of Souter.
Albion came out in more determined mood for the second half and the introduction of Nicky Matthews on the hour mark proved to be decisive. On 67 minutes Scott Kerr’s shot from the right took a deflection and looped over Liam Flynn in the Mossley goal.
Three minutes later Albion’s player/chairman Dominic Riordan rose above the Mossley defender to head a long ball home to put Albion on level terms.
With ten minutes remaining Albion were dominating the play. A ball into the centre seemed to be going to Flynn but Matthews nipped in to take the ball round him and fire home from a narrow angle.
Ossett Albion: Souter, Dawson, Hardaker, Paylor, South, Riordan, Walker (Matthews), Kerr. Bordman, Eyles (Muller), Brunt. Subs unused: Sharry, Nicholson, Hoyle.