Wolves 2

Somerset Trojans 2

Somerset Trojans let two valuable points slip through their fingers in their match against Wolves last night at the Devonshire Recreation Club.

Goals from Markez Laws and Vincent Minors Jr cancelled out an own goal from their goalkeeper Daniel Adams and Leo Burgess to leave honours even.

The result puts Trojans level with Dandy Town on 22 points at the top of the Premier Division, while Wolves remain in eighth.

“Obviously we are disappointed in the result, we wanted to put pressure on Dandy Town and we were doing the job right until the final few minutes,” Trevin Ming, the Somerset captain, said. “It is important to get these sorts of results. Now we have to look elsewhere for help, something we didn’t want to do.”

With windy conditions dictating the play throughout the match, it was a Burgess cross that led to the opening goal, much to the dismay of Adams.

A looping ball into the area was held in play by the elements, forcing the Wolves goalkeeper to collect the cross that dropped on the goalline.

Bearing down on Adams, Deunte Darrell challenged for the ball, resulting in Adams mishandling and fumbling into his own net.

Trojans had a chance just before the break to double the lead, but a Sean Brangman flick on from six yards was cleared at the back post by Anthony Francis.

Laws, a defender who came up from the back for a corner, headed home at the far post from a Minors cross.

Trojans continued to push forward in the dying stages for the winner and were rewarded when Adolphus Lambert was brought down by Michael Williams just outside the Wolves area with a minute left in regulation.

Burgess curled his free kick to the back post, where Adams misjudged the flight of the ball again and watched in agony as it went over his head and into the top corner.

The points looked safely in the bag until the third minute of stoppage when Minors tapped home a Maricko Iris shot that crept through a sea of legs.

Shaquille Bean, the Somerset goalkeeper, tried his best to keep the effort out, but to no avail, although the original clearance from Jemiko Harvey-Outerbridge only went as far as the top of the box.

Both sides poured forward in the final minutes, but no further action would take place in either goal area.

“You have to play until the final whistle and, although you can say this and that about the match and how it should have gone, we can only blame ourselves for the result,” Ming added.

“It is a cruel game. You have to take the good with the bad and now we must refocus for next week’s game out here again.”