Bridgwater United faced Somerset rivals Shepton Mallet away from home in the FA Vase.

Bridgwater played up the slope in the first half, writes Archie Mills.

Will Collins had the first sight of goal inside five minutes, standing his defender up and jinking to one side before sending his shot well over the bar.

United started well, pushing Mallet into a low block, but it wasn’t the tone that continued for the rest of the evening.

Bridgwater’s best attempts of the half came from range.

On 20 minutes, Sam Stayt picked the ball up 30 yards out and struck a clean strike, it had plenty of power and was only just wide.

Ten minutes later the ball dropped to Horton on his left foot, but his effort too went wide of the post.

The score was 0-0 at half time.

Seven minutes after the restart, it was Shepton who struck, a counter-attack worked out to their left-hand side and fired home.

It was exactly the sort of goal they had been threatening all evening and they executed it well.

It could quickly have been worse.

Shepton came out of the break the better side, and two minutes after scoring they went close twice in quick succession.

Their winger cut inside and forced a save, and from the resulting corner the ball dropped to a home player in the box, whose volley flew just wide.

Manager Dave Pearse turned to his bench, bringing on Ryan Crawford and later Jake Llewellyn, but for a long spell nothing changed.

Shepton defended stoutly, and Bridgwater simply could not find a way through.

It took until the 70th minute for the Robins to properly work the goalkeeper, when a blocked Beresford shot fell to Collins and the keeper was drawn into a save.

Then, in the space of a few minutes, the game erupted into life.

On 80 minutes, Tom Llewellyn, who had struggled to have his usual impact on our game, drove forward, rounding multiple defenders before the ball squirmed through to Crawford, and the substitute rifled it over the goalkeeper and in.

An equaliser well celebrated by the travelling fans.

Three minutes later Collins burst clear and was clipped, and the Shepton defender responsible was shown a second yellow card.

From going nowhere, we were level and facing ten men.

Crawford nearly made it two on eighty-five, getting his head to a deep cross from Spence ahead of the onrushing keeper, but it went wide.

It looked as though that might be the last of it, and extra time beckoned.

It never came.

With what must have been the last kick of the game, the ball was worked into the box and fell to Jake Llewellyn who smashed it home to nick United an unlikely win and send us through to the next round.