Parkway Dig Deep on a Rain Swept Evening at Bolitho
Parkway v Dorchester Town | Match ReportPlymouth Parkway produced a thrilling comeback against Dorchester Town to draw 3-3 after being 0-3 down in the 56th minute.
The Yellows looked dead and buried after being three goals down after 56 minutes, but a red card for Charlie Wooding and a converted penalty from Carlo Garside set Parkway on the comeback route.
Tylor Love-Holmes scored his first goal back in Yellow to make it 2-3 in the 75th minute and James Watts-Barciela completed the comeback in the dying minutes with a great strike into the top left corner.
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Parkway started the game slowly and were forced on the back foot by Dorchester who test Mack Allan in goal after just two minutes. Luke Roberts beat Jensen Ireland down the left before letting his shot fly into the hands of the keeper.
Six minutes later and against the run of play, Tylor Love-Holmes worked himself a yard of space and came inches away from finding the top right corner from just outside the box.
This would be the first of only two first half chances for Parkway, who were then put to the sword by The Magpies.
Despite a great fingertip save from Allan to deny Tom Smith from finding the bottom right corner, Dorchester took the lead from the resulting corner kick in the 16th minute.
Wayne Robinson acrobatically tapped home from six yards after the ball was headed back across goal from the corner kick to make it 0-1 to the away side.
The next ten minutes saw Dorchester dominate the chances, with Roberts and Luke Pardoe both coming close to extending their lead, but each attempt failed to put Allan into a sweat.
The away side’s pressure finally paid off when a header from William Spetch bounced off the underside of the crossbar and hit Taylor Scarff in the back before crossing the line to make it 0-2.
When it rains it pours, quite literally as the heavens decided to dump more misery on Parkway in the shape of torrential downpour.
Despite the monsoon in PL5, Love-Holmes broke through Dorchester’s defence but at the crucial moment, lost his footing and sent his shot well wide.
The second half saw improvement from The Yellows as Love-Holmes was denied from finding the bottom right corner by a superb fingertip save from Besant in the 52nd minute.
Yet disaster struck minutes later as a mistake from Carlo Garside allowed Robinson to break through on goal and finesse the ball into the far-right corner for his second and his sides third of the game.
With the game seemingly buried, a glimmer of hope arose.
Charlie Wooding was shown a straight red card for clearing a headed Parkway effort off the line with his hand, and The Yellows were awarded a spot kick in the process with 69 minutes played.
Carlo Garside stepped up and sent Besant the wrong way, sending a right footed effort into the bottom right corner to redeem himself for his mistake minutes before.
Parkway’s hope then turned into a real chance of redemption when Love-Holmes headed home a corner at the back post five minutes later to make it 2-3 with 15 minutes to go.
With the one-man advantage, McPhee’s side were pressing for the equaliser and came close in quick succession with efforts from Love-Holmes and Jake Smith, but Dorchester had two big chances to kill off the revival.
Jack Veale was called into action to clear an effort off the line in the 88th minute and Allan was forced come out of his box to make two superb challenges to deny Robinson and Smith minutes later.
The comeback was completed in sensational fashion by James Watts-Barciela who fired a strike into the top left corner from the right wing, causing pandemonium at Bolitho Park in the 90+1st minute.
Things could have, and perhaps, should have got even better for Parkway when in the fourth minute of added time, Besant fumbled the ball on the goal line and despite it appearing to roll over the line and huge outcries from fans and players alike, the linesman and referee waves play on.
The comeback secures Parkway a vital point but sees the Yellows drop to 21st in the league just two points ahead of Dorchester in 22nd.
The Yellows have a week’s break due to FA Cup fixtures and are next in action on the 20th of September away at Berkhamsted.
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