On the power

period. The shock opening goal on two minutes came via Dan Barber, as he bundled the ball into his own net, and then Shelley’s Chris Parker, displaying a captain’s role, followed up with a brace on eight and 18 minutes, to take his team into the break with a comfortable lead.

Shelley must have thought they had done enough and, in the second period, eased off the pedal and allowed their Division One hosts to take control.

Skelmanthorpe’s re-vamped defence snuffed out any further threats and, with the breeze now in their favour, capitalised on 63 minutes from George Whittaker’s free kick, when skipper Tom Barber made amends for his brother’s earlier error and powered home his header into the roof of the net.

Within eight minutes, Jack Smith took advantage of some poor defending and slotted home.

It was now game on and the intensity of a cup fixture was more than apparent as both teams were committed to every challenge.

With 12 minutes remaining, Josh England levelled the score with an easy prod home after visiting keeper Olly Taylor allowed the ball to squirm from his grasp after making the initial save.

It looked like 30 minutes extratime until late substitute Jake Hodder saw his goalbound effort, in added time, deflected past the helpless Taylor to take Skelmantorpe into the next round.