Greenock Juniors 4 v 4 Thorniewood United

This result Must have felt like a defeat for Greenock after letting a comfortable 3-1 second half slip - ending up with only one point instead of three.

Stephen Mooney's side seem to have a habit of failing to kill teams off when they are in the ascendancy and this was the case yet again at a dreich Ravenscraig on Saturday.

While Mooney and his players looked despondent as they trudged off the park at the end of the 90 minutes, the match did contain some excellent goals to entertain both the home and away supporters.

Greenock opened the scoring after six minutes with a fine glancing Barnes header from a Mooney free kick wide on the right, which gave visiting keeper McKenna no chance.

In 12 minutes United got the equaliser when forward Queen seemed to have acres of space at the edge of the 18 yard box and his accurate chip sailed over home keeper Graham who was stangely well of his line, and into the net.

A minute later, however, Greenock restored their one-goal advantage with a powerful header from striker Joe Gilmour after a tremendous cross from Harry McLachlan on the right flank.

In the 41st minute Greenock went 3-1 up with the goal of the game and match should really have been over as a contest at this point.

Thomas Docherty took hold of a cute lay-off from Jp.Dow a full 25 yards out before unleasing a left foot thunderbolt which McKenna got a hand to it, but could not hold, as it flew into the top corner of the net.

United pulled one goal back 20 minutes after the re-start when an inswinging cross from the left wing allowed Queen  to get in behind the home defence and direct his glancing header past Graham to keep the visiting team in with a chance.

To the bemusement of the home players and supporters, Thorniewood then added a third only 5 minutes later to put them on a level pegging when greenock really should be home and dry.

This equaliser came by virtue of a long-range daisy cutter from United Fallon, which evaded the home defence and keeper Graham to boot.

Greenock's man-of-the match Gilmour added his own second goal in 74 minutes when he turned and struck a Docherty lay-off low and hard into the net from 15 yards, to put the home side in front once a again.

With greenock looking like holding on for a shaky 4-3 victory, the inevitable equaliser came for the jubilant visitors in the 90th minute when substitute Devlin cracked a powerful shot beyond Graham's reach and high into the net from 18 yards out on the right. 

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