By Garry Clarke
Warrington Rylands 1-2 Chorley
Despite Warrington Rylands being the better side for large parts of the game, two goals in the last five minutes saw National League North Chorley come out on top in an entertaining pre-season friendly on a balmy evening at Gorsey Lane.
Chorley started the better of the two teams with Justin Johnson drawing a good save from Graeme McCall before Rylands opened the scoring after a fairly quiet opening quarter of an hour; Callum Dolan firing in from distance, Chorley goalkeeper Matt Urwin got a hand to the ball but couldn’t keep it out.
Rylands almost made it two a couple of minutes later as Kane Drummond went one-on-one with Urwin but couldn’t convert his effort after trying to go round the Chorley stopper. Urwin also saved well to twice deny Dolan later in the first half.
Chorley ended the first half with Harry Scarborough and Will Tomlinson both firing narrowly wide of the target.
Rylands were in the ascendancy for most of the second half, having several opportunities to double their advantage but were denied by several good saves from Urwin and desperate defending from his black and white colleagues.
As the half progressed Chorley started to come back into the game but had to wait until the 87th minute for Adam Blakeman to level the game with a free-kick to level the game from 30 yards.
Two minutes later a ball played over the top of the Rylands defence found Connor Hall who capitalised on a lapse in concentration from the Blues defence to slot the ball past McCall.
Rylands McCall; Walker (Buxton, 68′), Hunt, Morris (Egerton, 68′), Neild (Lacey, 68′), Langley (Irwin, 68′), Barrigan (Smith, 68′), Furman (Webb, 68′), Drummond, Dolan (Gerrard, 68′), Brooke.
Chorley Urwin; Price-Jordan (Henley, 46′), Wilson, Isherwood (Blakeman, 46′), Leather (c) (Smith, 81′), Spencer-McDermott (Okome, 46′), Whitehouse, Scarborough (Calveley, 46′), Hall, Tomlinson (Trialist, 72′), Johnson (Birchall, 90′).
Attendance 342
