Portland 2
Borthwick, 42 Stuttle 53
Blackfield & Langley 2
Dougan, 90 Palmier, 90+4
Victory was snatched away from Portland in the dying seconds of their Wessex Premier clash with Blackfield & Langley
Goals from Greg Borthwick and George Stuttle had the Blues leading 2-0, but two quickfire goals in added time saw the points shared at the Camp and Satherley.
Kyle Critchell's side were also without Joe Wickham, Crit Clarke, Connor Callow, Josh Camp and Pat Jenkins for the tie.
Portland got off to a good start with Freddie Beale who cut in off the whip but his curling effort was saved by Harrison in the Blackfield goal.
With 25 minutes on the clock midfielder Lewis Toms watched his free kick come back off the post as the home side pushed for an opening goal.
Woolford then cam close with a volley before having a second effort saved.
Just before the break, Portland would get the break through as Borthwick who finished after some good play by Jacob Coombs.
After the break the Blues doubled their lead as Stuttle won the ball back in the opposition's half, took a touch, a let fly from distance leaving Harrison no chance.
Josh Williams was brough on for Coombs, whilst Jamie Cleaver replaced Borthwick and Hayden Scott came on for Lewis Toms as Critchell freshened up his side.
As the game entered the final 10 minutes Blackfield created a couple of shots but both efforts were off target.
Then with 90 minutes on the clock, Blackfield pulled one back after a chipped ball to the back post from Traynor found Dougan, and although Bruton got a hand to it it wasn't enough to keep the ball out of the back of the net.
Then as the final minutes of the game played out, Blues heart were broken following several set pieces the ball was bundled in by Ashton Palmier meaning the points were shared.
Speaking to the club's social media after the game Blues boss Cricthell said: "Look it was probably worse than last week, two nil up and I don't think they had really created any chances
"But when you are two nil down with 15 minutes to go you kind of throw as much as you can into the box and I think we ultimately lacked desire to get first contact on those balls and when you are not willing to do that you get punished.
"We definitely didn't deserve to draw two all. I thought for 70 minutes we controlled the game we had good triggers and traps. we should have scored more but two should have been enough to win the game."
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