Chesterfield 3-3 Ebbsfleet United: Will Evans scores equaliser and saves penalty
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Former Eastleigh man Will Evans joined Chesterfield from Aldershot in 2018
As meaningful contributions during stoppage time go, you'll go a long way to beat the efforts of Will Evans.
Not content with scoring a 95th-minute equaliser for Chesterfield against Ebbsfleet, the Spireites defender then went in goal to save a penalty as his struggling team came from 3-0 down to dramatically draw 3-3 with Ebbsfleet.
Home goalkeeper Callum Burton was sent off for tangling with Michael Cheek in the box and Evans stood in as a makeshift keeper and saved Cheek's penalty to preserve the point.
A penalty from Cheek and strikes from Cody McDonald and Bagasan Graham had seemingly left the hosts with no chance at half-time.
But substitute Tom Denton and Marc-Antoine Fortune pulled back goals in the second half to start the comeback.
Evans nodded in the leveller five minutes into added time, but it was not quite the end of his stunning late contribution, in one of the games of the National League season.