Late heartbreak for Guernsey in 5-4 Moneyfields loss
Ross Allen took his Guernsey FC goal tally to 301 - but his two missed penalties ultimately cost his side a crucial three points
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Guernsey FC were left heartbroken after conceding twice in the final minutes to lose 5-4 at home to Moneyfields in Isthmian League South Central.
Record goalscorer Ross Allen - who had missed two penalties in a game for the first time in his Guernsey career - scored what seemed to be an 87th-minute winner for the Green Lions.
But Tom Cain levelled from close range in the 90th minute before James Franklyn's deflected strike in the seventh minute of stoppage time secured a win for the visitors as they went ahead for the first time.
The loss leaves Guernsey second-from-bottom in the table and six points adrift from safety after an 11th loss in 16 games this season.
"You really couldn't make this up," Guernsey FC director Nic Legg told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"Seeing a Ross Allen missed penalty - the first penalty was saved - is a very rare thing to happen, but then to have Ross miss a second penalty as well.
"Sometimes when you see things like that you wonder whether it's going to be your day, but even in that circumstance we were still very much in the driving seat.
"When Ross Allen scores with three minutes to go in the 87th minute and we're 4-3 ahead you think 'what a game' and you're almost celebrating the three points.
"Then to see them get the equaliser with 90 minutes on the clock and then seven minutes get added on and they somehow manage to snatch that winner it was really hard thing to take because as we started off so well."
Owen Wallbridge had given the islanders a third-minute lead before Marco De Sousa pulled one back 12 minutes later.
But Matt Loaring and Charlton Gauvain found the net either side of Allen's first missed penalty to see Guernsey lead 3-1 at the break.
Jafer Mahhammedkier made it 3-2 after an hour before Allen slipped taking his second penalty and saw it fly high over the crossbar.
Mahhammedkier drew Moneyfields level with eight minutes left before Allen got what he thought would be the winner, only for the visitors' late exploits to secure the win.