Looking Back to a previous game with Salford
By Ray Simpson
As we build up towards Saturday’s away game at Salford, we look back at a thriller at Salford two se...
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Nathan Cartman scores the winner at Salford[/caption]
13th February 2016
Salford City 3 Darlington 4
There haven’t been many more dramatic games in the club’s recent history than this one at Moor Lane. Quakers were two goals behind twice and still won!
Salford took the lead on 22 minutes, when a free kick from the left went to the far post, where Josh Hine beat Peter Jameson with a looping header.
It was 2-0 on 24 minutes, a deep free kick to the far post from inside the Salford half was nodded down by Steve Howson for Chris Lynch to sidefoot home.
Quakers were denied a goal on 40 minutes when Stephen Thompson hit a right foot shot that struck the right hand post, and new signing Liam Hardy’s follow up was blocked. Thompson also had a pretty valid penalty appeal turned down.
Quakers kept plugging away and pulled a goal back on 59 minutes. Lee Gaskell cut in from the left, tried to square the ball for Thompson, but the ball bounced off a defender for Tom Portas, who kept his cool and slotted the ball past Lynch.
But Salford went up the other end and went 3-1 up. John Johnston put a low cross into the middle, Peter Jameson hesitated, and that allowed Danny Webber to nip in front of him and score.
Then, the best Darlo comeback in recent years started. Quakers made it 3-2 on 69 minutes, when Thompson cleverly sent Gaskell running through, and he coolly lifted the ball over the advancing keeper for his 12th goal of the season.
Quakers levelled on 78 minutes, when sub Graeme Armstrong fired the ball across the face of goal for Gaskell to turn in unmarked at the far post.
They kept pressing forward, and they got the winner on 85 minutes, when Terry Galbraith flicked on Phil Turnbull's free kick for Nathan Cartman to guide the ball home and spark wild celebrations with the fans. What a moment!
Darlington: Jameson, Hunter, Brown, Burgess, Galbraith, Mitchell, Scott, Turnbull, Thompson (sub Cartman 69), Gaskell (sub Nowakowski 90+1), Hardy (sub Armstrong 65).
