Swindon 2 Walsall 2 

Npower League One

 

RESULT: Swindon Town 2 Walsall 2

 

Swindon scorers: Williams 11, Ferry 79

Coventry scorer: Grigg 32 (pen), Paterson 90

Swindon dropped more points at home in their promotion push after letting Walsall twice come from behind.

 

The visitors' second equaliser came with just sixty seconds left to leave Town frustratingly without a win at the County Ground since Di Canio was manager.

 

The result means Swindon lie third in League One with just 3 points from their last four home games.

 

Early goal

 

Town earlier took the lead when Andy Williams deflected shot found the net after only 11 minutes.

 

Two in Two Games: Andy Williams receives congratulations after putting Town one-up Sport Swindon

 

But when Walsall were controversially awarded a penalty just after the half-hour, the Robins were pegged back.

 

Two second-half substitutes, however, injected some much-needed energy into Town's attacking options, a move which was eventually rewarded when Simon Ferry latched onto a goalkeeping parry to score with ten minutes left.

 

Walsall, though, failed to give up and with Town sitting back on their lead - and Nathan Thompson subbed with an injury - Jamie Paterson found the space to head past Foderingham at the death.

 

"We should have kicked on after scoring, but we didn't," commented new boss Kevin MacDonald.

 

The top of League One:

 

1 Doncaster 37 17 68
2 Sheff Utd 36 21 65

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3 Swindon Town 36 33 63
4 Tranmere 37 18 63
5 Yeovil 36 14 62
6 Brentford 36 12 61

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7 Bournemouth 37 9 58
8 Coventry 37 14 56
9 Walsall 37 3 56
10 Notts County 37 13 54

 

NEXT GAME:

 

Brentford (A)
Tuesday 12 March 2013

League One