Welling United bowed out of the London Senior Cup with a 3-2 defeat to Brentford B at Park View Road on Tuesday evening.
An entertaining affair saw the Wings pull themselves level twice with Martell Taylor-Crossdale and Deon Moore betting either side of half-time, before the Beees won the tie with the last kick of the game, deep into injury time.
A fairly even first half saw the hosts come close early on with Taylor-Crossdale’s effort from distance fizzing just wide, while Rhys Lovett made a good save from Chanse Headman’s header on the line at the other end.
Deon Moore saw a good-looking shot fly just wide from the edge of the box on the half-hour mark, but it would be the Bees who would open the scoring shortly after.
After Lovett had made a good initial save, Emeka Peters was on hand to put away the rebound to make it 1-0 to the west Londoners.
Welling would fight back to draw themselves level just before the break, however. Taylor-Crossdale found room in a busy box to dig out a fine finish which found the far right-hand corner to ensure the sides would head for the changing rooms at half-time on level terms.
Into the second period and Brentford nudged themselves ahead shortly after the restart from a set-piece – the Wings failed to clear their lines from a corner and Adam Poliakov was left to hammer home from close range.
But that lead would last a mere six minutes as the home side battled back for a second time.
Taylor-Crossdale came close to bagging his brace, only to be denied by an excellent save from Bees stopper Marley Tavaziva, but there was nothing he could do to stop Moore from finishing from a couple of yards out.
Tavaziva made a brilliant save to keep out Moore’s piledriver with 17 minutes remaining, while Brentford sub Conor Wolfheimer fired over from a good position in the box shortly after.
It looked like there would be nothing to separate the sides after 90 minutes and seemed for all the world that the tie would be decided on penalties.
The Bees, however, had other ideas and won it at the death with a winner in the sixth minute of injury time.
Frustratingly, it came from a Welling corner which was abruptly cleared and set Brentford on their way on a lightning-quick counter attack which was rounded off by Kaya Halil’s finish to ensure his side’s place in the semi-finals.
Welling United: Lovett, Statham, Quick, Di Trolio, H Walker (Bramble 29), Cornish, Kennedy (Davies 66), Kamara, Ballard-McBride, Moore (Redfearn 84), Taylor-Crossdale (Kashket 84).
Goals: Taylor-Crossdale 45+4,
Brentford B: Tavaziva, Shield, Williams, Avenell, Headman (Boni 65), Klimas, Peters, Honor (Halil 68), Dickov, Grey, Poliakov.
Subs (not used): Wolfheimer, Golding, Ivanov.
Booked: Halil 90+1
Goals: Evans 34, Poliakov 50, Halil 90+6
Referee: Tomy Breen
Att: TBC
(Photo: Pro Sports Images)
