Bradford Park Avenue 2 AFC Fylde 2

AN excellent FA Cup tie ended with the right result, which means Bradford Park Avenue and AFC Fylde will have it all to do again on the west coast on Tuesday night.

Both sides had gone all out to win it but a battling Avenue twice came from behind to earn a replay.

Fylde dominated long spells but Richard Marshall's 88th-minute leveller was just rewards for the home side's efforts.

Bradford came close to opening the scoring when skipper Nathan Hotte’s 11th-minute shot crashed down off the underside of the bar and was cleared for a throw-in.

Then just three minutes later they were behind for the first time after conceding a corner kick. Avenue keeper John Danby reacted quickly to parry a glancing header from Danny Rowe but Liam Tomsett pounced to net the rebound.

Fylde almost doubled their lead but Michael Potts’ low shot from the edge of the area clipped the base of Danby’s post on its way wide.

Soon after, Avenue’s Scott Kerr had a shot blocked and Chib Chilaka had a penalty appeal waved away as he tried to control the rebound.

Another set-piece almost undid Avenue just before the half-hour mark. Danby had done well to tip a snap-shot over for a corner and when the flag kick was whipped in, Tom Hannigan’s header dropped on top of the bar.

Having twice been denied by the woodwork, Fylde could have gone in at half-time trailing as Avenue finished the half strongly. Billy Priestley inexplicably headed wide after Kerr’s clever chip had found him in acres of space on the edge of the six-yard box.

Chilaka finally equalised with an acrobatic effort, reaching high to stab in a ball that had bounced just in front of him.

Visiting keeper Ben Hinchliffe claimed a low ball in from Joe Colbeck with Chilaka hovering and Grant Black blazed over following a stoppage-time corner.

Fylde made a double substitution in the 64th minute and the changes almost paid off immediately. Potts had made way for Joe Booth and his first touch was a glancing header that came back off Danby’s right-hand post.

With 18 minutes to go Fylde retook the lead when Michael Barnes volleyed in at the far post.

Barnes and Rowe combined to force Danby into a good save in the 88th minute but he began a counter-attack that saw Colbeck denied by Hinchliffe at the expense of a corner, from which Avenue substitute Marshall levelled the scores with a powerful header.