STANLEY fans must have thought new defender Kieran Charnock had the golden touch after two games and two wins in his Reds career.

The Peterborough loanee had only enjoyed success at the FES and so he admitted his first Reds’ defeat was hard to take on Saturday - especially with league leaders Wycombe scoring a controversial late goal to end his 100 per cent Stanley record.

Wanderers winger Chris Zebroski, although looking off-side, raced onto the ball following a long kick forward from keeper Scott Shearer with 90 minutes on the clock.

The 21-year-old slid the ball past the outrushing Kenny Arthur despite big appeals from Chris King and Charnock who were racing back to try and deny him.

"I am just devastated especially as it was so late in the game," said the ex-Northwich man.

"It was hard to say whether he was off-side or not - it was one big kick by their keeper, though.

"I guess at that stage in the game we should have just dealt with it and got anything on it but it didn’t happen.

"And we deserved something out of the game. They were well organised but they did not really come here and have a go,

"I was looking for a third win in a row - that would have been great - and that is what makes it so difficult, to concede so late."

Both managers were not sure about the late goal - and even television replays didn’t clear the incident up.

Wycombe boss Peter Taylor said: "I don’t know all I can say is that Chris has got pace and he can beat the off-side trap. Hopefully that is the case."

Stanley manager John Coleman put the blame on himself rather than the assistant referee who didn’t raise his flag. "I have got to take full responsibility for the goal. I told them (the defence) to hold the line and they were following orders.

"In retrospect, they should have dropped back and headed it away. Unfortunately it went against us.

"It was a sickener to lose in stoppage time. Kenny had made three world class saves but we deserved something out of the game."

The first half was dour with limited chances in a rainy East Lancashire but Accrington did match the league leaders player for player.

Although Wanderers did enjoy the early possession - with a Simon Church effort across goal their best chance - Stanley came more into it on 25 minutes with Paul Mullin looping a header over from a John Miles’ corner.

And the Reds should have made a breakthrough after the interval when Terry Gornell had a header cleared off the line by Gary Holt with appeals from the Reds that it had gone over.

Stanley were on top and defender Robbie Williams wasted a good chance by crossing straight into keeper Shearer's arms with his team-mates lining up in the area.

However, on the hour, the unbeaten leaders then began to carve out the better opportunities.

First Stanley keeper Arthur's attempted punch landed nicely for Zebroski and his header was cleared off the line by Phil Edwards.

Then Matt Harrold couldn’t connect properly with the ball four yards out while next Arthur one-handedly tipped over Franck Moussa's effort.

Substitute Matt Phillips saw his strike skim across the face of goal while, with just five minutes left Arthur superbly tipped over a powerful Harrold header.

It seemed destined to end in a stalemate although Gornell had a late chance to nick a third straight win for the Reds but he had another effort cleared off the line following a frantic scramble.

Stanley looked like it was going to be their first goalless league home draw in almost four years until Zebroski’s contentious goal.

"I cannot take any positives - we know we are a match for anyone in this league and that’s why it is so disappointing," said Coleman.