Accrington Stanley missed out on the chance to move into the automatic promotion places with a 1-1 draw at home to Cambridge United on Saturday.
Tarique Fosu scored his first goal for Stanley, as he came off the bench to cancel out Jimmy Spencer’s goal and continue Accrington’s impressive run of scoring in every home game this season.
Despite John Coleman’s side getting off to a strong start, the better chances of the first half fell to the visitors.
Two blocks in five minutes from Brad Halliday, denied Cambridge captain Luke Berry from opening the scoring and kept the scores level at the interval.
After the break, the visitors were enjoying the swing in momentum, Ross Etheridge somehow managed to get to Ryan Ledson’s deflected shot before Spencer opened the scoring.
The striker got on the end of a long ball with a delicate touch with just Tom Davies to beat, but the defender got a touch and somehow the ball bounced off Spencer and nestled into the corner.
Accrington thought they had an equalizer moments later when Matty Pearson’s header was clawed away to the oncoming Shay McCartan, but his shot was blocked and cleared away.
However, they were level when substitute Fosu raced clear to get on the end of a defence splitting through-ball and calmly slotted the ball past the outstretched Cambridge keeper.
The result means Accrington stay in the hunt for an automatic promotion place, but drop down to fifth in the table following Bristol Rovers 3-0 win at home to Crawley.
