FC Halifax Town 3 Boreham Wood 2: Connor Hughes the hero as he fires last-gasp winner

Things were looking rosy at half-time as Halifax led 2-0 but a second-half fightback looked to have cost them two points.

A dinked cross from Peniket was bundled over the line by Jordan Burrow for his first league goal since November 28.

Five minutes later it got even better when James Bolton headed in Scott McManus’s corner.

Boreham Wood’s, and they halved the deficit when Dan Woodards’s fine cross from the left was met by White.

Halifax’s reaction to that goal was positive though, as Hughes and Jordan Burrow, twice, went close.

The lead was only just preserved when Sam Johnson parried Sam-Yorke’s long-range shot and Bolton put his body on the line to see off the danger from the rebound.

That was a warning though as Halifax lost possession cheaply at one end and were punished at the other as a quick break culminated in Lucas sweeping the ball past Johnson left-footed.

Then with almost the last kick of the game, Hughes’s rocket of a shot fired Halifax back into the lead through a packed penalty box.

FC Halifax Town: Johnson, Bolton, Bencherif, Roberts, McManus, Wroe, James, Hibbs, J Macdonald (Hughes 57), Peniket (S McDonald 76). Unused substitutes: Porter, Fairhurst, Fazlic.

Boreham Wood: Russell, Nunn, Doe, Reynolds, Woodards, Shakes, Clifford, Kamdjo, Haynes (Sam-Yorke 29), Lucas (Howell 89), White. Unused substitutes: Cox, Stephens, Devera.

Referee: Robert Jones (Merseyside).