Mossley finally picked up their first League win of the season at Seel Park on Saturday when they edged home by the odd goal in seven against rivals Ramsbottom United, the Lilywhites second successive 4-3 win.

It was a game Mossley could have won more comfortably, but having come from a goal behind at the interval, Mossley led 3-1, were pegged back to 3-3 and won a remarkable game with a dramatic goal in stoppage time.

The game opened at a good tempo but after the visitors had hit the bar with a Gaskell header in the 5th minute Mossley began to take control of the game. Andy Keogh and John Bennett were controlling the central midfield area and strikers Danny Broadbent and Wayne Welbeck were seeing plenty of the ball.

Rams keeper Grant Shenton made the first of a string of fine saves as he turned away Keogh's goal bound volley. Broadbent then went around Shenton but stumbled as he tried to convert from a tight angle and the same player fired narrowly wide from 20 yards moments later.

The visitors then shocked Mossley by taking the lead against the run of play on 19 minutes when Gaskell latched on to a misplaced header and crossed low from the right for the in rushing Phil Dean to tap home from close range.

Mossley perhaps ought to have equalised minutes later when Tom Pratt headed over from Phil Drummond's deep left wing cross before Shenton tipped over Lewis Nightingale's whipped free kick as Mossley finished the first half in the ascendancy. This despite losing Broadbent to a thigh injury on 37 minutes with Dougie carroll his straight replacement.

Mossley found their belated equaliser three minutes after the turnaround when Wayne Welbeck latched on to a Keogh through ball and fed across the edge of the six yard box for substitute Dougie Carroll to place home.

However, Mossley were not to be denied and forged ahead on 52 minutes. This time it was Carroll who controlled a through ball and laid the ball into the path of Wayne Welbeck who easily outpaced his marker to gleefully ram the ball home from 12 yards.

Mossley were dominant and Carroll was involved again soon after as he pulled the ball back for Tom Pratt, but the on loan Bury player fired over from a good position, but, it took only until the 58th minute for Mossley to bag their third. Again Carroll was involved as Shenton twice blocked his shots from a Mossley set piece before the ball broke to the edge of the box and Charlie Anderson volleyed home.

The Lilywhites then wasted several glorious opportunities to increase the lead as Shenton saved Pratt's volley, and also did well to turn Bennett powerful drive onto the post and the keeper then acrobatically tipped over Ryan Marley's goal bound looping header and Nightingale went close with a strong drive.

Mossley were to rue the missed chances though as the Rams pulled one back 74 minutes as substitute Tom Brooks tapped home after Saunders had parried Gaskell's shot in a by now rare Ramsbottom raid.

Mossley began to sit deeper and the chances dried up as they defended stoically until three minutes from when Mossley didn't clear a corner and Brooks pounced to seemingly break Mossley hearts with a late 87th minute equaliser.

The visitors might have sensed a surprise victory at this stage but it was the gallant Lilywhites who wrapped up the win as the game slipped into stoppage time. The hardworking Tom Pratt won a corner on the right, Lewis Nightingale fired in a superb ball to the near post and Andy Keogh arrived to meet it and joyously plant a firm header past the stranded Shenton to seal a dramatic and fully deserved first League victory of the season.

Report by Wizard