{"id":13304,"date":"2026-04-18T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:09:57","slug":"exeter-city-3-3-stockport-county-grecians-keeper-bycroft-scores-96th-minute-leveller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13304","title":{"rendered":"Exeter City 3-3 Stockport County: Grecians keeper Bycroft scores 96th-minute leveller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Exeter goalkeeper Jack Bycroft scored a sensational equaliser deep into stoppage time to salvage a point for his side in a six-goal thriller with League One play-off hopefuls Stockport.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old shot-stopper went forward and powered home a brilliant header from Danny Andrew&#8217;s corner to keep alive Exeter&#8217;s survival hopes \u2013 as well as sparking celebrations for Cardiff, who were promoted when Stockport dropped points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An end-to-end encounter saw County strike first on nine minutes when a cross from Jack Diamond was not dealt with by the Exeter defence and Malik Mothersille was on hand to convert from eight yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mothersille turned provider on 29 minutes when he picked out the unmarked Josh Stokes who side-footed home from 10 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter responded quickly with a sweet half-volley by Reece Cole from the edge of the penalty box on 35 minutes \u2013 the midfielder finishing a move that he had started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">County had plenty of chances to kill the game off but were wasteful with their finishing. When they were on target, they found Bycroft in fine form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter levelled things up on 70 minutes when substitute Timur Tutierov volleyed in from Ilmari Niskanen&#8217;s cross, eight minutes after coming on, but County went back in front on 77 minutes when a Louie Barry shot hit the upright and substitute Odin Bailey reacted first to tuck in the rebound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both sides had chances but the last word went to Bycroft, who emerged the hero six minutes into stoppage time with the final act of a pulsating game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Report by PA Media.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exeter goalkeeper Jack Bycroft scored a sensational equaliser deep into stoppage time to salvage a point for his side in a six-goal thriller with League One play-off hopefuls Stockport. The 24-year-old shot-stopper went forward and powered home a brilliant header from Danny Andrew&#8217;s corner to keep alive Exeter&#8217;s survival hopes \u2013 as well as sparking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}