Footballers must dream of situations like it. Three minutes into injury time. 2-1 down. A dangerous cross from the wing to attack. Get a run on your man. First contact. Close range header. Keeper no chance. 2-2.
Connor Taylor produced such a moment at the Abbey Stadium on Tuesday evening. The only problem for him is that he is a Wycombe Wanderers defender and his header was inexplicably into his own net, turning three points for his side into one and salvaging a draw for Cambridge United which had seemed a distant possibility since the moment Jayden Wareham had put Wycombe ahead just before half time.
Wareham’s second soon after the hour made it the first instance of United going 2-0 down all season. They’d only gone two behind four times, 2-0 thrice and 3-1 once, in the entire League Two campaign last year, only one of which came after October. Still they came back to grab a point.
Losing is seen to be a habit. When things are going against you teams transpire to lose even if they don’t deserve it. Cambridge United are taking the opposite approach. They can barely stop collecting points from losing positions; in their last eight League One games they’ve been behind in six of them, scored a goal in the 89th minute onwards to change the final outcome in four, been beaten in none.
