YOU can forget penalty shoot-outs, this is what real Cup-tie drama is all about.

Substitutes who scored with their first touch of the game. A last minute equaliser. Blatant penalty appeals, turned down with only minutes on the clock and a dramatic winner scored in the dying seconds of extra time.

What more could you ask for? If opposing managers, John Wilkin and Andy Entwistle, had sat down prior to the game and wrote the script, they couldn't have come up with a better plot.

And since these two teams had battled out a 2-2 draw in the league last Saturday, it was all systems go, as they took up from where they left off seven days ago.

CDS stormed into the lead with a goal in the sixth minute when Rob Gordon collected the ball wide on the left, cut inside and hit a powerful drive well beyond the reach of Oaklea keeper, Edward Tomlinson.

Adam Admundson went close for Oaklea with a snap shot just wide of the post, but CDS, looking to increase their lead, had their previously unbeaten opponents rocking, when a Graham Tattersall header needed a fine save from Tomlinson and then John Baron hit a fierce shot into the side netting.

Oaklea looked far more positive once Matt Pickup and Danny Clarke picked up the tempo in midfield and good efforts from Clarke and Rob Gordon just failed to find the target.

After the break Oaklea turned the game on its head with two goals in as many minutes. Anthony Ginn, a 52nd minute substitution, made an immediate impact as he rose to meet a Danny Clarke cross and head a sensational equaliser with his first touch of the ball.

Two minutes later Oaklea were celebrating again as Ben Greenwood linked well with Ray Thistlethwaite on the right to split the CDS defence and Greenwood hit a terrific angled shot past Dale Moore from 15 yards out.

CDS hit back with a Graham Tattersall shot that flew wide of the post and a scorching 20 yard hot from Mark Johnson that had Tomlinson at full stretch a he tipped the ball over the bar. Tomlinson then threw himself at a Rob Gordon effort blocking his shot with his body and, when Glen Barnes laid off a delightful ball into the path of Tattersall to hit the base of the post in the 88th minute, it looked as if CDS's pressure would count for nothing.

But, with the whistle poised in Mr Galpin's lips to signal the end of the game, Rob Gordon grabbed a last minute lifeline when he pounced on a loose ball inside the penalty area and smashed home a dramatic equaliser.

The game went into extra time with both sides going all out to clinch the tie. Adam Edmundson hit a shot just over the bar and Matt Pickup forced a save from Dale Moore. A 30-yard drive from Stuart Hounslow produced a good save from Tomlinson but as the game drew to a close it seemed a penalty shoot-out would have to settle matters.

Indeed, it was a penalty that should have decided the game. With less than three minutes to go Pete Rowbottom stormed into the Oaklea penalty area and was tripped with the goal at his mercy.

To the dismay of his team mates and the spread-eagled Rowbottom, Mr Galpin waved play on and with that, CDS's dreams of cup victory disappeared as Oaklea promptly hit the ball upfield and snatched the winner.

A Jimmy Owen pass found Donald Brady on the left hand side of the CDS penalty area and he beat Moore with a shot low inside the post. Ecstasy for Oaklea, Agony for CDS and for the neutrals on the sidelines - one hell of a Cup-tie.

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