GAMES rarely come more one-sided than this, but even teams as comprehensively outplayed as Flixton sometimes get lucky and steal a point.

It happened at Victory Park last night where for long periods, especially in the first half, the visitors goalmouth resembled a shooting gallery.

But crucially only one shot hit the net and Flixton, who did not win a corner let alone muster a threatening shot in the entire game, snatched a draw from John Hudson's 79th minute free kick which took a massive deflection through the Magpies' defensive wall and past a wrong-footed Simon Marsh.

Rampant Chorley repeatedly opened up the visitors in a first half that was really no contest, but Flixton keeper Keith Neild kept his side in the game, courageously blocking fierce shots from Keith Evans and Adam Critchley and producing a flying save to pluck a Simon Kay header from the top corner of the goal.

Other efforts fizzed narrowly wide, but Evans made the breakthrough on 35 minutes, racing in to nod home a Neil Mitchell corner at the near post.

The expected second half goal-rush however, never materialised as Flixton tightened up at the back, though Critchley headed against the bar with the keeper for once well-beaten. And Flixton survived again in the last minute when an inswinging corner was headed off the line.

Great escapes don't come any greater than this.

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