Wycombe Wanderers 3, Chesterfield 2.

STUART Beavon struck a priceless winner deep into injury time as Blues sealed a vital victory.

In the last minute of the game, Blues' top scorer climbed above visiting goalkeeper Tommy Lee to head home the game's fifth goal as Wanderers twice came from behind to win a crucial six pointer.

Loan signings Anthony McNamee and Marcello Trotta had earlier levelled things up in the battle of the basement boys to give fans and players belief Wycombe can stay up.

That late strike eclipsed even McNamee’s goal of the season contender, as he slammed home a jaw-dropping volley, which looked to be the turning point.

But Blues fans will be concerned at the goals their side is letting in at the moment and a dreadful piece of defending almost condemned them to defeat. Nobody made any effort to clear a goalkick and allowed Dean Morgan the time and space to fire home what looked like being the goal that would send Blues to the bottom of the table.

The blackest spot for Wanderers fans was the serious injury to midfield playmaker Scott Donnelly, who was stretchered off after a seemingly innocuous turn. There was no one near him but he fell to the floor and signalled straight to the bench with ten minutes played.

Wanderers needed a positive start but they got the complete opposite, as they were behind inside four minutes. Donnelly’s corner was plucked out the air with minimal fuss by goalkeeper Lee, who freed Alex Mendy. A quick pass to Craig Westcarr and a low ball in to the far post for Morgan later and Chesterfield were in front as Blues conceded first for the eighth game running.

It stunned Adams Park into silence and sapped the morale of the home players, who allowed Leon Clarke time to get a shot in but it clattered away off a defender.

It got even worse as Donnelly was forced off, although his replacement Matt Bloomfield almost conjured an instant equaliser with his very first touch of the game as the ball clipped into the side netting off a defender. Joel Grant then fired wide from the corner that followed.

There was precious little in terms of goalmouth action from either side in a dour clash.

That was until McNamee’s stunning contribution to proceedings, which came after the mother of all goalmouth scrambles.

Loan striker Trotta had a shot blocked, Leon Johnson’s follow-up was cleared off the line by Aaron Downes and Dave Winfield, of all people, smacked the rebound from that onto the angle of post and bar with a volleyed shot.

The Spireites could only clear the ball as far as McNamee, loitering with intent on the edge of the box, and the winger spanked it into the top corner with a stunning well-controlled volley that gave Lee absolutely no chance.

Top scorer Beavon was a whisker away from getting his head onto a terrific Grant Basey delivery before curling the ball on target after breaking the offside trap, but it was too close to Lee to cause Chesterfield too many problems.

He was his usually effervescent best at the start of the second half with a driving run that parted the visiting defence, before McNamee sent a shot over the bar at the end of it.

A deflected Grant effort forced Lee to sprawl low down to turn the ball round the post, and Basey was unfortunate to see a flicked header from the corner that followed glance onto the roof of the net.

Then out of nowhere Chesterfield went back in front with a dreadful goal to concede.

It was on a par with the one Blues let in at Rochdale in October as a long clearance downfield from Lee was missed by everyone in the home defence and the ball dropped into the path of Morgan to thump past a helpless Nikki Bull.

Beavon’s shot on the turn skipped up into Lee’s midriff as Blues searched for an instant response but that was extent of the fightback.

The front two had little service to work with as Beavon had to drop deeper and deeper to try and make things happen.

No new faces were looking to appear from the substitute’s bench with time running out and Wanderers needing something to freshen things up, and Mendy almost settled things but saw his low shot skittle inches wide.

Then out of the blue came a priceless equaliser, as the ball dropped to Trotta to fire into the bottom corner beyond the despairing Lee from outside the box.

And the Italian wasted an even better chance to win it moments later when strike partner Beavon turned sublimely before laying it into his path, but he somehow blasted it over the bar from six yards.

Not that it mattered after the late drama. Bull cleared downfield, a Chesterfield defender misdirected his clearance back into the six yard area and Beavon leaped highest to head past Lee for a vital winner.

Wanderers: Bull, McCoy, Winfield, Johnson, Basey, Grant, Lewis, Donnelly (sub Bloomfield), McNamee, Trotta, Beavon. Substitutes not used: Foster, Ainsworth, Strevens, Harris.

Attendance: 4,320