JUST like last week the game was deep into injury time.

Just like last week the scores were locked at 2-2 and Wycombe were pushing for a much-needed winner.

Just like last week, the ball broke free to Kevin Betsy in the box.

But unlike last week, the midfielder couldn’t finish.

Unlike last week, he fired his shot straight at the keeper.

Unlike last week there was to be no fairytale ending to the match.

And now the Blues need favours from others to avoid an instant return to League Two, the division they took five years to escape from.

It is not over yet, but the fat lady is stepping onto the stage.

The point keeps Wycombe five points from safety with just six left on the table.

And agonisingly Betsy, a man who loves the Blues like the fans do, admitted that the chance was even better than the one he took at Stadium MK.

It seemed almost too good to be true when he found himself clean through and yards from goal – and it was.

Betsy said: “It was a better position than last week. It is unfortunate and we had some other good chances in the game but we just didn’t take them.

“I got a good connection on it. If I had scuffed it, it would have probably gone into the corner. The keeper was out quickly, but either side of him and it was in.”

Manager Gary Waddock said: “It was a glorious chance. Last week he took it, this week he didn’t, but I can’t take anything away from my players, they were excellent and didn’t get the result they deserved.”

Betsy was not the only Wanderers player to rue missed chances after the game with skipper Gareth Ainsworth and Alex Revell also both spurning good chances to earn Wycombe a win they needed and deserved against a team that are battling to achieve automatic promotion to the Championship.

Betsy said: “They are flying in the league but we made them look quite ordinary today. We outpassed them at times.”

Betsy and his Adams Park team-mate Alex Revell are now drinking in the last-chance saloon as they bid to avoid the ignomy of being relegated with two clubs this season.

Both began the campaign at Southend United, who fell through the relegation trapdoor on Saturday, leaving seven clubs left to battle it out to avoid the other two slots.

And Blues won’t give it up.

Betsy said: “Some teams have gone down today. We are still fighting and if we win our last two then we could be out of it.”

But Wanderers will have to defend better than they did on Saturday.

They needed to stay tight after twice taking the lead but they held it for four minutes the first time and six the second as Town twice hit back.

Waddock said: “We need to cut out the defensive errors at this stage of the season. First-half we were solid but if you give those types of players a sniff of goal then they will take it.”