Burgess Hill Town exited this seasons Emirates FA Cup as Amersham Town provided a cup upset securing a last minute 3-2 victory.

The visitors have enjoyed an excellent start to the season and this continued with this win at HomeCall Carpets Community Stadium as Louis Stead was the hero of the afternoon for the visiting Magpies.

Hill were forced into a few changes from the midweek win due to a few injuries and Marcel Powell was cup tied so unable to play.

Amersham flew out of the traps and had a huge chance early on as a corner comes in and an unmarked Magpie should score but heads over.

The visitors continued to press and again should have scored as Sidney Gueye is clean through and fires it into the trees with just Slav Huk to beat. Amersham again went very close as Huk comes and then quickly retreats and they try and chip him but it goes inches over.

Amersham got the goal they richly deserved for such a fine start on 15 minutes. Gueye gets to the ball ahead of Huk and it falls to Jake Tabor who composes himself and thumps it past defenders and into the net.

Despite it being all Amersham the Hillians found an equaliser six minutes later as Kieran Rowe flicks it through to Hamish Morrison who does brilliantly to break clear and equalise past Xavier Comas Leon for his first Hillians goal.

Within two minutes the visitors retook the lead. A corner comes in and 2 Hill players collide leaving a simple tap in from a yard for Samir Shaffi.

Hill attempted to find another equaliser as Brannon O’Neill swung in a free kick in which Rowe meets but gets too much on it. Another guilt edge chance comes and goes for the Magpies, Gueye is clean through again but hits it miles over.

The half ended with a chance for each side as Nathan Cooper flies in at the back post but can only hook over the bar and at the other end Amersham missed another guilt edged chance.

Forwards Dan Perry and Alex Brewer came on at half time as the Hill looked to get back into the game.

Amersham work it nicely down the right but fire high over the bar on 56 minutes and then Rowe curled one over the bar.

Hill were starting to create a few chances and on 63 minutes Ben Pope pings a tremendous ball to Brewer who fires it across for Perry who can’t convert.

The hosts thought they should have been awarded a penalty as Perry goes down under a challenge in the box but the referee was having none of it.

Hillians finally equalised with 7 minutes remaining as Joe Overy dances down the left and squares for Dan Perry to slam home his 72nd Hill goal.

As the game looked to be heading for a replay the visitors won it in the 7th minute of stoppage time. Slav Huk made a superb save from a diving header deep in added time and from the resulting corner Stead won it to send the visitors wild and send them through to the 3rd qualifying round.

Hill: Slav Huk, Hamish Morrison, Reggie Ward, Ryan Worrall, Nathan Cooper, Brannon O’Neill, Ollie Davies (Dan Perry 46), Kieran Rowe, Ben Pope, Harry Lawson (Alex Brewer 46), Joe Overy. Subs not used: Alex Malins, Bobby Price, Charlie Bonwick-Adams

Pic by Phil Dennett