For not the first time of the season, a last gasp goal proved the killer blow and denied Aylesbury a share of the spoils, as Chesham left Bell Close with a 1-0 win.

The visitors had most of the pressure over the course of the game, so will feel their victory was justified. However, the Ducks had defended doggedly in keeping with recent matches (Marlow excepted) and looked set to be rewarded with a point.

Chesham had other ideas though, and it was none other than former Aylesbury skipper Nick Leach who popped up to head his side to victory from a free-kick delivery on the 90 minute mark.

The opening twenty minutes belonged to the visitors who knocked at the green door without being able to find a way through.

A free header at a corner for Sam Ledger ended with the ball dropping over the bar, and two minutes later Steve Wales turned in midfield and struck an ambitious drive which flew past the upright before Nick Leach joined in with a header from Talbot?s corner over the bar.

Jack Sillitoe was called into action for the first time on 10 minutes by Wales who struck a lofted shot which had to be tipped wide by the back peddling keeper after the ball had dropped kindly to the Chesham man.

John Frendo should have opened the scoring for the visitors when he was picked out with a raking cross field pass and he made space for the shot well but fired wide from just five-yards out.

Sillitoe saved another Frendo effort shortly afterwards, before Aylesbury had their first efforts at goal when both Montgomery and McBride saw shots blocked in the box after Taylor?s long throw.

This was to mark the start of a better spell for Aylesbury who had a few moments of pressure, but the next attempt still went the visitors? way when a rare error of judgement by Toms let Frendo in for a shot at goal but Sillitoe came out on top again with a low save.

At the other end there were a couple more reminders for Chesham that they wouldn?t have things all their own way as Leach made a good recovery to clear the ball after McBride?s superb pass had momentarily released Montgomery. From the resulting corner the ball was redelivered by Taylor where goalkeeper Hayward just beat the waiting Pringle to the punch.

Half-time: Aylesbury 0-0 Chesham

After the break proceedings were more even to begin with, but it continued to be the visitors who had the better of the few chances available and Wales produced a tame effort straight at Sillitoe from a long ball.

The closest the Ducks came to scoring came from the head of James Nash on 57 minutes. A deep free kick was headed back across goal where Nash flung himself at the ball but his header cracked the inside of the post and rebounded out.

As the match continued it needed a spark from somewhere, and both sides made changes to try and find it as Ashley Harewood entered the fray for Aylesbury.

It was the home side who then went close when firstly McBride?s shot was blocked by a combination of defender and keeper having been released by Harewood?s cross field pass. The resulting corner was met by Taylor but he saw his header cleared by John Kyriacou on the line.

Sam Ledger twice went close with a deflected shot, then a header which went over the goal as the ball bounced up to him, and Chesham?s struggles in front of goal were then summed up as substitute Darrel Cox blazed a shot well over the bar and somewhere into Leighton Buzzard.

Cox wasted another chance, heading wide from Ledger?s ball in but it was only the visitors looking likely to find a breakthrough.

Frendo resume his personal duel with Sillitoe with a well hit half-volley which produced the best stop of the match ? a flying save to tip the ball wide. He followed that up with a sharp turn and shot in the area which Sillitoe was again equal to, turning the ball wide of the near post.

Aylesbury were having to work hard to keep Chesham at bay, and a hard tackle from Ashleigh James in midfield evoked a furious reaction from the visiting dugout and indeed some referees may have chosen to show a different colour card to the yellow he received.

There was more drama to follow, as on 85 minutes the Generals had the ball in the net. Hayward took a free-kick from within his own half, the ball sailing into the net over the helpless Sillitoe?s head. Referee Mr Fielding immediately ruled the effort out though due to it being an indirect kick as the free-kick had been awarded for offside.

The Ducks looked to have survived unscathed, but in the very last minute their set piece nemesis reared its ugly head once more. A free-kick launched into the box was met by Leach, who didn?t make clean contact with the ball, but his header snuck into the bottom corner past the despairing dive of Sillitoe to win the game. 1-0 Chesham

It was another one of so many cruel twists and turns in this long season of Aylesbury?s, but the Ducks need to pick themselves up quickly with another game at Bell Close just two days away.