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Substitute Joe Lolley scored a cracking late equalizer as Nahki Wells and his Huddersfield Town teammates came from two down to draw 2-2 with Blackburn Rovers.
Lolley belted a low effort into the bottom right corner from 25 yards past former Town keeper Simon Eastwood on 84 minutes.
He latched on to a loose ball in the middle after Oscar Gobern had headed the ball into space.
It came just a minute after Town had the second of two goals controversially ruled out for off-side.
Gobern played in Scannell down the left and his cross was tapped in by Wells only for the flag to go up.
In the first half Ishmael Miller had a header from a Jacob Butterfield cross chalked off in a clearer cut decision than the later one.
Huddersfield started brightly but conceded two goals in five minutes mid-way through the first half.
Rookie home defender Joe Wilkinson, 19, had an unfortunate role in both goals on his debut.
Former Huddersfield striker Jordan Rhodes surged forward on 26 minutes and his shot fell for kindly for Rudy Gestede.
Wilkinson tried to block Gestede's effort but instead the ball looped up and bounced into the net.
Gestede has now scored five times in three matches after a hat-trick at Nottingham Forest and a goal against Millwall.
Strike partner Rhodes made it 2-0 with a trademark header after a Wilkinson blunder on 31 minutes.
A cross was going out of play when the defender intervened - with Rhodes punishing the lapse by crashing a header into the top corner.
In the process he became the first Blackburn player since Alan Shearer to score 20 goals in three successive seasons.
Rhodes left Huddersfield in 2012 for a club record £8million after bagging 73 goals in just 124 appearances.
Town started the game brightly with Eastwood saving a header from Mark Hudson in the opening seconds.
Miller and Nahki Wells also went close while Marcus Olsson and Paul Taylor shot wide from distance at the other end.
However Blackburn's two goals silenced the home crowd.
Huddersfield, seeking a first win over Rovers in 10 matches since 1999, were back in it when Miller was fouled by Tommy Spurr.
Butterfield curled in the resulting free-kick into the near post top corner from the right hand edge of the box on 39 minutes.
Wells and Rhodes traded chances before Lolley equalized.
REGGIE LAMBE
Despite a brave effort, Reggie Lambe and his Mansfield teammates failed to recover from the blow of having Ritchie Sutton sent off in the first minute as they lost 2-1 at home to Portsmouth.
Matt Tubbs bagged the resulting penalty in the second minute before Jed Wallace made it 2-0 from range on 55 minutes.
Teenager Jack Thomas' first senior goal kept the game alive on 67 minutes, but it wasn't enough to stop Portsmouth ending a run of six away games without a win and earning their first ever league win against Mansfield.
The game was only 50 seconds old when Chris Clements gave the ball away in midfield and Pompey broke quickly.
Matt Tubbs fed Jed Wallace to his left but, as he tried to finish, he was fouled by Sutton seven yards from goal.
The penalty was awarded and Sutton red-carded, Tubbs then sending Lenny Pidgeley the wrong way from the spot with two minutes on the watch.
After Jones had to make a save to deny Junior Brown just after the break, Wallace doubled Portsmouth's lead on 55 minutes. He let fly from 30 yards and the ball took a wicked bounce as the keeper dived and sailed high above him into the net.
But Mansfield were back in it on 67 minutes as teenager Thomas celebrated picking up four Player of the Season awards pre-match by curling a beauty into the top right corner from just outside the box on the left.
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