Nahki Wells marked his 200th league appearance with a dramatic late penalty to earn Huddersfield Town a draw in their FA Cup third round tie against Reading yesterday.

Wells struck after Harry Bunn was brought down inside the penalty area, saving a game that his side seemed destined to lose after Hal Ribson-Kanu put the visiting team ahead in the 87th minute.

A goalless first half, during which Wells was denied several times by Ali Al-Habsi, the Reading goalkeeper, gave way to an incident-packed second.

Al-Habsi denied Bunn shortly after the break, before Huddersfield finally make the breakthrough when Jamie Patterson headed home a Jason Davidson cross on 57 minutes.

The home side thought they should have had a penalty shortly after, when Wells was brought down by Al-Habsi has he raced to get on to the end of Joe Lolley’s cross, however, instead of awarding the penalty the referee booked Wells for diving.

Insult was then added to Huddersfield’s sense of injustice when Reading equalised in the 71st minute through Matej Vydra, who finished off a move that appeared to start with Wells being fouled inside the Reading half.

It took a smart save by Joe Murphy from Robson-Kanu to prevent Reading going ahead with ten minutes to go, but while the Huddersfield goalkeeper got a hand to Robson-Kanu’s 87th-minute shot from substitute Lucas Piazon’s pass, he couldn’t keep the effort out.

Just when it looked as though Town were going out, a foul on Bunn brought a penalty from which Wells levelled.

In Sky Bet League One, Rai Simons was an unused substitute as Chesterfield won their second game in a row with a 3-2 win away at Rochdale.

Jay O’Shea’s placed shot put the visitors ahead on 26 minutes, but Ian Henderson levelled with a diving header shortly before the hour mark.

Lee Novak restored the visiting side’s lead from Dan Gardner’s pass, and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake then fired in the third with ten minutes remaining.

Rhys Bennett scored in the last minute to set up a frantic finish, after Gboly Ariyibi was sent off for a second act of simulation, but the hosts were unable to find an equaliser.

In League Two, Reggie Lambe came on as a half-time substitute as Mansfield Town won their first league game since November with a 2-1 win over Stevenage.

Mansfield took the lead Chris Clements curled in a free kick shortly before half-time, and James Baxendale doubled the lead on his debut, after signing on loan from Walsall, by firing in from 20 yards.

Armand Gnanduillet netted a consolation for Stevenage with the last kick of the game, tapping in from eight yards for his sixth goal of the season.