Bromley ship a late equaliser but still very much homing in on brand new horizons

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League Two

Bromley (1) 2 Whitely 31, Thompson 70

Crewe Alexandra (0) 2 Pond 54, Demetriou 90+4

Bromley are living the dream. And they are determined not to wake up from it.

OK, so they did not quite get the win they wanted to extend their lead at the top of the division to eight points, but if they can still come close to winning on an off day where they had only 31 per cent of the ball, things are looking good.

The weekend brought another huge moment in the club's heady season as they battled back from a goal down to beat much-fancied fellow promotion favourites Swindon Town.

Maybe the drama, emotion and effort of that told a little in Tuesday night's clash with Crewe at Hayes Lane - boss Andy Woodman agreed it may have been a factor - but with the current unbeaten run extended to 10 matches, eight of them victories, the Ravens aren't doing too much wrong.

Not since late November at Walsall have they tasted defeat, and along with Sunderland, they are now the only unbeaten home side in the top four divisions.

At every step of the way, the wonderfully bullish Woodman has not shied away from his ambition for the Ravens to reach for the stars. This is only their second term in the EFL and their no-nonsense team is grasping the nettle.

Mid-table Crewe were the ones who played most of the football. Playing to feet and looking anything but a team with three successive away defeats to their name.

But Bromley usually know how to get the job done, and having been second best, stole in front on the half hour when Corey Whitely picked the pocket of Alexandra midfielder Max Sanders and charged forward before crashing a shot through keeper Ian Lawlor.

Any thoughts home fans had of another breeze to three points were hit soon after the interval when Alfie Pond glanced in a header from Reece Hutchinson cross for a deserved equaliser and Woodman could sense a little drop off in standards and energy - enough for him to make four changes by the 65th minutes.

And it was two of the subs who combined in a lightning breakaway to put Bromley ahead for a second time - Ben Thompson angling a low shot into the far corner after being found by Will Hondermarck's well weighted pass.

Would it be enough? The answer was: Not quite. Not this time. Crewe refused to accept their fate and they got their reward deep into injury time when Mickey Demetriou powered in a far post header from a Lewis Billington cross. It was a fair outcome.

The bigger picture is surely no major harm done, though. The Ravens look like a team too grounded to get above their station and with the vision of a brand new world urging them on. The final months of the season promise to be quite a ride.

Ravens: (4-2-3-1) Smith - Samuel, Sowunmi (Jenkinson 82), Cameron, Odutayo - Arthurs (Hondermarck 56), Charles - Whitely (Ilunga 55), Krauhaus (Thompson 64), Pinnock - Cheek (Kabamba 65)

Railwaymen: (4-2-3-1) Lawlor - Billington, Pond, Connolly, Hutchinson - Sanders, Powell - O'Reilly (Lunt 97), Holicek (Demetriou 87), Agius (Thibaut 81) - March

Attendance: 3,618