Substitute Matthew Blinkhorn headed a dramatic injury-time winner to keep York City on track in the play-offs as they came from behind to defeat relegation-threatened Stockport County 2-1 at Bootham Crescent.

Matthew Blinkhorn But the hosts suffered a mighty scare after on loan Danny Rowe gave their opponents the lead early in the second-half when drilling low past Michael Ingham from a long goal-kick headed on by Tom Elliott.

Earlier Ashley Chambers had curled a shot narrowly wide during a rather tame opening in which genuine moments of interest were fleeting.

Indeed it wasn't until the introduction of both Blinkhorn [right] and Jamie Reed from the bench on 66 minutes that promotion hopefuls York really started to threaten.

First Blinkhorn headed a Chambers corner against the near post before also having another powerful header blocked on the line from the same source.

Debutant Ben Gibson then nodded Patrick McLaughlin's free-kick against the crossbar as Stockport, who lost both skipper and centre-back Danny O'Donnell and his deputy Joe Connor through injury during the game, struggled to deal at the back.

The Minstermen were finally rewarded with six minutes remaining when Reed turned onto a long Jon Challinor throw and fired in at close-range.

Then in the final of five added minutes McLaughlin delivered a corner from the right helped on by Gibson and hooked back across by Reed for Blinkhorn to dramatically head into the top corner by the near post.