Scunthorpe United Reserves 4 Gateshead Reserves 2

Gateshead succumbed to two late goals as Championship outfit Scunthorpe United came from two down to pinch a 4-2 totesport.com League Cup victory.

A Brian Wake double had put Gateshead in the ascendancy but the concession of a needless penalty handed the Iron a route back into the game.

Gateshead, still leading, then replaced experienced first team pair Martin Brittain and Carl Jones just past the hour, with teenagers Dan Curry and Michael Dodds.

Scunthorpe levelled and then scored two goals in the last five minutes, the second from another individual error, to clinch victory.

"It was another very frustrating game," said reserves manager Paul Bryson "we were in command at 2-0 and if we'd kept Brittain and Jones on we would have won the tie.

"We had to take them off because they will both be in the squad for Saturday's Conference game at kettering but it cost us the game.

"There were plenty of plusses and Steven Baptist and Josh Gillies, both just 20, were excellent as was Wake who had to play the final 20 minutes at centre half."

Wake, yet to start for the first team this season, has scored 13 goals for the reserves and he fired his side ahead on the quarter hour.

A great ball over the top from David Brown saw Wake make ground before slotting the ball past United keeper Sam Slocombe.

Former Scunthorpe trialist Brittain almost doubled the lead with a curling free kick that Slocombe clawed clear at the expense of a corner.

Gillies then shaved the post from 20 yards before Chris Porter was called into action when he came out on top in a one-on-one.

Baptist then played a one-two with Jonny Allan, who got through the 90 minutes, before striking the outside of the post on the stroke of half-time.

Gateshead were two up three minutes after the break when Baptist fed the in form Wake who beat Slocombe for the second time.

Matt Godden headed a Garry Thompson cross against the bar as the Iron hit back while Wake, sensing a fourth hat-trick of the season, was denied by Ashley Palmer's block.

Dan Lay had replaced fellow teenager Matty Scott for the second half and he gave away a penalty soon after Godden had crashed a shot against the bar.

Lay felled Thompson on the right side of the penalty area when the Iron man was going nowhere and the experienced Thompson sent Porter the wrong way from the spot on 70 minutes.

Scunthorpe were level six minutes later when Matt Fell's looping header from Adam Boyes' right side cross found the net.

Wake was now back in defence with Gillies helping out Allen up front, but it was the Iron who went on to win the game.

Nathan Fisher's cross was easily taken by Slocombe who quickly turned defence into attack with a clearance, Godden then volleying home Kieran McCaffrey's chip.

The lively Baptist almost levelled with a shot that hit the angle of post and bar only for Scunthorpe to add a fourth in the last minute.

Porter, in attempting to keep the ball in play, struck his clearance straight to former Morecambe man Thompson who shot into an empty net from distance.

Gateshead Res: Porter, Gillies, Brown, Jones (Dodds 62), Scott (Lay 46), Brittain (Curry 62), Baptist, Ferrell, Fisher, Allan, Wake