Wanderers 2, Southampton 2 after extra time (90 mins: 1-1) Wanderers win 6-5 on penalties

ROD Wallace, the former Southampton striker, kept his nerve to put Wanderers into the last eight of the Worthington Cup at the end of a dramatic penalty shoot-out at the Reebok.

The Boltoin substitute scored the sixth penalty after Jussi Jaaskelainen had saved Chris Marsden's attempt with the shoot-out at the sudden death stage.

Colin Hendry, Gareth Farrelly, Michael Ricketts, Nicky Southall and Paul Warhurst had all converted theirs, following the Saints' lead from Marain Pahars, James Beattie, Jason Dodd, Paul Telfer, and goalkeeper Paul Jones.

Twice Wanderers thought they had the tie won. They led through a Dean Holdsworth penalty in the 54th minute, awarded for a Paul Williams foul on Akinori Nishizawa, only to concede an equaliser to Kevin Davies with just 10 minutes of normal time to play.

Then, after the Saints looked the likeliest winners, Michael Ricketts - off the bench for the second half of extra-time - thought he'd settled it with his 11th goal of the season, with 110 minutes on the clock. But Tahar El Khalej punished some slack marking two minutes later and a duel that had been

high on incident but low on quality, headed for the drama of a penalty shoot-out.

Wanderers: Jaaskelainen, Southall, Diawara, Hendry, Barness, Johnson, Warhurst, Farrelly, Hansen, Holdsworth, Nishizawa. Subs: N'Gotty for Johnson

74 mins, Wallace for Nishizawa 74 mins, Ricketts for Holdsworth 105 mins. Not used: Viander, Ricketts, Norris.

Southampton: Jones, Dodd, El-Khalej, Williams, Bridge, Telfer, Oakley, Svensson, Marsden, Beattie, Pahars. Subs: Davies for Svensson 66 mins. Not

used: Moss, Benali, Delap, Tessem.

Referee: Andy D'Urso (Billericay).

Attendance: 8,404.