Torquay United will go to Chippenham Town today desperate to right the wrongs of recent games and win three points to put towards their promotion bid.

It felt like a loss on Saturday when Torquay - no way near for the first time this National League South season - gave up a good lead to drop points at the end of a game they could and should have won.

Goals from Jordan Young and Matt Jay led the charge in the first half against Boreham Wood, but an 82nd minute goal left everyone thinking: ‘It couldn’t happen again, could it?’ And it did. Boreham’s 98th minute equaliser was more than frustrating, more than disappointing, it was agonosing.

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So, going to 11th-placed Chippenham in seventh, the last play-off place as the teams above them stretch out, it is vitally important to win all three points this - and not give the fans another nervy second half, and a heartbreaking end.

This is quite a young squad - but it’s not as if there weren’t players on the pitch who haven’t seen it and done it on Saturday. “We had experienced players on the pitch,” said manager Paul Wotton. “We had Cooke, Threlkeld, Jay - we had experienced boys out there. Hayfield, these boys have been about a little bit now. We have got to learn, there is no other option. We are chucking away too many points.”

Cody Cooke and Oscar Threlkeld came on as second half substitutes, while Dan Hayfield and Matt Jay played the whole game. Jay was excellent - the deserved Man of the Match - but by injury-time he looked like his race was run. What was disappointing was when Cooke and Omar Mussa came on, they looked tired already.

This is a tough division, with a lot of games in a short space of time being played right now. Chippenham away was postponed earlier in the season so was added to the calendar between Boreham at home and Tonbridge Angels away next Saturday - making this sequence of games worse. The squad is small and being tested, with Young playing while not being fully match fit - yet scoring nine goals so far - and the defence changing week-to-week because of injuries and illness. Sam Dreyer looked poorly again when he came off for Ed Palmer on Saturday.

Defender Jay Foulston remains an absentee but is back in training after his injury; midfielder Dylan Morgan won’t be back from his hamstring strain until next month. By then, the play-off picture should be a lot clearer. After this game, Torquay will have 10 left - and they will need to win most of them if they are going to challenge for the title. Otherwise, second or third is the next best option.

Fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh will not only give them an extra game to play, but also deny them home advantage. Outside of the top eight? That would be a disaster.