Drogheda United boosted their hopes of avoiding the Premier Division relegation trap-door when a dramatic winner from midfielder James Chambers in the second minute of added time gave them a deserved victory over basement club Bray Wanderers at the Carlisle Grounds.

Now Alan Mathews' team leap over Sligo Rovers into eighth place in the table with their first win in five games to keep very much alive their hopes of top flight survival.
Drogheda might have broken the deadlock on the half hour after a shot corner by Brendan McGill on the left allowed Jamie Duffy to get in a high cross to the far post. The resulting header by Brian King was brilliantly pushed over by O'Connor.

King blazed over when well placed early in the second half before a free by Chambers took a nasty deflection off a wall of Bray defenders and narrowly wide of the upright.

Drogheda took a deserved lead on 75 minutes when Duffy show low and hard on the turn from close range after the always industrious McGill had created the opening on the right.

But Bray were desperatley unlucky not to grab an equaliser on 82 minutes when a Doyle effort from the ege of the box struck the upright with Williams beaten. From the rebound, substitute Shane O'Neill shot just wide.

Then came an equaliser for Bray with Massey firing home an angled shot in the 89th minute into the corner of the net after midfielder Dave Mulcahy had set up the opening.

But Drogheda refused to lie down and had what may prove to be a precious winner in the second minute of added time. Gaynor stole the ball from the Bray defence 35 yards from goal and delivered a neat pass to Duffy who played the ball across the face of goal for Chambers to tap home from close range.

Bray Wanderers: O'Connor; Pender, Mulcahy, Brennan, Cronin (O'Neill 34); Shields, Doyle, Brennan, Massey; Kelly (Mulroy 66), Flood (Webster 74).

Drogheda United: Williams; Gibb, Kenna, McNally, Clarke; B.McGill, Chambers, King, Crowley (E.McGill 84), Chambers; Duffy, Gaynor.

Referee: Anthony Buttimer (Cork).