A stoppage-time winner from Josh Barrett fired Aldershot Town to an entertaining 3-2 win against Hartlepool United in the National League.

The visitors took a 1-0 lead into the break but goals from Maxwell Mullins and Cameron Hargreaves turned the game around.

Mani Dieseruvwe levelled with just ten minutes remaining, but Barrett was on hand to score a dramatic winner in front a jubilant East Bank.

The game burst into life after just a matter of seconds as Jack Barham raced forward to win the ball from Hartlepool's kick-off but was denied by Pools keeper Adam Smith as he raced in on goal with only nine seconds of the game having been played.

Hartlepool took the lead in the 21st minute when Tyler Frost inadvertently found the back of his own net after trying to intercept a ball played across the edge of the Aldershot box.

Barham had another good opportunity fashioned from hard graft in the 25th minute as he pounced on a soft header back to Smith, but his lob was well closed down by the Hartlepool keeper as Ryan Jones' effort on the rebound failed to hit the target.

There were half-chances for both sides before the break and it was the Shots who looked more likely to find the back of the net as half-time drew nearer.

Jones fired in a couple of dangerous crosses after patient spells of possession for Aldershot but the visitors held on to their lead.

Hartlepool should have scored a second and increased their lead just six minutes into the second half but Shots keeper Marcus Dewhurst pulled off an excellent save to deny Reyes Cleary from point-blank range after he had been found unmarked at the far post.

And they were punished on the hour mark as Mullins bundled in an equaliser for the Shots. Smith could only parry a shot into the danger area and Mullins, who had just been introduced from the bench, was on hand to turn it in.

Seven minutes later, Aldershot took the lead. Olly Scott's dangerous cross from the left was well dealt with by the Pools defence, but from the resulting corner Hargreaves received the ball, cut in on his left foot and fired in a superb effort into the bottom corner.

In the 79th minute Hargreaves did superbly to win the ball back in midfield and race forward 30 yards before playing the ball to Barham to his right. Barham saw his shot saved and the rebound fell back to Hargreaves but his shot was blocked.

A minute later the visitors broke on the counter and Sam Folarin raced down the Hartlepool right wing to play a ball into the centre that Dieseruvwe finished well to level the game.

Aldershot came close to a late winner as Christian Maghoma connected well with a corner but his header was well saved by Smith, but there was to be a late winner in the 95th minute from Barrett.

The Shots were the side looking more likely to find the winner in what was a nervy and open end to the game and Frost's dink into the box found Barham at the back post whose cushioned header back across goal was turned into an open net by Barrett to secure three points for his side.