RADCLIFFE Borough suffered late heartbreak, conceding three goals in the dying moments of their opening home game of the season to lose 4-3 against Mossley.

Elliot Rokka starred for the Taurus Park outfit scoring twice as Boro went 3-1 up inside the hour mark.

But Abou Sonogo's sending off just before the break came back to haunt them, as Mossley eventually made the extra man count.

The crushing defeat followed a 2-0 loss at Brighouse Town on the opening day, when a Reece Lyndon own goal inside two minutes put them on the back foot.

Luke Parkin doubled the home side's advantage from the penalty spot on 71 minutes after a foul in the box.

The disappointment for Boro was compounded by a serious leg injury to right-back Emmanuel Dube-Palmer just after the break.

Play had to be held up for 13 minutes before the defender was taken for hospital treatment on a broken ankle.

Despite a difficult opening day, Boro came out of the traps firing on all cylinders against Mossley.

The lively Raul Corriea gave them the lead in the second minute, his deflected shot from the edge of the box whistling past the visiting keeper.

Rokka opened his account for the season on 34 minutes, showing quick feet inside the box to get a shot off that nestled in the bottom corner.

It was fully deserved goal, with Corriea, Jack Hindle and Callum Scullion all getting involved in some neat work in the build-up.

Things took a turn for the worse on 45 minutes, however, when Sonogo was shown a straight red card following a scuffle in the Boro box.

Kyle McGonigle stepped up to convert the resulting spot kick.

Despite the setback, it was Boro who came out in the second half on the front foot.

Rokka restored their two-goal advantage on 58 minutes with a great individual goal, dribbling into the box from the left wing before rounding the keeper and adding his second of the game.

Mike Fish fired a warning shot against the post for Mossley, but it looked like 10-man Boro would see out the game for a deserved win before Andy Keogh pulled a goal back for the visitors with a shot from close range with three minutes of normal time to play.

They then levelled through Fish two minutes into stoppage time and while Rokka and Correia both had chances to win it for Boro, Keogh completed Mossley's comeback, dinking the loose ball over keeper Matthew Johnson after it broke to him in the box.