Rochdale made it through to the second round of the FA Cup with victory over Fleetwood Town after extra time.
Luke Hannant put Dale ahead early on, but Fleetwood equalised from the penalty spot in the final 15 minutes.
With the tie needing to be decided on the day, it progressed to extra time, and an 111th minute goal from Baba Adeeko ultimately sealed Dale’s place in Monday night’s second round draw.
Ian Watson made three changes from the team that started the previous league match at Port Vale; Tobi Adebayo-Rowling returned from injury and Jamie Paterson made his second start for the club. Luke Hannant also returned, as Cian Hayes and Baba Adeeko dropped to the bench, with Sam Sherring and Sam Beckwith missing through injury. However, there was better news on the injury front, with Ryan East and Casey Pettit returning to the matchday squad.
An even opening saw Dale's Zain Silcott-Duberry have a shot blocked, whilst Fleetwood's Ronan Coughlan headed straight at Dale goalkeeper Sam Waller and sent another shot over the bar.
The opening goal came midway through the first half, with Hannant scoring his second goal of the season. Charlie Tasker received the ball from Glenn Middleton and sent a low cross into the area, where Hannant got across the Fleetwood defence to the front post and cushioned a side-footed shot in.
Fleetwood had more of the ball after Dale’s goal, but without threatening goalkeeper Sam Waller too much.
Aaron Loupalo-Bi had a couple of shots well blocked by the Dale defence and Coughlan and Lewis McCann both hit shots off target.
The final chance of the half came Dale’s way when Dajaune Brown headed on target from Harvey Gilmour’s delightful clip over the defence, but Fleetwood goalkeeper Jay Lynch saved.
After the half-time break, Dale felt they had a case for a penalty when Brown was pulled to the ground as he attempted to get on the end of a Tasker cross, but the referee waved away the appeals.
There was a long stoppage in play when one of the assistant referees was forced off through injury after a heavy collision.
Fleetwood pressured Dale and won a penalty when Kaiden Wilson was adjudged to have brought down Loupalo-Bi in the area. Coughlan stepped up and scored the penalty.
As the clock ticked towards 90 minutes, Fleetwood substitute Shaun Rooney shot over the bar from inside the area, and Loupalo-Bi headed wide from close range.
Dale had a goal ruled out with two minutes remaining; Brown received a through ball from half-time substitute Bryant Bilongo and scored, but he was in an offside position.
Dale looked the more likely to score a second goal in the ten minutes of added time.
Bilongo had a shot at goal after a Middleton corner had dropped to him via Aden Flint’s header.
Coughlan glanced a header wide for Fleetwood with the last chance of the 90 minutes, meaning an extra 30 minutes was needed to try and find a winner.
In the first half of extra time, Bilongo had a shot from Tasker’s delivery.
Waller made a strong one-on-one save to deny Will Davies at the other end.
After the break, Waller punched away Danny Andrew’s powerful free kick which was heading for the top corner.
Cian Hayes had a shot blocked but kept the move alive and clipped a ball back into the middle. Brown had his shot blocked but it fell to Adeeko who scored from the edge of the area.
Hayes came within inches of adding another goal for Dale moments later, after a neat interchange with Ryan East he clipped a shot onto the roof of the net when one-on-one with Lynch.
Ebanks-Landell made his return from injury late on, and despite late pressure from Fleetwood, Dale held on to progress to the second round.
Fleetwood Town: Lynch, Neal ©, Potter, Bennett, Cannon (68’ Helm), McCann (68’ Rooney), Haughey, Coughlan (109’ Thomas), Loupalo-Bi (90+7’ Davies), Batty (68’ Andrew), McLean.
Unused subs: Pradic, Murphy, Robertson, Cirino.
Scorers: 75’ Coughlan (penalty).
Rochdale: Waller, Tasker, Wilson, Gilmour © (84’ Adeeko), Silcott-Duberry (90+7’ East), Adebayo-Rowling (46’ Bilongo), Hannant (84’ Hayes), Paterson (46’ Francis), Brown, Flint, Middleton (117’ Ebanks-Landell).
Unused subs: Spaven, Pettit, Henderson.
Scorers: 23’ Hannant, 111’ Adeeko.
Attendance: 2,026 (673 away).
