Kings Langley are now without a win in five Southern League Premier Division games after Banbury United came out on top 4-3 from a rollercoaster game that featured six goals during an incredible 14 second-half minutes at Gaywood Park.

The defeat leaves Paul Hobbs’ men 21st in the table, although they will hope to pick up a first home league win of the season tomorrow night against a Gosport Borough side still without a point eight matches into the campaign.

The hosts had started the better on Saturday, with a Jack Waldren cross headed straight at the keeper by Kieran Turner and Gareth Price’s byline run and delivery found no takers but was hooked off the line.

But Kings did make the breakthrough when a Ross Hampton clearance was collected by Price via a defender’s poor header and he threaded it instinctively through to Mitchell Weiss who, although forced wide, sent a low shot past Jack Harding and into the far corner.

There was little to suggest the goal glut to come as the first half closed with Hampton out to block a Conor McDonagh shot and a Tom Winters curling cross bouncing along the top of the bar.

But the visitors came back out on the attack after the restart with a couple of shots well over the bar, before the game exploded into life.

Superb footwork by the ever-dangerous McDonagh gave him the space to deliver a low shot past Hampton in the 55th minute and three minutes later United were ahead with a powerful Luke Carnell header from a corner.

However, Kings hit back almost immediately when a Waldren corner was headed against the bar by Price and an equally forceful header from Jorell Johnson found the back of the net.

Cue another two minute interlude and Jefferson Louis forced in a McDonagh cross from close range and Jack Self then repeated the same scenario.

Still Kings battled back again, with Dean Hitchcock’s faultless penalty giving Harding no chance after the ever-willing Price had been brought down in the area and in 14 minutes the score had gone from 1-0 to 3-4.

The home team’s belief that they could still get something out of this remained to the end, but it was not to be and ultimately the now customary second-half wobble at home was to condemn them to a fourth successive league defeat.

Kings Langley: Hampton; Cox, Connolly, Johnson, Tring (Ward 68); Turner, Hitchock, Adebiyi, Waldren (Bircham 79); Weiss, Price (Ocran 85). Subs not used: Keating and Coldicott-Stevens.