Forest Green Rovers were pegged back twice but still emerged victorious over Wrexham in their pre-season friendly at The Racecourse Ground.

Joseph Mills opened the scoring with 41 minutes on the clock before Mike Fondop pulled one back shortly after the break.

FGR then pulled into the lead again after 67 minutes thanks to Theo Archibald, although the hosts were able to equalise again thanks to Luke Summerrfield's penalty before George Williams was on hand to score the winner inside the final 10 minutes.

It was an even start to the encounter and both had half chances in the opening quarter of an hour, but it was Christian Doidge who created the best of those as he drove in from the left but couldn’t prevent the ball from running away from him, allowing former FGR man James Jennings to clear.

With 10 minutes on the clock, Wrexham forced a corner and although Chris Holroyd went for the spectacular overhead kick, he couldn’t make the desired contact and the ball carried through for an FGR throw on the far side.

Rovers were clearly becoming the more dominant side as the game approached its 20th minute and Doidge had another chance with 18 minutes on the clock but couldn’t beat Jennings to Mills’ dinked, back-post cross.

With the half-hour mark around the corner, Forest Green remained the dominant side and Carl Winchester almost brought that advantage to fruition but couldn’t quite keep his effort down as he directed Reuben Reid’s cross just wide of the far top corner.

Four minutes before the break the deadlock was finally broken as Mills once again received the ball on the left and he did exceptionally well to fire the ball across the keeper and into the far corner from outside the area.

The hosts then seemed sparked into life and tried to hit back almost immediately but Holroyd was unlucky to see his bouncing effort cleared off the line by Haydn Hollis after a sliding challenge with Robert Sanchez in the Rovers goal.

The half-time break saw the introduction of five new faces for FGR as they looked to add to their tally for the game. However, it was the hosts that struck next as they found an equaliser after 55 minutes.

Substitute James Montgomery initially did well to deny Kevin Roberts from range but as the ball came back into the area from the resulting corner, the ball was nodded onto the bar before dropping to Fondop who slid the ball home.

Shortly after the hour mark Doidge looked to regain FGR’s lead but couldn’t quite reach far enough to get his head on Scott Laird’s whipped cross.

FGR continued to press forward and did find the net again. With 67 minutes on the clock, Dayle Grubb did well to find Gavin Gunning on the edge of the area and the centre-back played an excellent defence-splitting pass to find Laird who cut the ball back for Archibald to sweep home through a crowd of bodies into the corner.

The hosts looked to find a way back into the encounter and for the most part Rovers shut them out well. With 80 minutes on the clock however, the referee awarded the Welsh side a penalty after Shaun Pearson was adjudged to have been pulled back following Summerfield’s free-kick.

Summerfield was then on hand to slot the penalty home to level up the scores.

With just five minutes remaining, FGR had a chance to pull into the lead again as Grubb stood over a free-kick just outside the Wrexham penalty area and although he was unlucky to see his effort bounce off the post, George Williams was on hand to fire home the rebound and secure the fourth win of a busy pre-season campaign.