Accrington Stanley have not been renowned for com-ebacks in recent history, but produced a high quality response after going behind to Burton to take all three points.

The last time the Reds turned a deficit into a victory was back in October when they thrashed Gillingham 7-4, so a late show was long overdue.

After trailing to Justin Richards’ strike, Dean Winn-ard and Wes Fletcher turned things in Stanley’s favour in the last 20 minutes.

Keen to bounce back from the previous weekend’s defeat at Port Vale, manager John Coleman made three changes to his side with Danny Coid and new signing Padraig Amond handed debuts and Ian Craney restored to the starting line up.

And the new look Reds started brightly, despite Sean Murdoch needing to make a save from Jacques Maghoma in the second minute.

Fletcher was operating in an attacking midfield role, but forced Burton keeper Ross Atkins into a save in the 14th minute.

The first half was tight, with the sides exchanging chances before Richards made the breakthrough.

The Reds were actually on the attack when Luke Joyce’s shot was charged down to Adam Bolder and the midfielder sent a pass into home territory. Richards got between two defenders and then slotted the ball beyond Murdoch to open the scoring.

Coleman’s men couldn’t muster a response before the break despite Atkins denying Fletcher and saving Kevin McIntyre’s free kick.

Coleman might have been forgiven for thinking it wouldn’t be his team’s day when Coid’s fierce 58th minute drive cannoned back off the inside of the post, but the Reds were not to be denied for long.

Winnard had scored his only Football League goal against Burton on the last day of last season and repeated the trick, ghosting in at the near post to guide Sean Hessey’s free kick into the net on 72 minutes.

Now the Reds were level and showed no intention of giving anything more away as the pushed for the winner.

And nine minutes from time Winnard sent a long pass down the right for Fletcher, who held off a defender before drilling the ball beyond Atkins from a very tight angle. It was the 20-year-old’s second goal in three games for Stanley.

With four minutes of injury time added, Bolder shot over and substitute Jimmy Phillips fired wide as the Brewers looked to level things up again before Stanley survived a late penalty appeal.

They may have done it the hard way, but the Reds had secured back-to-back home wins to give their start to the season a much more healthy points return.