The Spireites travelled up to the North East for a reserve friendly against Sunderland at their Academy of Light training facility and in a close fought encounter the Black Cats came from behind to win 2-1.

Jamie Lowry (pictured), in his second appearance since injury, opened the scoring with an early goal for Chesterfield.  He rifled the ball home after being set up by Jamie Jackson following a well won corner.  A diagonal ball from Janos Kovacs caught out the Sunderland defence and a trick from Adam Smith produced the fruitful corner.

Sunderland equalised on the half-hour through Jamie Chandler and then got a late winner in this high tempo game through David Dowson.

Michael Jordan showed up well in the Spireites goal in what was a good overall team performance.  Steve Fletcher had a useful 45 minutes up front, sharing the berth at half-time with Wayne Allison.

Sunderland included Black Cats captain Dean Whitehad in their side as he continued his rehabilitation from injury hoping to prove his fitness for the trip to Everton at the weekend.

Reserve team coach Wayne Allison said: "The lads didn't let themselves down against quality opposition and it was a good game played at a good tempo with both sides getting something out of it."

Chesterfield line-up 4.4.3:  Michael Jordan, Josh Law (sub Michael Bearder 70), Kevin Gray, Janos Kovacs, Alan O'Hare, Gareth Davies, Dan Gray, Jamie Lowry (sub Josh Lowe 75, Jamie Jackson (sub Ben Algar 75), Steve Fletcher (sub Wayne Allison 46), Adam Smith.

Interview with reserve team coach Wayne Allison coming up soon on Spireites World Radio