The afternoon opened up on a positive note when Ethan Wheatley was teed up by James Scanlon for the first goal of the game.
Picking the ball up on the halfway line, the pair exchanged a quick one-two before Wheatley sprinted away from the Sparta defence. Opposition goalkeeper Jesse Joeri Heerkens rushed out to meet our forward once he'd entered the box, allowing the striker to neatly chip the ball over his head and into the back of the net.
That scoreline held for the next half-hour, until Sparta's Hynek Hruska levelled the game in the 38th minute with a close-range finish inside a packed six-yard box, assisted by team-mate Radek Siler.