Forest Green 2 Burton Albion 3: Forest Green Rovers handed three avoidable goals to Blue Square Premier leaders Burton Albion, despite playing with passion and panache.

Rovers' early dominance was rewarded in the seventh minute when Josh Low dispossessed left-back Aaron Webster and squared unselfishly for Andy Mangan to tap home his ninth goal of the season.

Unfortunately, they could not legislate for a rare error by Darren Jones, whose nod back to goalkeeper Terry Burton dropped short and allowed Shaun Harrad to nip in and level.

More shoddy defending five minutes later enabled Harrad to rise above Darran Kempson and power a header past a helpless Burton from Jon Newby's cross.

A third visiting goal before the break looked on the cards, and it almost arrived when Harrad's cross was not cleared and Michael Simpson fired a shot against the crossbar from 15 yards.

The second half began like the first, with Jim Harvey's men on top. A clever ball by Platt picked out Low inside the box, but the angle was against the winger and 45-year-old keeper Kevin Poole was able to block his near-post shot.

Pearson then raced onto a long clearance and tumbled to the turf under the challenge of Jones and a penalty was given.

The pacy frontman stroked the ball down the middle to seemingly put the result beyond doubt with 32 minutes remaining.

Rovers had other ideas, though, and in the 70th minute a sumptuous cross from Jerry Gill was headed beyond Poole via the underside of the crossbar by Jonathan Smith.