Anthony Acheampong scored at both ends as 10-man Ebbsfleet battled back to earn a 1-1 draw at Truro City on Saturday and preserve their unbeaten away record.

National League South leaders Fleet had to come from behind in atrocious conditions at Treyew Road to salvage a point as they failed to win on the road for just the fourth time this season.

Big defender Acheampong had his head in his hands seconds before half-time when his tame backpass to Brandon Hall saw the keeper hack at fresh air and the ball trickle into the net to give the hosts an interval lead they hardly deserved.

However just before the hour, and with Matt Fish having seen red for a needless lunge moments earlier, Acheampong led the celebrations after he outmuscled his marker to ram home from close range after a deflected Anthony Cook free-kick from the right had caused havoc in the box.

Both teams hit the woodwork as they sought to claim the three points but seemed happy to settle for a share of the spoils as City made it one defeat in 20 - at Maidstone in December - and remain unbeaten at home since August, a month in which they lost four of their five defeats this season.

The game began on a heavy pitch and with 50mph gusts. City livewire Danny Green tested Hall inside five minutes while Aaron McLean outpaced Arran Pugh at the other end only to slip as the ball held up in the mud.

Matt Godden scooped over after Fish's cross from the right as the wind played havoc in White Tigers keeer Martin Rice's goalmouth while Rice watched a wind-assisted drive from Parkes sail into the good Fleet following massed behind his goal on 17 minutes.

Pugh was booked on 27 minutes for a sliding challenge on McLean near halfway while Acheampong's clever header from the subsequent free-kick was well saved by Rice, though the linesman's flag was up.

McLean was getting under the hosts' skin and after escaping censure from ref Savvas Yianni for a flailing arm, he was forcefully felled by Ollie Knowles seconds later and the Truro man ended up in the book.

McLean bobbled a cross from the right wide of the post and flicked on for Godden who strode forward and dragged his shot across the face of Rice's goal.

Godden spurned another chance after the wind helped play him clean through, with Rice's lunging tackle sending him wide left before looping a shot onto the roof of the net on the turn.

Anthony Cook saw a free-kick blocked while Green flashed a cross across the face of Brandon Hall's goal on a rare foray forward by the hosts.

The deadlock was broken in perhaps appropriate fashion given the conditions as a hotly-disputed throw awarded to Truro landed at the feet of Acheampong who rolled a backpass to Hall's feet, only for the keeper to swing at fresh air and the ball to trickle agonisingly over the line seconds before the break.

Fleet began the second half well and Godden latched onto a fine pass from Cook four minutes after the break but despite again rounding Rice to the keeper's left, his shot came out off the inside of the near post.

Moments later Fleet's task grew harder as Fish received a straight red after lunging in on Matty Jay who was facing away from goal and right by the touchline.

Knowles rattled the post as the hosts, playing with the wind and occasional stinging rain behind them, smelled blood on 56 minutes but it was Acheampong who found the net three minutes later to send the three-figure Fleet contingent in the crowd of 786 wild.

Hall stood firm when a Knowles corner soon afterwards hung in the air above his bar, with a dozen players battling in the six-yard box before Hall clawed off the line and Fleet somehow cleared.

The conditions worsened as the half continued and chances and good football were at a premium, though City sub Ben Adelsbury saw a low drive from the edge of the box deflected past Hall's post while Cook's free-kick at the other end was blocked behind before the close.

Truro: Rice, White, Brett (Afful 82mins) Bentley, Richards, Pugh, Knowles (Adelsbury 73mins), Green, Duff (Vassell 50mins), Jay, Cooke. Subs not used: Wright, Dawson.

Ebbsfleet: Hall, Fish, Van den Bogaert, Lewis, Acheampong, Bonner, Rance, Godden, Parkes (Howe 56mins), McLean, Cook. Subs not used: Miles, Kissock, Sheringham, Pooley.

Attendance: 786.