Two minutes into injury time, Myles Weston's cross was partially cleared but Joe Pigott brought the ball under control inside the Wycombe box, and struck a shot from 15 yards (14 m) into the bottom corner of Alex Lynch's goal to send the game into a penalty shootout.

Ben Coker and Matt Bloomfield missed their spot kicks to send the shootout into sudden death where Sam Wood's shot was saved to give the victory to Southend 7–6.

The first half ended goalless and saw Southend's Michael Timlin receive 15 stitches in a head wound after a clash with Bira Dembélé, and both were substituted.

Six minutes into the second half, the home side took lead after a 25-yard (23 m) curling strike from Dean Parrett beat Dan Bentley in the Southend goal.

Nine minutes later, Barry Corr equalised with a header which took a deflection off the Stevenage defender Andy Bond before crossing the goal-line, and the match ended 1–1.

Ryan Brunt scored for Plymouth midway through the second half but the game ended 2–1 to Wycombe, and the 5–3 aggregate victory saw them qualify for the final.

[13] In the two games between the sides during the regular season, Wycombe won the match at Adams Park 4–1 in December 2014 while the return fixture the following March ended in a 2–2 draw.

After a series of corners for Southend with a chance in the 17th minute falling to Cian Bolger whose header ahead of Mawson's tackle went wide of the Wycombe goal.

[16] Four minutes later, Bolger's shot went off-target and soon after Hayes was the first player of the match to be shown the yellow card after he fouled McLaughlin.

On 24 minutes, Corr's header found the back of the Wycombe net but was disallowed after a Bolger foul on Nico Yennaris.

On 50 minutes, Will Atkinson's volley for Southend from inside the area was off-target before Ephraim was fouled by Corr: the resulting free kick was struck over the bar by Wycombe's Joe Jacobson.

Adam Barrett then headed two separate chances off-target for Wycombe and in the 76th minute, Hayes' shot was saved by Bentley before an attempt from Wood was defended by Southend.

Jacobsen took the set piece and his strike passed over the wall, off the underside of the Southend crossbar and into the goal to make it 1–0 to Wycombe.

Two minutes into injury time, Weston's cross was partially cleared but Pigott brought the ball under control inside the Wycombe box, and struck a shot from 15 yards (14 m) into the bottom corner of Lynch's goal to send the game into a penalty shootout.

Barrett, Jacobsen, Weston, Holloway and Bolger were all successful but Wood's strike was pushed onto the post by Bentley for a 7–6 Southend victory.