Scunthorpe United 2 Southport 0 in front of 4272 fans

It was always going to be tough against the league leaders but gifting them two goals through two uncharacteristic defensive errors in the first half was all it took to give the home side the three points.

Ironically Southport played some decent football in the first period and Tom Moore and Danny Philliskirk both went close but once that second goal went in the writing was on the wall.

The goals for Scunthorpe came in the 11th and 38th minutes.

The second half was a non event as far as we were concerned, Scunthorpe were in control and if it hadn’t been for the briliance of Chris Renshaw in the Southport goal the scoreline could have looked a whole lot worse.

Line Up: Renshaw, Doyle, Knight-Percival, Lloyd(Evans 88), Proctor(Angus 69) Quansah, Moore, Burgess(Hilton 57) Minihan(Thomson 69) Philliskirk, Curran-Nicholls(Lunt 57)

Media MOTM: Chris Renshaw

Attendance 4272 with 75 travelling fans. That is the highest gate we have played in front of in National North beating the 3724 at Stockport in 2018-19.