Scunthorpe United v Leicester City

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Football League Championship

Scunthorpe United :
Murphy, Williams, Byrne, Jones, Mirfin, Togwell (Woolford 54), McCann, O'Connor, J.Wright, Hayes (Thompson 70), Hooper.
Subs not used:
Lillis, Canavan, Friend, A.Wright, Forte.

Leicester City :
Weale, Neilson, Brown, Berner, Hobbs, King, Wellens, Fryatt (Howard 85), Waghorn (N'Guessan 84), Kermorgant, Gallagher.
Subs not used:
Logan, McGivern, Morrison, Oakley, Dyer.

SULSESC REPORT

by Neil Wright at Glanford Park

FOUR defeats on the bounce, no win since beating Newcastle back in October and third-placed Leicester today's opponents... why, oh why did I take the last minute decison to travel up to Scunny to watch what would surely be yet another inept performance by the boys in Claret and Blue?

An exploding boiler on the Friday night meant that Mr. Payne would not be my travelling companion for the journey north. After a couple of lunchtime pints in the Lawyer and, of course, the regulatory steak pie 'n' chips, it was off to the ground to watch the inevitable.

Three minutes gone, and after a sublime touch from on loan Martin Waghorn, the Foxes are one up. It's at this point that I wished I had decided to stay in London and watch Sky Sports News. Let's just say that for the remaining 40 minutes of the half, Leicester totally dominated, apart from Byrne going close with a header on 12 minutes and Hooper, who had the ball in the back of the net on 25, but his effort was ruled offside. Murphy made two outstanding saves to allow us to go into the break still only one goal down.

The second-half started as the first had finished with Leicester dominating play but unable to show any signs of killing us off in front of goal.

Woolford replaced Togwell on 54 minutes and a McCann free kick on 60 minutes was United's first clear cut chance of the half.

Thompson replaced Hayes on 70 minutes and the fresh legs started to cause Leicester problems on the flanks. Leicester continued to press for the remainder of the half but still could not find that decisive killer goal.

With three minutes of additional time shown by the fourth official, a fifth defeat looked to be on the cards. It was to be Woolford who, in fact, scored the 'killer' goal on 90+3 minutes, striking the ball through a crowded box, past a sea of legs and Leicester 'keeper Weale into the back of the net.

This would prove to be the last kick of the game and 5,000 Utd fans departed Glanford Park very relieved.