SOUTHEND UNITED march on to another fantastic victory, this time at the expense of high flying Scunthorpe United.
In a thoroughly entertaining game at Roots Hall, witnessed by a crowd of 6028. The Blues continue to find some nice form, thanks to their goal scorer’s Theo Robinson & Alan McCormack, and also in no small part to some brilliant saves from keeper Steve Mildenhall to stop the inform combination of Gary Hooper and Paul Hayes on a number of occasions.
Francis Laurent pulled up with a hamstring injury and had to be replaced in the first half by Lee Barnard – the change being a natural one didn’t seem to effect the play from Southend and could have easily been 2 or 3 up during the first 45 mins.
Anthony Grant ran his socks off and this was close to being his finest performance in a Southend shirt, unfortunately he looked to have picked up some kind of thigh injury and was replaced by Simon Francis on 73 mins.
Infact Grant made the telling pass on 53 mins to set up Robinson who rounded the on-coming keeper and drilled a from the edge of the penalty box into the bottom corner of the Scunthorpe goal
Southend 1:0 Scunthorpe – 53 mins
Scunthorpe pushed forward in waves towards the end but some solid defending saw Southend United keep the score to nil.
A Barnard pass onto McCormack saw the Irish man hit a sweet strike from just inside the box and into the bottom right of the Scunthorpe net! His first goal since that brilliant strike against Huddersfield last season – and how he liked it!
Southend 2:0 Scunthorpe – 86 mins
7 Minutes of injury time was added by Mr Wright due to lengthy injuries to Murphy the Scunthorpe keeper who at one point looked like he was going to be stretched off.
On 93 mins the first and only yellow card of the night is picked up by Barnard for not moving back the necessary distance from a free kick.
The final change of the night came on Damien Scannell replaces Robinson with only a couple of minutes left.
All in all a fantastic result for the Blues on the back of that great Essex derby day win.
Final whistle
Southend 2:0 Scunthorpe
Man of Match
Steve Mildenhall
A final point of interest is that our Essex Cousins managed a win tonight against another high flyer in the form of Stockport County – however in front of a crowd of only 3179. Rather pathetic if you compare it to the gate of double that and a bit more of the weekend, okay I’ll give them that it was a midweek match but still!
Up the Blues
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