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Tuesday, September 02, 2008, 21:41
Richard Butcher put the Magpies ahead after just nine minutes, directing a delightful left-foot effort past Iron keeper Josh Lillis and into the bottom corner of the net, after Sean Canham had headed Ben Fairclough’s cross into his path on the edge of the penalty area.
Russell Hoult then made two great saves to deny the home side.
He parried a stinging long-range effort from winger Martyn Woolford and then tipped a Grant McCann free-kick past his left-hand upright at full-stretch.
Scunthorpe piled the pressure on Notts in the closing minutes of the first half with left-back Marcus Williams raiding forward and unleashing a powerful effort that flew just over the crossbar.
They started the second half the same way and Matt Sparrow thundered a long-range effort against the crossbar on 48 minutes.
A great last-ditch tackle from Adam Tann then denied Ben May from close-range and Canham blocked a powerful strike from Krystian Pearce, as the Iron continued to threaten the Magpies’ lead.
Notts replied just after the hour mark with Matt Hamshaw playing a neat interchange with Delroy Facey and racing into the box. He fired an early low effort that Lillis parried, and the rebound fell to Canham who rifled a first-time shot that the Iron keeper smothered.
The Magpies made a double substitution on 71 minutes, with Myles Weston and Neil MacKenzie coming on. Weston made an immediate impact, racing down the left wing and crossing into the penalty area for Facey, but the striker sent a glancing header just wide of the far post.
May directed a free header wide of the post from a corner on 78 minutes and Jonathan Forte then hit the foot of the post from the edge of the penalty area in the closing stages.
Tann was stretchered off with a facial injury in the dying minutes, following an aerial challenge with May.
And then the Iron levelled in injury-time, with Paul Hayes heading past Hoult at the far post from Ian Morris’ corner.
Hayes then netted the winner from close-range in the third minute of injury-time after Notts failed to clear a long throw-in.
SCUNTHORPE: Lillis, Byrne, Mirfin, Pearce, Williams, Sparrow, McCann, Morris, Woolford, Hayes, May. Subs: Slocombe, Lea (for Williams, 90), Wright, Forte (for McCann, 67), Hooper (for Mirfin, 81).
NOTTS: Hoult, Beardsley, Edwards, Tann, Mayo, Hamshaw, Butcher, Smith, Fairclough, Facey, Canham. Subs: Pilkington, Johnson (for Tann, 90), MacKenzie (Fairclough, 71), Weston (for Canham, 71), Weir-Daley.
ATTENDANCE: 1,755 (129 away).
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