Tisdale on Winning at Scunthorpe “four-nil didn’t do them justice today”

Exeter City moved in to third place in League 2 this afternoon after a magnificent 4-0 win at Glanford Park, Scunthorpe.

Scunthorpe United 0		Exeter City 4
01 Slocombe		01 Krysiak
26 Byrne		05 Baldwin
03 Dawson		03 Woodman
04 McAllister		14 Doherty
05 Mirfin		04 Bennett
06 Canavan		06 Coles
07 Sparrow		22 Keohane
24 Syers		07 Sercombe
28 Spencer		19 O’Flynn Booked
08 Burton		10 Gow
10 Esajas		11 Davies
Substitutes		Substitutes
02 Ribeiro		15 Moore-Taylor
13 Severn		25 Parkin
14 Hawkridge		26 Tillson
15 Waterfall		29 Grimes
16 Adelakun		30 Pym
23 Wootton		32 Wheeler
29 Winnall		35 Gill
Substitutions
Scunthorpe	Sparrow replaced by Hawkridge 53,  McAllister replaced by Adelakun 73 and Esajas replaced by Winnall 53
Exeter City	Grimes on for Keohane 69, Gill on for 69 and Doherty and Parkin replaced Gow 73
Goalscorers
		Liam Sercombe (34)
		Arron Davies (49)
		Liam Sercombe (50)
		Sam Parkin (90+)
Match Stats
	SUFC	ECFC
Possession	54%	46%
Shots	19	17
On target	7	5
Corners	12	1
Fouls	14	9
Discipline
Scunthorpe	McAllister, Hawkridge
Exeter City	Doherty, Woodman and O’Flynn
Attendance: 3,250 with 118 away Grecians
Ref: Charles Breakspear
Exeter City’s match report		Exeter’s match-report
Scunthorpe’s match report		scunthorpe-united.co.uk report-

Tisdale said post match:-

It’s a fantastic result. It’s all about whether you score more than the opposition, and we did. That’s the most important statistic of them all.

Scunthorpe looked a really good team, and four-nil didn’t do them justice today, but that’s football. We were on the wrong end of it last week and we were on completely the correct end of it this week.

What gave us the platform was the defending. We were patient and covered the right areas, and tougher in the box. They were a good side and we had to be really focused, have a capacity to concentrate and to be tough defensively and we did.

After the first 15 minutes, they got on top of the game and there weren’t too many times when we were able to move them about – but when we did, it all opened up for us.

But let’s not get too pleased – last week we didn’t want to get too disappointed. It’s three points.

I could hear Mel [Gwinnett] shouting at them with a minute to go to try to keep a clean-sheet. That’s the sort of thing you have to do – it’s a bit galling if you’re on the other bench, but that’s what it means to be a professional and take pride in what you do.

Brian Laws, the Scunthorpe manager, said on this defeat:-

It is difficult to take, any defeat is difficult to take.

You do not plan for that in the build up to the game and I never thought that we would be bridged four times.”

We have had 20 shots today and we did not score one, on the other hand Exeter had five shots and they scored four goals. They just took their chances.

It is so easy for everybody to jump on it and say that we have been hammered 4-0 but you needed to have been here at the ground to see that we was not outplayed.”

I think their second goal really epitomises the whole game.

It was a fluke of a goal and I really do not know what their guy was thinking when he struck it. It certainly was not meant and he could try it 1 million times and he wouldn’t be able to do it

90 minutes in 90 seconds, The Club’s official video.