Scunthorpe 3 Swindon 1 

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RESULT: Scunthorpe Utd 3 Swindon Town 1

 

Scunthorpe scorers: Madden 62, Canavan 76, van Veen 79

Swindon scorer: Smith 44

 

 

Promotion to the Championship was looking just a little further away for Swindon Town on Saturday as they fell to their second consecutive defeat in a week, this time at Glanford Park.

 

It was a game, though, that started well enough for the Robins.

 

Michael Smith netted his first of 2015 after a run of eight games with a goal to ensure Town went into half time with a lead.

 

But a second-half to forget left a shaken looking Swindon with egg on their faces.

 

An irritated Town manager Mark Cooper commented: "We’ve scored two goals in our last three away games and had large periods of domination. We need to score more. Whatever team we pick for the next game we’ve got to have scoring goals in mind."

 

The top of League One

 

1 Bristol City 29 28 61
2 Swindon 30 24 57
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3 MK Dons 30 31 56
4 Preston 29 16 53
5 Sheff Utd 28 7 45
6 Oldham 30 0 43
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7 Chesterfield 30 3 42
8 Doncaster 29 3 42
9 Bradford 28 4 41
10 Peterborough 30 0 41

NEXT FEW GAMES:

 

Crawley (H)

Saturday 21 Feb, 3.00pm

 

Bradford (H)

Tuesday 24 Feb, 7.45pm