Swindon 4 Scunthorpe 2 

Sendings-off spark Town recovery from 2-0 down

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RESULT: Swindon 4 Scunthorpe 2

Town scorers: Timlin 62, Wright OG 71, Robson-Kanu 82, Peacock 85 Scunthorpe scorers: Hooper 26, Lansbury 39; Byrne sent-off 47, Mirfin sent-off 60

If ever there was a game of two halves, this was it.

 

Swindon, 2-0 down at the break after Scunthorpe clinically took two opportunities against the run of play, scored four second-half goals in a bizarre forty-five minutes that saw the visitors reduced to nine men.

 

Turning the game upside down: Billy Paynter tussles with a Scunthorpe defender calyx multimedia

 

The game hinging on the dismissals of Byrne and Mirfin, both for second bookable offences. Mirfin lucky to be on the pitch after a first-half challenge on Michael Timlin should have resulted in an earlier red card.

 

Timlin ironically being the man to first punish Scunthorpe for their ill discipline with a low, well-struck shot just two minutes after the second red card; an own goal and a first goal from Robson-Kanu completing the turn-around.

 

The final icing on the cake for Town fans coming when Lee Peacock fired home with five minutes to go.

 

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The win keeps Town just above the relegation zone after near rivals Brighton and Orient also both won.

The League One table:

 

1 Leicester 33 36 73
2 MK Dons 31 28 61
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3 Peterborough 32 16 57
4 Oldham 32 12 54
5 Scunthorpe 30 12 53
6 Millwall 30 6 52
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7 Stockport 32 13 51
8 Leeds 32 12 51
9 Tranmere 32 6 49
10 Huddersfield 32 -4 47
11 Walsall 32 -1 43
12 Colchester 31 0 42
13 Southend 31 -11 40
14 Bristol Rovers 30 7 39
15 Yeovil 31 -12 37
16 Hartlepool 32 -7 36
17 Carlisle 31 -8 36
18 Northampton 30 -2 33
19 Swindon 30 -6 33
20 Leyton Orient 32 -14 33
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21 Brighton 30 -11 31
22 Crewe 30 -23 28
23 Hereford 30 -17 27
24 Cheltenham 30 -32 21

 
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