After a nice New Years Day walk to the ground I was looking forward to seeing some decent football between two good Conf North sides. There were plenty of familiar faces on the opposition for both sets of fans, sadly the Southport supporters werent too friendly to our former favourites and had to be warned about sectarian and racist abuse.
The game was okay but Southport looked like champagne left over from the night before, a little lacking in fizz. Both sides attacked but it was Burscough who took the lead. Southport had had a change in keeper, with Whiteside dropped to the bench after his nightmare performance against Barrow, Smith was on loan to Fleetwood and Drench had come in on loan from Morecambe.
Neil Robinson and Liam Blakeman worked hard and Bennett continued to show his good form. Robinson scored against his old club to bring the scores level and should have taken the lead on at least one chance.
Again Prince was left out and the squad looked lacking in experience. Burscough were combative but only Powell seemed up for a fight for Southport. Duffy was booked again and will surely miss some games soon.
It was a fair result but both sides should have expected to win the match.
Southport need something extra and have looked below par for a while now. Players like Prince and Gray haven't continued the fine form they had at the start of the season and the team is lacking as a result.
MOTM: Neil Robinson (despite his miss)
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