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  • Kick-off: 19:45
  • Venue: Blundell Park
  • Attendance: 3486
  • Referee: Deadman, D

Live Commentary

90mins

That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.

90mins

Hartlepool are replacing Ali Gibb with Eifion Williams.

90mins

Goal!! Joel Porter scores for Hartlepool.

85mins

Goal!! Jon Daly scores for Hartlepool.

83mins

Willie Boland goes into the referees book for dissent.

81mins

Gary Croft goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

70mins

Tony Thorpe is replaced by Andy Taylor.

65mins

Grimsby are replacing Peter Beagrie with Peter Bore.

61mins

Nick Fenton goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

52mins

Goal!! Gary Liddle scores for Hartlepool.

51mins

Ricky Ravenhill is booked for unsporting behaviour.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 1.

45mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

45mins

Jon Daly takes a penalty for Hartlepool and scores!.

35mins

Anthony Sweeney is replaced by Willie Boland.

16mins

Goal!! Grimsby have scored with Nick Fenton putting it in the back of the net.

0mins

The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.

Match Report

Hartlepool made it nine goals from successive away games as they came from behind to win at Grimsby.

But the match turned on an incident in first-half added time with Grimsby leading through centre-back Nick Fenton's header from a 16th minute corner.

Grimsby winger Peter Beagrie unnecessarily brought down Matty Robson and up stepped Jon Daly to bury the penalty and put Hartlepool level.

After that it was simply one-way traffic. Gary Liddle fired home a free-kick from 25 yards on 52 minutes to put Hartlepool 2-1 ahead.

There was no further scoring until the final six minutes when a back-pass let in Daly on 84 minutes for his second goal and Hartlepool's third.

Then Joel Porter completed the rout in stoppage time with a fine solo effort.

The second half was in complete contrast to an even first period with Hartlepool starting well before being pegged back by Grimsby opener.

Midfielder Ricky Ravenhill hit the post and if that had gone in the home side would have been two goals ahead.

But then came the match-changing incident at the end of the first half from which Hartlepool never looked back.

The patient home fans finally turned on their manager and players with chants of "what a load of rubbish'' as Grimsby simply ran out of ideas and were devoid of any shape.

This was Grimsby's second home defeat after being unbeaten in the league since January and the alarm bells are now clearly ringing for manager Graham Rodger.

Grimsby Town

Hartlepool United

Corners

410

Fouls

187

Goal attempts

1118

Shots off target

88

Offsides

16

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