Knill - We came out of it with a lot of credit

After some poor performances this season, including a 4-0 defeat last weekend, Scunthorpe put on a good showing against Norwich in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday.

Against a quality Norwich side The Iron pushed them hard with Alan Knill happy with the account his players gave: 'We came off a really poor result on Saturday and you are playing against a Premier League team and we just looked at their team when it came out and thought 'that team could easily win the Championship, the team that we played tonight'.

'I thought it was important the players gave a decent account of themselves and the team gave a good account of itself and I thought we did that.'

The Iron had chances; most notably an early effort well saved with the Scunthorpe boss knowing that was "the one" that got away!

All in all though he feels his side can be more than please with their efforts and come out with a lot of credit: 'That was the one, wasn't it. We had a great chance then they go up the other end and have a lot of possession.

'Then they score on 30 minutes and you go 'here we go' but it was a good time to score (the equaliser) and I thought we were in the game.

'Obviously we are all disappointed we lost because we had chances and I thought it was a good game of football - two teams trying to play the right way and I thought we came out of it with a lot of credit.'

Taking the positives from this and transferring them into the league one form is now a must for Scunthorpe.

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