FINAL SCORE: SCUNTHORPE UNITED 0 NORWICH CITY 1
90 +3 - The referee ends the game.
90 + 2 - Askou replaces Surman.
90th - GOAL! 1-0 CITY! Grant Holt heads home Simon Lappin's cross to the delight of the travelling fans.
89th - City are grateful to a last-ditch block from Nelson who prevented Forte from testing Ruddy.
88th - A second change for City as Simon Lappin replaces Wes Hoolahan.
87th - Crofts become the first Norwich player to be booked following a foul on Woolford.
85th Both managers wave their teams forward for a final push as the game enters the final five minutes.
83rd - Iron sub Michael Collins becomes the first player to enter the referee's notebook when he was cautioned for foul on Hoolahan.
81st - Hoolahan sets Jackson away down the right and the former Gillingham man cuts inside but sends his shot both high and wide.
80th - Paul Lambert makes his first change of the afternoon as Chris Martin makes way for Simeon Jackson.
72nd - Norwich are very much on top and Nelson sees his header from a corner stopped on the line by 'keeper Murphy.
66th - Grant Holt heads home but the Canary celebrations are cut short by the assistant referee's flag.
65th - Scunthorpe make the first changes of the games as Andrew Wright replaces Josh Wright and Michael Collins comes on for Michael O'Connor.
62nd - City break forward and Chris Martin switches play from left to right by picking out the on-rushing Russell Martin but the right-back's cross is both high and wide.
56th - Korey Smith plays in Hoolahan who lets fly from outside the area but his crisp shot is deflected away for a corner. The flag kick was then met by the head of Michael Nelson but sailed over the target.
53rd - Once again City see the ball flash across the face of the hosts' goal. This time Chris Martin wins the ball from Rob Jones on the touchline and his driven cross-cum-shot flies across the goalmouth with no-one on hand to slide the ball home.
47th - City almost take the lead as Chris Martin screws a powerful low shot across the face of the goal after shaking off his marker.
47th - Today's attendance at Glanford Park is 6,042 with the away support from Carrow Road totaling 1,193.
46th - Scunthope get the second half underway. Norwich are now attacking he end where the Yellow Army are massed.
HALF-TIME: SCUNTHORPE UNITED 0 NORWICH CITY 0
45th - A good run from Forte ends with the striker testing Ruddy with a shot that the City 'keeper gathered at his near-post.
41st - The Iron go close again as Forte pulls the ball down before sending a shot over the crossbar.
37th - The home side created the game's best opening of the game so far when the ball fell to Chris Dagnall on the edge of the area, the striker worked a shooting chance but dragged his effort inches wide of Ruddy's left-hand post.
35th - Ruddy has to be smart to stop a shot from Woolford.
33rd - Norwich win a free-kick just inside the Scunthorpe half but when ball is floated into the box the referee awards a free-kick for a foul on the 'keeper.
30th - The home side are starting to see more of the ball and have put a couple of testing crosses into the City box. The first was collected by Ruddy and the second headed out by Nelson for a corner.
27th - City go close again as Chris Martin cracks a low shot from outside the area which Murphy does well to get down to and push away.
25th - End to end stuff now. A deep cross to the far post is met by Iron striker Jonathan Forte who sees his powerful header turned away for a corner by John Ruddy.
23rd - Chris Martin goes close for City. Hoolahan sends a cross into the near post where Martin is on hand to place a header into the side netting.
20th - Good move from City, Hoolahan feeds Holt wide on the right and his low driven cross, looking for strike partner Martin, is gathered by home 'keeper Murphy.
18th - The Iron win their first corner but Surman clears the danger with a near-post header.
16th - Scunthopre launch a long ball forward but Elliott Ward is on hand to head the ball back to John Ruddy.
14th - It's the City fans making most of the noise as they see their team continue to test the hosts.
8th - Norwich force a second corner, again Surman's ball into the box is cleared but City look the better of the two sides in the early exchanges.
5th - City have a big shout for a penalty waved away after Chris Martin looked to have been tripped in the box when trying to control a knock down from Grant Holt.
3rd - City force the first corner but Surman's flag kick is cleared by the home defence.
2nd - It is a bright afternoon at Glanford Park but neither side is able to hold the ball for any period of time.
1st - City kick-off defending the goal housing the travelling Yellow Army.
CITY boss Paul Lambert made two changes to the team that defeated Gillingham in the Carling Cup in midweek for this afternoon's npower Championship match away to Scunthorpe United at Glanford Park.
Andrew Crofts, who was away with Wales and missed the game with the Gills returned to the City midfield as did fellow summer signing Andrew Surman. Simon Lappin and David Fox were the two to make way and they joined Declan Rudd, Simeon Jackson, Oli Johnson, Anthony McNamee and Jens Berthel Askou on the bench.
CITY: Ruddy, R.Martin, Drury, Nelson, Crofts, Holt, Surman (Askou 90), Hoolahan (Lappin 88), C.Martin (Jackson 80), Smith, Ward. Subs not used: Rudd, Fox, Johnson, McNamee.
SCUNTHORPE: Murphy, McNulty, Jones, Woolford, O'Connor (Collins 65), Dagnall, Thompson, Forte, Mirfin, J, Wright (A. Wright 65), Nolan. Subs not used: Slocombe, Byrne, Raynes, Grant, Canavan.
REFEREE: Mr C Sarginson
