 Sharp is the Iron's top-scorer with 22 this season |
Goals from Billy Sharp and Jermaine Beckford saw the league leaders power to an easy win over the woeful Swans. Sharp put Scunthorpe in front on three minutes, Swansea keeper Willy Gueret's save with his feet falling to the top scorer who gave a clinical finish.
The home side's misery increased when striker Adebayo Akinfenwa was stretchered off with a broken leg.
And, when Gueret could only parry a long-range strike from Neil Mackenzie, Beckford was left with a simple tap-in.
The defeat was Swansea's first under caretaker boss Kevin Nugent, following Saturday's draw at Doncaster, and it leaves them five points adrift of sixth-placed Tranmere in the race for the play-offs.
Swansea: Gueret, Duffy, Iriekpen (Tate 46), Lawrence, Painter, Robinson, O'Leary, Craney (Pratley 46), Butler, Akinfenwa (Abbott 46), Trundle.
Subs Not Used: Oakes, Austin.
Booked: Duffy, Trundle, Pratley, Robinson.
Scunthorpe: Murphy, Mulligan, Crosby, Foster (Butler 90), Ridley, Taylor (Morris 90), Hinds, Goodwin, Hurst (MacKenzie 52), Beckford, Sharp.
Subs Not Used: Lillis, Foy.
Booked: Beckford, Hurst, Murphy, Ridley.
Goals: Sharp 3, Beckford 71.
Att: 10,746
Ref: D McDermid (Hampshire).
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