SAM Allardyce suffered mixed fortunes with two friendlies on the same day.

Allardyce revised his original plan to field a full-strength senior line-up at Southport after seeing many of his Premiership potentials beat Deportivo Alaves 3-2 in a private friendly at Euxton earlier in the day, atoning for the 2-0 defeat by the Spaniards in the official friendly on Tuesday night. Ricardo Gardner, Akinori Nishizawa and Michael Ricketts got the goals.

Colin Hendry, Djibril Diawara, Anthony Barness, Paul Warhurst and Kevin Nolan started at Southport but found themselves up against it after losing Hendry and leaking two first half goals that embarrassed Greek trialist goalkeeper, Pitkas Evangelos.

Summer signing, Henrik Pedersen headed his first since arriving in a £650,000 transfer from Danish club Silkeborg just before half time but Southport restored their two-goal advantage on 63 minutes by which time the Wanderers' line-up had a distinctly youthful flavour - apart from the introduction of 35-year-old coach Neil McDonald, who was pressed into service at right back.

WANDERERS (v Southport): PitkasEvangelos (Chris Williams,ht), Anthony Barness (Neil McDonald,63), Alan O'Hare, Djibril Diawara (Nicky Hunt, ht), Colin Hendry (Wayne Buchanan,11), Paul Warhurst (Cigran Rwan, ht), David Norris, Kevin Nolan (Emanu Morini,53), Paul Wheatcroft, Henrik Pedersen, Jeff Smith