Southport manager Jim Bentley felt that the Hereford substitutions won the game for the visitors yesterday.
"We got into the game and started to create some opportunities. We got ourselves back on level terms through a great strike.
"But their second and third goals were just too easy.
"One opportunity that sticks in my mind, the one from set play when it's cleared off the line.
"Goals change games, everyone says that.
"We had that opportunity to go 2-1 up, it could have been a different story.
"Then we give a foul away and the second goal is killer because it gives them a shot in the arm, something to cling onto to.
"Their subs were very good when they came on.
"Babos scored two and Williams scored one. That's two of their subs.
"To lose the game 4-1 is very disappointing. Never saw a 4-1 coming but that's football.
"Credit to Hereford, they are a good outfit.
"But that second goal was the killer one, it just opened the whole game up."