he does indeed but at home, these same defenders have only conceded 1 goal so far! very strange. 1 thing is for sure, this should give our players a lot of confidence.
Bloody hell! I take the boys over the park for an hour and I miss the most exciting 20 mins of football Rovers have been involved in for ages! Well done Ellis - great stuff. And Lee, LEE - don't take any more penalties! But at last we win away and we sounded like we carried a real threat. UTG!
Yeah sounded a lot better then we've had about bloody time. Anyway roll on Tuesday looking forward to it (normally lose when I looked forward to it) plus I have the next day off
Fair play a great 3 points, well pleased (at last). Seem to have battled till the end although losing a 2 goal lead ? Still its 3 needed points away from The Mem. Well done Rovers.
Whenever we go 2-0 up away we get pegged back. I thought you lot would be used to it by now. Anyway, what a rollercoaster of emotion that was!
Assistant Manager Marcus Stewart paid credit to Lee Brown and Ellis Harrison following today’s 3-2 win against Lincoln City. Harrison’s last minute goal enabled Rovers to register their first away win of the season and was set up by Brown who had missed a penalty just minutes earlier. The spot kick had hit the post and come back into play but, undeterred, Brown set up the winning goal. “I looked over at Lee after the final whistle and his smile showed that he had erased the penalty miss from his mind. “It was a great ball that he played in for Ellis and he’s a player who has great qualities. “Credit, also, to Ellis because he turned his defender before hitting a superb shot past their keeper.” Stewart admitted his heart had been racing as the game came to a close. “I’m a pretty calm sort of person, but I have to admit that the flurry of shots in the final minute of the game put my heart rate up a little bit more, but our players throwing their bodies on the line just to get a result was what got me going.” He and Darrell Clarke felt a third goal was required, even after the side had raced into a two goal lead. “When we were 2-0 ahead in the first half the manager turned to me and said that we needed another goal and he was right, because the game looked a little bit open.” Stuart Sinclair and Daniel Leadbitter, with their first goals for the club, had given Rovers a two goal cushion and both were superb efforts. “They were great goals and put us on the front foot after a hesitant opening. “In terms of our general play we could have done better, but it’s good to get our first away win of the season.”
Bristol Rovers have won on the road for the first time this season following a last-gasp goal from substitute Ellis Harrison at Lincoln City. Harrison slammed a shot into the top corner in the final minute to secure a 3-2 success at Sincil Bank only seconds after Lee Brown had squandered a golden opportunity to win the game by seeing an 87th minute penalty kick come back off the post. Rovers, who had claimed only one of their eleven points this season away from the Memorial Stadium, stunned the home crowd by capitalising on some shocking defending from a lethargic-looking Lincoln City to take a two-goal lead inside the opening 25 minutes following goals from Stuart Sinclair and Daniel Leadbitter. Just as it looked as though Rovers might, for a change, enjoy a relatively comfortable afternoon and canter to a morale-boosting away victory, Lincoln found an extra gear to respond with goals from Sean Newton and Jordan Burrow to level matters in the minutes before half-time. It was pretty-much all Lincoln from that point on, but Rovers went about their business in an organised fashion in order to keep the scores level for much of a second-half before Harrison popped up to win a game with a goal in the final minute for the second time this season. Rovers, meanwhile, had opened the scoring in the 13th minute after central defender Nat Brown inexplicably decided to leave Matt Taylor’s dangerous ball across the face of goal to allow Sinclair the simplest of tap-ins with which to score his first competitive goal since arriving from Salisbury City over the summer. Daniel Leadbitter, who had been recalled for the first time in a month, then doubled the advantage by capitalising on a mix-up between Brown and fellow defender Newton to apply a confident left-footed finish after running on to Taylor’s hopeful pass in behind in the 22nd minute. Lincoln had looked anything but dangerous up until that point, but were offered an avenue of opportunity for a comeback when referee Ben Toner decided that Neal Trotman had handled the ball when tussling with midfielder Hamza Bencherif in the penalty area in the 36th minute. Newton stepped up to send goalkeeper Steve Mildenhall the wrong way before striker Jordan Burrow bundled home the equaliser on the stroke of half-time after a high ball had fallen kindly for him inside the penalty area. Lincoln certainly had the better of the exchanges for much of a second-half during which Rovers rode their luck at times before defender Tony Diagne was adjudged to have fouled Sinclair inside the penalty area with only a matter of three minutes remaining. Brown beat the goalkeeper – but not the post – from the penalty spot before Harrison struck from the right-hand side of the penalty area soon after to spark scenes of wild celebration amongst the 211 travelling supporters. Rovers (3-5-2): Mildenhall; Lockyer, Trotman, Parkes; Leadbitter (Martin, 62) Mansell, Clarke, Sinclair, Brown; Taylor (Cunnington, 71) Monkhouse (Harrison, 53). Subs: McChrystal, Puddy. Lincoln City (4-3-3): Townsend; Caprice, Diagne, Brown, Newton; Nolan (Sam-Yorke, 76) Mendy, Power; Bencherif, Burrow, Tomlinson. Subs: Kabba, Ledsham, Marshall, Preece.
