Unfortunately, today's pitch passed the pitch inspection after an awful amount of rain fell overnight and this morning.
Todays line up v Port Vale Southwood, Moore, Mola, Thomas, Lockyer, Cotterill, Harrison, Conteh, Bilongo, Negru, Cavegn Subs Young, Sparkes, Forde, McEachran, Howley, Issaka, Lopata, Morton, Dewsbry 6th miute Vale have the ball in the net but are saved by the off side flag 11th minute corner to Vale cleared by Harrison and Cavegn 19th minute Headley found space o the left hand side but shot over, Will Murray feels the opener is coming for Vale 21st minute corner to Vale which is over hit and goes out for a throw to Rovers 23rd minute a cross from John is intercepted by Negru, a tussle then ensues between the players with Rovers asking for a card to be shown, ref now consulting the linesman with Hall Lockyer Paton and Conteh all shown yellow cards, Murray saying the momentum has now gone out of the game
31st minute Bilongo wins a free kick for Rovers which finds Harrison whose point blank range shot is expertly saved by Ben Amos 33rd Thomas then wins the ball back to find Cavegn who fires wide of the post 34th minute Headley dribbles past a couple of players before shooting well wide past the post 38th minute Paton finds space on the left before cutting in only to see his shot blocked 40th minute Bilongo wins a defensive header before driving up theptch and shooting wide from the edge of the box 43rd minute Rovers when Cavegn's shot is turned out for a corner which Conteh puts high and wide 3 minutes extra time to be played 45+3 Waine shoots over from 6 yards out HT Port Vale 0 - 0 Rovers
Rovers restart the 2nd half no changes announced 46th minute Waine nets for Vale Port Vale 1 - 0 Rovers Is that their first shot on target again 51st minute Lopata and Forde on Negru and Bilongo off Will Murray saying Rovers look disjointed with Harrison's options looking limited whenRovers win the ball back and Vale look in complete control 58th minute a lull in the game with Rovers needing a moment of magic to get back in the game 59th minute Thomas wins the ball back but Harrison cant get onto the cross and Vale get a goal kick 62nd minute Hall goes past Mola but his cross goes over everybody's head 64th minute McEachran and Issaka replace Cotterill and Issaka, doesn't say who Issaka replaced apart from himself according to Sky he replaced Thomas
66th minute Corner to Vale which is flicked on and misses everybody at the back post 68th minute Paton hits the side netting 71st minute Conteh finds Cavegn whose cross is diverted out for a corner which is claimed by Amos 15 minutes plus extra time to play and only 1 substitution to make, can we get a goal or keep the defeat down to a single goal or are we just going to cave in next match home to Swindon who are 3 ahead of Bolton after 77 minutes, time to get worried??? 78th minute Byers header saved by Southwood from a Vale corner 79th minute Morton on Harrison off 81st minute Morton finds Issaks who shoots well over the bar 83rd minute Moore yellow carded 84th minuteLockyers ball over the top finds Morton whose is deflected for a corner which is cleared but won back by Conteh who then shhots over the bar
87th minute Rovers having more possession but Vale defending in depth 89th minute McEachran's ball over the top finds Cavegn who finds Conteh who shoots over the top 90th minute free kick to Vale with just 4 minutes of extra time to be played which is headed over Rovers then go into the Vale half and win a throw in which is wasted but the ball finds Southwood who finds Morton who wins a corner which clears everyone including Southwood who had gone forward for it FT Port Vale 1 - 0 Bristol Rovers Well at least we won't get a plum draw and lose by a cricket score Swindon 4 - 0 Bolton that could well happen next week Attendance today 3227
