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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 43 (setup 4, season 34)
Walsall
v.
Bristol Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Adam LEGZDINS516Anssi JAAKKOLA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Liam KINSELLA28Danny McNAMARA
Emmanuel MONTHE3Jack ROBINSON
Joss LABADIE64Joe LOLLEY
Donervon DANIELS5Sepp VAN DEN BERG
Zak MILLS66Rhys WILLIAMS
Luke BOLTON7Rubin COLWILL
Hannibal MEJBRI787Pawel WSZOLEK
Kieran PHILLIPS9Idrissa SYLLA
Joe RANKIN-COSTELLO10Steven LAWLESS
Josh GORDON117Tadanari LEE
Manager
Stephen WARD12Ben REEVES
Carl RUSHWORTH13Gavin REILLY
Rory HOLDEN14Paul COUTTS
Brendan KIERNAN157Tom NICHOLS
Joe WARD16Bambo DIABY

Walsall 2 Bristol Rovers 4
(Half-time: 0-3, Attendance: 10,836, Stadium: Bescot, Referee: Phil CROSSLEY 7)
52 Phillips, 74 PhillipsScorers8 Lee, 16 Robinson, 19 Robinson, 50 Lee
66 Labadie <=> KiernanSubstitutions72 Wszolek <=> Nichols
Sendings off
Bookings4 Lee
0Corners1
9Fouls9
0Offsides4
2Shots on4
5Shots off12
7Total shots16
0Shots saved0
44%Possession56%
Man of the match: Rhys WILLIAMS
4LEE booked for gamesmanship.
8GOAL!! LEE dribbled forward, looked up and slammed a shot into the Walsall net. (1-0 Bristol Rovers)
9An exceptional effort from PHILLIPS scraped the outside of the post.
12A corner was collected by LEE who touched an effort inches wide.
13A free-kick from PHILLIPS floated over.
16GOAL!! A long ball from VAN DEN BERG down the middle was collected by the lurking ROBINSON who blasted a right foot shot into the net. (2-0 Bristol Rovers)
19GOAL!! A beautiful inswinging corner was nodded in at the near post by ROBINSON. (3-0 Bristol Rovers)
24MEJBRI headed over the bar.
33A fine ball from MEJBRI on the left was collected by MONTHE who mishit his effort inches wide.
43LOLLEY ran onto a great ball from WSZOLEK but fired his effort wide of the righthand post.
 
50GOAL!! A short backpass by MILLS enabled LEE to nip in and slide the ball past the Walsall 'keeper. (4-0 Bristol Rovers)
52GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with PHILLIPS blasting the ball into the top corner. (4-1 Bristol Rovers)
53A penalty box meleé resulted in SYLLA driving a low shot wide.
56WSZOLEK shot over.
58A cross from WSZOLEK left ROBINSON in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
61The motionless LEGZDINS was a mere bystander as a backpass from DANIELS dropped just over.
63WSZOLEK hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area.
67GORDON was put clear by PHILLIPS and he dummied the 'keeper but drilled his shot inches over.
70WSZOLEK snapped at an easy chance.
71A tame shot from SYLLA rolled agonisingly wide.
74GOAL!! A neat one-two left PHILLIPS clear and he made no mistake by cleverly flicking the ball beyond the oncoming JAAKKOLA. (4-2 Bristol Rovers)
78NICHOLS fired a deadly shot just beyond the far post from long range.
90LAWLESS beat BOLTON and placed the ball to LEE who fired his effort wide.
90+1A accurate pass bobbled toward LAWLESS and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide.