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1¹ KOZAK ran onto a great ball from SHEVCHENKO but pulled his shot wide of the goal. 4¹ A shot from PEARSON held little difficulty for KUSZCZAK. 9¹ GOAL!! A shot from ALLART flew through a crowd of players and trickled past the unsighted Rochdale 'keeper. (1-0 Tranmere Rovers) 10¹ GOAL!! The creative WALLACE neatly nodded on a cross for KOZAK to crack the ball in. (1-1) 12¹ A weak shot from ALLART bounced agonisingly wide. 13¹ KOZAK's shot was well saved by KUSZCZAK. 18¹ WALLACE headed wide. 27¹ A good effort from LUA-LUA scraped the outside of the righthand post. 28¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in REDDY driving a low shot wide. 33¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal HUSEKLEPP turned and stroked the ball past the 'keeper. (2-1 Tranmere Rovers) 37¹ A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper. 43¹ DIOP stroked a simple chance past the near post. 44¹ SHEVCHENKO worked the ball to O'CONNOR, PEARSON controlled his pass and nodded the ball within easy reach of the Tranmere Rovers 'keeper. 45¹ A clever cross from DIOP was nudged goalbound by PEARSON only for the 'keeper to claw away. 8² O'CONNOR made space on the left and touched the ball to SHEVCHENKO who fired the ball wide. 14² KOZAK dribbled away from GRIFFITHS and rifled a poor shot wide. 15² GOAL!! A long ball from BAIRD down the middle bobbled toward the lurking KOZAK who placed a right foot shot into the net. (2-2) 34² A shot from HUSEKLEPP seemed a certain goal but HAAS managed to force the ball away. 36² A useful ball from BOYATA on the left found HUSEKLEPP who sliced his shot just wide. 38² Uncertainty in the Tranmere Rovers defence enabled KOZAK to crack the ball just wide. 40² GOAL!! A long clearance by the Tranmere Rovers 'keeper beat the Rochdale defence and LUA-LUA stroked the ball beyond the oncoming 'keeper. (3-2 Tranmere Rovers) 46² WALLACE hoofed the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area.

Tranmere Rovers   League position: 16 Home league form: WXLL Overall league form: LWWXLXLL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Tomasz KUSZCZAK 6  1 7  Daniel HAAS Dedryck BOYATA 6½ 2 8½ Vedran CORLUKA MARCOS ALONSO Mendoza 7½ 3 8  Ross WALLACE JAVI GARCÍA 6½ 4 8  Chris BAIRD Alan TATE 6  5 7½ John O'SHEA(c) Leon ANDREASEN 6½ 6 6½ Santiago VERGINI Rostyn GRIFFITHS 6  7 7  Igor SHEVCHENKO Erik HUSEKLEPP 6½ 8 8  Stephen PEARSON (p)Alexis ALLART 5½ 9 7½ Libor KOZAK(p) (f)Michael REDDY 6  10 6½ Papa Bouba DIOP(f) (c)Lomano LUA-LUA 6  11 6½ Garry O'CONNOR Manager Matthew BRIGGS    12    Hérita ILUNGA Diego PENNY    13    Sam JOHNSTONE Orlando SÁ    14    Joseph YOBO Jon OTSEMOBOR 6  15    Darren WRACK Danny COLLINS    16    Danny LIVESEY

Rochdale   League position: 9 Away league form: LWLW Overall league form: WLXWLLWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Tranmere Rovers 3 Rochdale 2 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 16,653, Stadium: Prenton Park, Referee: Keith Hill 6) Allart 9¹, Huseklepp 33¹, Lua-Lua 40² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Kozak 10¹, Kozak 15² AllartóOtsemobor 41²           6 0 17 5 2 3 4 7 7 10 11 17 1 5 40% 60% ¶ Man of the match: Vedran Corluka ¶