Bristol Rovers 2-1 Chesterfield: result and report
League One · Saturday 18 March 2017
Result
Bristol Rovers 2-1 Chesterfield
League One · Saturday 18 March 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Bristol Rovers 2-1 Chesterfield: match report
Bristol Rovers beat Chesterfield 2-1 in the League One on Saturday 18 March 2017. The half-time score was 2-0.
Ollie Clarke opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Bristol Rovers's goals came from Ollie Clarke (1') and R. Gaffney (18'). Chesterfield scored through Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (85').
Discipline: Bristol Rovers received 1 yellow card; Chesterfield received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Bristol Rovers were 8th on 54 points from 38 and Chesterfield 23rd on 33 points from 38. Bristol Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 66 points, and Chesterfield 24th with 37.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Bristol Rovers win, 1 draw and 3 for Chesterfield.
Going into the match Bristol Rovers's last five read L-W-W-D-D and Chesterfield's D-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Ollie Clarke
- 18'Goal · R. Gaffney
- 20'Yellow card · Kristian Dennis
- 39'Missed penalty · Luke James
- 67'Yellow card · Jon Nolan
- 69'Yellow card · C. Dimaio
- 82'Yellow card · Ryan Sweeney
- 85'Goal · Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Head-to-head
Team news
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Bristol Rovers line-up
Joe Lumley, Daniel Leadbitter, Lee Brown, Tom Lockyer, Cristian Montano, Ryan Sweeney, Ollie Clarke, Chris Lines, Billy Bodin, Luke James, Rory Gaffney
Chesterfield line-up
Thorsten Stuckmann, Paul McGinn, Daniel Jones, Sam Hird, Dion Donohue, Tom Anderson, Osman Kakay, Abdelhak Belaid, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Kristian Dennis, Rai Simons