Bristol Rovers 1-1 Hartlepool United: result and report
League Two · Tuesday 1 March 2016
Result
Bristol Rovers 1-1 Hartlepool United
League Two · Tuesday 1 March 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-0
Bristol Rovers 1-1 Hartlepool United: match report
Bristol Rovers drew with Hartlepool United 1-1 in the League Two on Tuesday 1 March 2016. The half-time score was 3-0.
Matty Taylor opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Bristol Rovers's goals came from Matty Taylor (10'), Rory Gaffney (31'), Matty Taylor (38') and Matty Taylor (56'). Hartlepool United scored through Billy Paynter (52').
Discipline: Bristol Rovers received 1 yellow card; Hartlepool United received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Bristol Rovers were 6th on 55 points from 32 and Hartlepool United 23rd on 26 points from 30. Bristol Rovers went on to finish that season 2nd with 86 points, and Hartlepool United 19th with 48.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Bristol Rovers wins, 5 draws and 1 for Hartlepool United.
Going into the match Bristol Rovers's last five read L-W-D-L-D and Hartlepool United's D-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Matty Taylor
- 27'Yellow card · Nicky Featherstone
- 31'Goal · Rory Gaffney
- 38'Goal · Matty Taylor
- 52'Goal · Billy Paynter
- 53'Yellow card · Jake Carroll
- 56'Goal · Matty Taylor
- 72'Yellow card · Mark McChrystal
- 82'Yellow card · Brad Walker
Head-to-head
Team news
Bristol Rovers line-up
Steve Mildenhall, Lee Brown, Tom Lockyer, Mark McChrystal, James Clarke, Lee Mansell, Chris Lines, Liam Lawrence, M. Taylor, Billy Bodin, Rory Gaffney
Hartlepool United expected line-up
Trevor Carson, Matthew Bates, Adam Jackson, Carl Magnay, Jake Carroll, Jake Gray, Nicky Featherstone, Nathan Thomas, B. Paynter, Luke James