Bristol Rovers 2-2 Tranmere Rovers: result and report

League Two · Saturday 20 November 2021

Result

Bristol Rovers 2-2 Tranmere Rovers

League Two · Saturday 20 November 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Bristol Rovers · Tranmere Rovers · League Two predictions

Bristol Rovers 2-2 Tranmere Rovers: match report

Bristol Rovers drew with Tranmere Rovers 2-2 in the League Two on Saturday 20 November 2021. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Josh Grant opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Bristol Rovers's goals came from Josh Grant (5') and Sam Nicholson (22'). Tranmere Rovers scored through Calum MacDonald (25') and Paul Glatzel (75').

Discipline: Bristol Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Tranmere Rovers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bristol Rovers were 14th on 21 points from 16 and Tranmere Rovers 12th on 22 points from 16. Bristol Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 80 points, and Tranmere Rovers 9th with 75.

Bristol Rovers lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Tranmere Rovers in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Paul Glatzel of Tranmere Rovers (8.1), ahead of Sam Finley (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Bristol Rovers wins, 3 draws and 3 for Tranmere Rovers.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Josh GrantBristol Rovers · 1-0
  • 22'Goal · Sam NicholsonBristol Rovers · 2-0
  • 25'Goal · Calum MacDonaldTranmere Rovers · 2-1
  • 32'Yellow card · Alfie KilgourBristol Rovers
  • 32'Yellow card · Calum MacDonaldTranmere Rovers
  • 36'Yellow card · N. Knight-PercivalTranmere Rovers
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Tom DaviesTranmere Rovers
  • 63'Yellow card · Antony EvansBristol Rovers
  • 75'Goal · Paul GlatzelTranmere Rovers · 2-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bristol Rovers 4, draws 3, Tranmere Rovers 3.

Team news

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Bristol Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)

James Belshaw, Alfie Kilgour, Connor Taylor, Cian Harries, Harry Anderson, Sam Finley, Paul Coutts, Joshua Grant, Antony Evans, Sion Spence, Sam Nicholson

Tranmere Rovers line-up (5-3-2)

Ross Doohan, Josh Dacres-Cogley, Tom Davies, Peter Clarke, Nathaniel Knight-Percival, C. MacDonald, Kieron Morris, Lee O'Connor, Josh Hawkes, Paul Glatzel, Elliott Nevitt