Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Sheffield United: result and report

Championship · Saturday 23 October 2010

Result

Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Sheffield United

Championship · Saturday 23 October 2010, 16:15 UTC · half-time 2-0

Doncaster Rovers · Sheffield United · Championship predictions

Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Sheffield United: match report

Doncaster Rovers won against Sheffield United 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 23 October 2010. It was 2-0 at half-time.

James Coppinger opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Doncaster Rovers's goals came from James Coppinger (33') and Billy Sharp (42'). Sheffield United did not score.

Discipline: Doncaster Rovers received 1 yellow card; Sheffield United received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Doncaster Rovers were 16th on 16 points from 12 and Sheffield United 18th on 15 points from 12. Doncaster Rovers went on to finish that season 21st with 48 points, and Sheffield United 23rd with 42.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Doncaster Rovers win, 2 draws and 1 for Sheffield United.

Going into the match Doncaster Rovers's last five read L-W-D-L-L and Sheffield United's W-D-L-D-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Yellow card · Stephen QuinnSheffield United
  • 33'Goal · James CoppingerDoncaster Rovers · 1-0
  • 42'Goal · Billy SharpDoncaster Rovers · 2-0
  • 45'Yellow card · Mustapha DumbuyaDoncaster Rovers

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Doncaster Rovers 1, draws 2, Sheffield United 1.

Team news

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Neil Sullivan, Shelton Martis, Mustapha Dumbuya, Martin Woods, John Oster, James Coppinger, Patrick McCarthy, James Hayter, James O'Connor, Brian Stock, Joseph Mills

Sheffield United line-up

Steve Simonsen, Nyron Nosworthy, Johannes Ertl, Jean Calve, Ritchie De Laet, Mark Yeates, S. Quinn, Daniel Bogdanović, Richard Cresswell, Chris Morgan, Leon Britton