Source: Team_Talk
O'Driscoll thrilled with away win
Billy Sharp opened the scoring just before the break and Martin Woods and James Hayter completed the victory in the second half.[LNB]It was the first time Rovers had won at Selhurst Park and O'Driscoll said: "In this league you have to not only perform, you have to do things like defend, and we did really well.[LNB]"I thought we were excellent. Palace are a difficult team to defend against and we took our chances well.[LNB]"In this division you need a little bit of luck and we took it. Regardless of the result, I told my players they were organised, our back four especially."[LNB]Palace should have been 2-0 up after half an hour but for two glaring misses from Neil Danns and Darren Ambrose.[LNB]Danns somehow managed to fire wide of an empty net from five yards out after Neil Sullivan had parried Victor Moses's shot into his path.[LNB]Then Ambrose tripped over the rebound from another Moses effort.[LNB]Palace manager Neil Warnock could not believe Danns' miss.[LNB]Warnock said: "I haven't got a clue how he missed that. I thought he had had a bet on the game, because there is no other way to explain it.[LNB]"It was a bad miss and it gets worse every time you look at it. And instead of going a goal up we lose by three, which could have been five. I've told him to come up and tell you how he missed it. I'm not sure he will though.[LNB]"We could have been 2-0 up by half-time. I am glad we have got Reading followed by Sheffield United up next. We do a lot better against the big teams."[LNB]Palace's players were told last week their November wages would be delayed until Tuesday at the earliest, due to chairman Simon Jordan's "cash-flow problem".[LNB]But Warnock denied this had anything to do with the performance against Rovers.[LNB]"I'd love to blame it on that, but that wasn't the case," he added.[LNB]Doncaster took a deserved lead four minutes before the break with a well-taken volley from Sharp.[LNB]Warnock must have made his feelings known because Palace came out firing in the second half and dominated for a brief spell.[LNB]Ambrose was denied by Sullivan's one-handed save a minute after the restart before a clutch of Doncaster defenders managed to clear Alan Lee's header off the line.[LNB]But Doncaster soon doubled their lead as Sharp set up Woods to blast home from just inside the box.[LNB]Hayter wrapped things up on 75 minutes by taking advantage of some shoddy Palace marking by rifling home from just inside the area.[LNB][LNB][LNB]
