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The ref has blown his whistle for full time.
Goal!! Steve Guinan scores for Hereford.
Goal!! Chris Lines scores for Bristol Rovers.
Bristol Rovers are replacing Rickie Lambert with Ben Hunt.
Darryl Duffy is being taken off, Andy Williams has come on in his place.
Goal!! Bristol Rovers have scored with Rickie Lambert putting it in the back of the net.
Clint Easton is being taken off, Jack McLeod has come on in his place.
Simon Johnson is being taken off, Matt Done has come on in his place.
Goal!! Bristol Rovers have scored with Jeff Hughes putting it in the back of the net.
Hereford are replacing Moses Ashikodi with Bradley Hudson-Odoi.
The second half is under way with the score currently at 3 v 0.
Half time whistle is blown by A Hall
The referee has booked Sam Oji.
Goal!! Bristol Rovers have scored with Darryl Duffy putting it in the back of the net.
The referee has booked David Pipe.
Goal!! Rickie Lambert scores for Bristol Rovers.
It's 3pm on Saturday, August 23rd, the match has kicked off.
Manager Graham Turner warned newly-promoted Hereford United before the start that they would have to cut out defensive mistakes if they are to survive in League One. Within five minutes they were two down, 17 minutes on Rovers were three-up and it all became a rout. Hereford's misery began as Darryl Duffy, Rovers' £100,000 signing from Swansea City, chased down a long ball and defender Dean Beckwith fell over. The keeper got an arm to Duffy's sharp shot but had no chance of keeping it out of his net. Failure to mark Rickie Lambert cost Hereford a second goal minutes later as the striker picked his spot with an accurate bending shot which caught Craig Samson on the wrong side of his goal. The Rovers front pair combined for the third goal, Lambert slipping a short pass for Duffy on his right to lash in a powerful right-foot drive. Between his goals, Duffy had raced passed a hapless defence, only to see his shot bounce off a post. Heads could have gone down, but lifted by Simon Johnson's non-stop running and on-target shots from Ben Smith and Toumani Diagouraga, the Bulls were always threatening to strike back, but simply couldn't live with their mistakes. Their half-time break was cut short for an extra keep-warm spell, but 30 seconds after the restart the game was even more decisively Rovers. Jeff Hughes, a summer signing from Crystal Palace, swept past Hereford's right-back Richard Rose as if he wasn't there to thunder a shot high into the net. Hereford finally realised this was never going to be their day when lively sub Bradley Hudson-Odoi saw a shot blocked on the line by Aaron Lescott and was then denied a goal by a very tight offside decision. Twenty-five-yard free-kicks late on from Lambert and Chris Lines underlined Rovers' superiority, before Steve Guinan knocked in a consolation goal in added-on time.
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