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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: The Memorial Stadium
  • Attendance: 6991
  • Referee: Haywood, M

Live Commentary

90 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

90 mins

Goal!! Lewis Haldane scores for Bristol Rovers.

90 mins

Lewis Haldane goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

90 mins

Adebayo Akinfenwa goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

86 mins

Millwall are replacing Ahmet Brkovic with Adebayo Akinfenwa.

78 mins

Rickie Lambert takes a penalty for Bristol Rovers and scores!.

63 mins

Sam Igoe is replaced by David Pipe.

60 mins

Bristol Rovers are replacing Sean Rigg with Andy Williams.

46 mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 1.

45 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

19 mins

Gary Alexander goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

8 mins

Goal!! Ali Fuseini scores for Millwall.

6 mins

Millwall are replacing Alan Dunne with Ali Fuseini.

0 mins

The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.

Match Report

An injury-time header from Lewis Haldane brought Bristol Rovers an unlikely looking first home win of the season.

After dropping behind early on they had looked well out of it with a disjointed display.

This all changed for them with a hotly disputed penalty in the 77th minute when young sub Andy Williams went down.

Rickie Lambert slammed in the spot-kick and then well into the four minutes of added on time provided the high cross from the right which Haldane rose to power home.

Until the late revival Kenny Jackett was heading for a perfect start to his latest job as Millwall Manager - two wins from two starts. In the FA Cup a week ago the Lions had to come from behind, but here they were in front after just eight minutes.

The goal was driven in by substitute Ali Fuseini who had taken over from Alan Dunne, who had to go off with a muscle strain.

Losing his top scorer was the worst possible start for Jackett. With a dozen players already injured he fielded a full complement of five borrowed players.

But in a one-sided first half they were always the better unit than a Rovers side short of confidence.

The Millwall goal summed up this perfectly. A misplaced pass by Sammy Igoe deep in the visitors' half launched a Millwall counter-attack.

A bad clearance by Danny Coles then gave the ball to Fuseini. Finally in Rovers' goal Steve Phillips thought the shot was going wide of his right-hand post.

Before the game Phillips had been given an award for his 28 clean sheets last season.

He has yet to keep one at home this time around, but made an important save from Ahmet Brkovic early in the second half to keep his side in the game.

Bristol Rovers Team

Millwall Team

Bristol Rovers

Millwall

Corners

8 2

Fouls

8 17

Goal attempts

9 6

Shots off target

3 4

Offsides

2 3

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