They won’t be pleased with the goals given up, but there was one outstanding stop and some good game reading. Hopefully, I’ll enjoy my first camp with the England U20s.
There’s a lot that can be said on the back of Bristol Rovers’ heaviest defeat of the season but, frankly, most of it has been said far too often all season. Saturday’s 5-0 loss at Lincoln City highlighted the issues on and off the pitch that the Gas currently face with the overriding factor being that everything just points towards the prospect of a hectic summer.
Lincoln were excellent, that has to be said, and came into the game on absolutely rampant form. It was evident why they’ve had such success since the turn of the year under Michael Skubala with a packed home crowd making a racket and the players in red-and-white playing with a level of intensity that was at least one gear above anything Rovers have reached in 2024 so far. However, Matt Taylor and co. knew exactly what was coming which makes the performance and result particularly damning because, despite being well aware of what to expect, they still couldn’t come close to containing the Imps.
It does also have to be said that the Gas had chances and good ones at that with Chris Martin being denied by a decent Lukas Jensen save at 1-0 a real pivotal moment. If the ball had found its way into the net instead of stinging the palms of the Lincoln goalkeeper, who was impressive, then who knows what sort of discussion we would be having post-match.
However, it is getting tedious now having to say the same thing, even more so for Taylor and his players. ‘Constant theme’ is a phrase that continuously gets thrown around by the Rovers manager and that theme remains to be in effect with Rovers still finding it impossible to string any sort of consistency together.
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