AFC WIMBLEDON v BRISTOL ROVERS LEAGUE ONE SATURDAY 21st SEPTEMBER 2019

This is our next home game of the season and disappointing to say we still looking for our first victory of the season after the midweek injury time defeat 2-1 against Coventry City still painful in the memory (their winner was 5 mins into stoppage time). While it is still a long way to go it's a bit of a worry with us having to rely on other teams being worse than us already (Southend, Bolton). So forwards we go and this Saturday we will be hosting Bristol Rovers at Kingsmeadow, with plenty of hope and maybe just maybe that first win is close. Get behind the lads and expecting more goals from the on loan Marcus Forss especially if he can form a partnership with Joe Pigott.

FORM GUIDE 
(Last 6 matches from last season in their respective leagues, starting with most recent)
AFC Wimbledon -- LDLDLL
Bristol Rovers -- DWDLWW

LAST TIME OUT
Coventry City 2 - 1 AFC Wimbledon
Bristol Rovers 1 - 1 Gillingham

While we were getting beat 2-1 by Coventry in Birmingham on Tuesday night, Bristol Rovers were grinding out a 1-1 draw at home against Gillingham. This result places Rovers currently in 12th position comfortably mid table on 12 points and will be looking upwards towards the playoff places if they can gain a victory at Kingsmeadow today. Tyler Smith on loan from Sheffield United scored during mid week his first in four appearances for the 'Gas', and his strike partner Jonson Clarke-Harris has five goals in seven so far this season.

Line Ups (Confirmed);

AFC WIMBLEDON

Odds -- 2/1 (William Hill) 

Trott (GK),  Thomas,  Delaney,  Nightingale (c),  O'Neill,  Wagstaff,  Hartigan,  Reilly,  Guinness-Walker, ⚽   Forss,   Folivi

Subs – Tzanev (GK),  Roscrow,  Osew,  Appiah,  Pigott,  Wordsworth,  Sanders

BRISTOL ROVERS
Odds --  6/4 (William Hill) 

Jaakkola (GK),  Davies,  ⚽Craig,  Kilgour,  Rodman,  Sercombe,  Upson,  ⚽Ogogo,  Leahy,  Nichols, ⚽Clarke-Harris 

Subs – Van Stappershoef (Gk),  Smith,  Kelly,  Menayese,  Bennett,  Hargreaves,  Adeboyejo

  

Selected Bets on today's match;

First Goalscorer - 

Tyler Smith (@13/2) or Marcus Forss (@11/2) YES!!

Penalty Award and Scored  @4/1

⚽H/T Score – 1 - 1 [Forss 20']   [Ogogo 29']

First Half Comment;

Bristol kick us off and we underway under bright sunshine at Kingsmeadow, and the Dons start on the front foot attacking well and winning the opening corner and the first shot on target too (small victories). And it happens, Marcus Forss scores again and in doing so secures us the 1st goalscorer bet too, he's also booked for the celebration too which is a shame but good to see a player inform and happy to show it off. A great shot from outside the box, nestles in the top corner and we are 1-0 to the good, suspect we need another but it's a decent start from us. Typically it was time for Rovers to put they foot down and didn't take them too long to equalise when Abu Agogo buries a header from a cross by Tom Nichols and we are all square again. Managed to hang on till half time but with Southend and winning we really do need this first win so look forward to the second half.

⚽F/T Score – 1 - 3

Match Summary;
A game that saw Marcus Forss score then get sent off in the second half, will miss him, then we collapsed to a 1-3 loss, all headers and it's looking dire already and we still only in September. Am really lost for words now and bit fed up with the same old excuses from the management team, so will just leave it here and move on.   

My Man of the Match – Michael Folivi.

Referee -- Our referee today will be MR NICHOLAS KINSELEY from Essex, who took charge of our 1-0 win at Gillingham last season so a repeat of that would be nice. Averages about three cards a game, not many reds so lets get stuck in lads. Will be ably assisted by Christopher Kidd and Alasdair Ross.

Attendance – 4,268.  

Next match:
Saturday 28th September vs Peterborough United (Away)
League One 3:00pm