Rovers 1-1 Crewe analysis

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00:00Good evening, Ricky Charles here from the Ecopower after Doncaster's 1-0 draw with

00:05Crewe. Yeah, pretty entertaining match, weren't it? Honours eve, and I think probably the

00:10right result, to be honest. Crewe started really well, I thought they were really impressive,

00:16nice passages of play. Rovers didn't really get going, did they, first half? Having said

00:23that, there wasn't too much for Teddy Sharmellow to do in terms of opportunities, but yeah,

00:28Crewe looked the more livelier, and then the game kind of sparked into life just before

00:31their half-time. Jordan Gibson's free kick, tipped onto the bar and then Billy Sharp bundled

00:36it in, but offside flag quickly raised. But then you're thinking, can they kind of go

00:43for it just after the restart, but it was Crewe who came out of the blocks quicker,

00:46pounced on a mistake from Rovers, and Conway, a really good goal, slalomed through two or

00:53three players, Jay McGrath kind of dived in, and that opened up the space for Conway

00:58to slot it in, to give Crewe the lead. But after that, it was pretty much one-way traffic,

01:03all Rovers, Grant McCann reacted, made a tactical switch, took off Sterry and Fleming and went

01:09Gung-ho, or as Gung-ho as you could ask for. And then he obviously brought on the likes

01:15of Ironside, likes of Sabara, and obviously the goalscorer Kyle Hurst, really good sweeping

01:21attacking move for Hurst to finish off. We spoke to him just briefly post-match and he

01:29was happy with the goal. He's kind of making up for lost time, wasn't he? He wasn't in

01:34the squad at Grimsby last week and then he's come on today and made an impression. If anyone

01:38was going to win it after that, it was Rovers, they came close, Billy Sharp missed a good

01:42chance, Ironside came close, Hurst as well could have got a second. But as I say, probably

01:48a point is a right result. But yeah, just one of those games where, had it gone for

01:54another 10 minutes, it might have been Rovers that pinched the point. But yeah, as I was

01:58saying, Hurst, spoke to him afterwards, wasn't in the squad last week against Grimsby and

02:03then today he's made an immediate impact when he's come on. So I thought he was a really

02:08bright spark today. And it just goes to show the strength and depth that Grant McCann's

02:12got in this squad. There's so many options, there's players that aren't even in the squad,

02:17Efrem Yeboah was on the bench today, didn't get on, so it bodes well. And obviously when

02:21you add in the fact that there's the likes of Nixon, Maxwell, Westbrook, Wood, all to

02:26come back from injury. And obviously we're going to be getting to the period where games

02:29are going to be coming thick and fast, three matches a week. So yeah, I think sitting second,

02:36it bodes well. So yeah, a blank midweek for Rovers, a rare one, before they make the long

02:41trip down to Swindon next Saturday. So yeah, thanks for tuning in, got plenty of stuff

02:46up already. We've got the play ratings, Grant McCann's reaction, and there'll be plenty

02:50going up over the weekend, including obviously the talking points on Sunday morning.