Bristol Rovers 4-3 Southend United: result and report
League One · Saturday 27 March 2010
Result
Bristol Rovers 4-3 Southend United
League One · Saturday 27 March 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-2
Bristol Rovers 4-3 Southend United: match report
Bristol Rovers beat Southend United 4-3 in the League One on Saturday 27 March 2010. It was 2-2 at half-time.
S. Vernon opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Bristol Rovers's goals came from Jo Kuffour (34'), J. Hughes (38', penalty), J. Hughes (52') and an own goal by Anthony Grant (90'). Southend United scored through S. Vernon (5', penalty), Scott Spencer (12') and S. Vernon (57').
Discipline: Bristol Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Southend United received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Bristol Rovers were 10th on 55 points from 37 and Southend United 21st on 37 points from 37. Bristol Rovers went on to finish that season 11th with 62 points, and Southend United 23rd with 43.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Bristol Rovers wins, 1 draw and 2 for Southend United.
Going into the match Bristol Rovers's last five read W-L-D-W-W and Southend United's W-D-D-L-L.
Key events
- 5'Penalty goal · S. Vernon
- 12'Goal · Scott Spencer
- 34'Goal · Jo Kuffour
- 37'Yellow card · A. McCormack
- 38'Penalty goal · J. Hughes
- 52'Goal · J. Hughes
- 57'Goal · S. Vernon
- 65'Red card · Franck Moussa
- 65'Yellow card · Byron Anthony
- 70'Yellow card · Anthony Grant
- 82'Yellow card · C. Lines
- 90'Own goal · Anthony Grant