Rochdale 3-1 Accrington Stanley: result and report
League Two · Saturday 3 January 2009
Result
Rochdale 3-1 Accrington Stanley
League Two · Saturday 3 January 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Rochdale 3-1 Accrington Stanley: match report
Rochdale defeated Accrington Stanley 3-1 in the League Two on Saturday 3 January 2009. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Adam Le Fondre opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Rochdale's goals came from Adam Le Fondre (22', penalty), Will Buckley (56') and K. Higginbotham (87'). Accrington Stanley scored through Peter Cavanagh (24').
Discipline: Rochdale received 2 yellow cards; Accrington Stanley received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Rochdale were 11th on 32 points from 21 and Accrington Stanley 21st on 21 points from 21. Rochdale went on to finish that season 9th with 68 points, and Accrington Stanley 18th with 49.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Rochdale wins, 1 draw and 0 for Accrington Stanley.
Going into the match Rochdale's last five read L-W-L-D-D and Accrington Stanley's W-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 22'Penalty goal · Adam Le Fondre
- 24'Yellow card · Rory McArdle
- 24'Goal · Peter Cavanagh
- 39'Yellow card · Lee McEvilly
- 44'Yellow card · Andrew Procter
- 56'Goal · Will Buckley
- 59'Yellow card · K. Charnock
- 87'Goal · K. Higginbotham