Southend United 3-1 Bristol Rovers: result and report
League One · Saturday 7 March 2020
Result
Southend United 3-1 Bristol Rovers
League One · Saturday 7 March 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Southend United 3-1 Bristol Rovers: match report
Southend United won against Bristol Rovers 3-1 in the League One on Saturday 7 March 2020. The half-time score was 1-0.
Charlie Kelman opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Southend United's goals came from Charlie Kelman (18'), Terrell Egbri (55') and an own goal by Alfie Kilgour (79'). Bristol Rovers scored through J. Mitchell-Lawson (46').
Discipline: Southend United received 1 yellow card; Bristol Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southend United were 23rd on 16 points from 34 and Bristol Rovers 14th on 42 points from 33. Southend United went on to finish that season 23rd with 19 points, and Bristol Rovers 14th with 45.
Southend United lined up in a 4-5-1 and Bristol Rovers in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Shaughnessy of Southend United (8.0), ahead of Jayden Mitchell-Lawson (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Southend United wins, 0 draws and 1 for Bristol Rovers.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Charlie Kelman
- 46'Goal · J. Mitchell-Lawson
- 55'Goal · Terrell Egbri
- 64'Yellow card · E. Upson
- 70'Yellow card · Jason Dimitriou
- 79'Own goal · Alfie Kilgour
- 86'Yellow card · Cian Harries
Head-to-head
Team news
Southend United line-up (4-5-1)
Patrik Gunnarsson, Miles Mitchell-Nelson, Elvis Bwomono, Joe Shaughnessy, Tom Clifford, Terrell Egbri, Eren Kinali, Jason Demetriou, Lewis Gard, Stephen McLaughlin, Charlie Kelman
Bristol Rovers line-up (3-5-2)
Pavel Kucera, Alfie Kilgour, Tony Craig, Cian Harries, Josh Hare, Liam Sercombe, Edward Upson, Ollie Clarke, Luke Leahy, James Daly, Jayden Mitchell-Lawson