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It's match day!
Argyle 92,700 Twitter followers v Bristol Rovers 82,000 Twitter followers.
The Pilgrims v The Pirates.
Premier League referee Roger East is the man in the middle for today's game. So far this season he has issued 78 yellow cards and no red cards in 21 games, seven of those games were in the Premier League.
Midfielder David Fox talks to the club website about the game .....
Armed police and police dogs will be present at Home Park today.
Team line-up v Bristol Rovers; Macey, Riley, Edwards, Canavan, Sawyer, Fox, Songo'o, Sarcevic, Ness, Lameiras, Ladapo.
Subs: Letheren, Smith-Brown, Jones, Threlkeld, Anderson, Taylor, Fletcher.
Argyle 2 - 2 Bristol Rovers
Lameiras 51. Clarke-Harris 72.
Craig 75 (og). Reilly 91.
Attendance 12,003.
Match stats: Possession 49%/51%. Shots 13/14. On target 4/5. Corners 8/9. Fouls 8/7.
A post-match video interview with Graham Coughlan
Video highlights of the Bristol Rovers game
Midfielder Jamie Ness talks about to the club website about the Rovers game ....
Bristol Rovers fans' forum
Derek Adams talks to the club website about the game. ..
It's match day!
Argyle 92,700 Twitter followers v Bristol Rovers 82,000 Twitter followers.
The Pilgrims v The Pirates.
Premier League referee Roger East is the man in the middle for today's game. So far this season he has issued 78 yellow cards and no red cards in 21 games, seven of those games were in the Premier League.
Midfielder David Fox talks to the club website about the game .....
âThe game last year was really good, great atmosphere. Theyâll bring a lot and weâll have a good atmosphere, as we always do. It was an enjoyable game last year and, hopefully, itâs the same again.
âOur home form has been really good. I think that weâve given the fans something to cheer about recently, and theyâve certainly backed us in that aspect. The game last year was really good, great atmosphere, it was a real good one to play in and a great result in the end. I think that today will be no different, itâs important that we start well and get the crowd on-side as we have done in the last couple of months.
"Theyâre on a good run of form away from home, and we feel like we can give anyone a game at home. It will be a real good occasion, add into the mix the manager, and what he did for the club as a player â itâs got all the ingredients for a real good game, and we know weâve got to perform well to get anything out of it.â
Armed police and police dogs will be present at Home Park today.
Team line-up v Bristol Rovers; Macey, Riley, Edwards, Canavan, Sawyer, Fox, Songo'o, Sarcevic, Ness, Lameiras, Ladapo.
Subs: Letheren, Smith-Brown, Jones, Threlkeld, Anderson, Taylor, Fletcher.
Argyle 2 - 2 Bristol Rovers
Lameiras 51. Clarke-Harris 72.
Craig 75 (og). Reilly 91.
Attendance 12,003.
Match stats: Possession 49%/51%. Shots 13/14. On target 4/5. Corners 8/9. Fouls 8/7.
A post-match video interview with Graham Coughlan
Video highlights of the Bristol Rovers game
Midfielder Jamie Ness talks about to the club website about the Rovers game ....
âObviously weâre all a bit deflated. We felt we shouldâve got the win, to concede late on like that feels a bit like a loss. Weâll regroup, weâll go again, weâve got another big game at Blackpool next week, so preparation starts now for that.
âItâs gutting, really, to work so hard and defend so well for the majority of the game. I donât think they had that many chances at all, Mace made a great save towards the end of the first-half, and obviously the lad put one in from thirty yards, but apart from that we never really looked tested. It was disappointing to lose what we thought was a soft goal at the end.
âItâs a great strike, but I thought we reacted really well once that goal went in. We got back on the front foot again, and obviously got a bit of luck with the own goal, but I thought we had started to build the pressure a little bit. At 2-1, we thought we had done enough, but obviously that wasnât the case.
âI know weâre four points from the bottom four, so technically itâs a point gained, but it doesnât feel like that at the moment.
âWeâre just trying to put as much distance between ourselves and the bottom as possible, and start to cement our place in the top-half, hopefully. Weâve got an opportunity to do that at Blackpool next week, theyâre going well, itâll be a difficult game, but itâs one that weâll be up for.â
Bristol Rovers fans' forum
Derek Adams talks to the club website about the game. ..
"It feels like a loss because we were up with injury-time to play.
âWe obviously outwitted them at the start of the game the game with the formation that we played and took control of the match from that by getting our full-backs on the ball.
âWe dominated their centre-forwards, in Tom Nichols and Clarke-Harris, and that allowed us to get on the ball and move it, and Lameiras and Freddie Ladapo to play further forward.
âIt was a very good performance at home for us. We should be sitting here with three points. I knew we would score. I said to everyone before the game that we would score â we scored two goals; I said we would score off a set-play â and we scored off a set-play â because we know that they are weak, defensively, from set-plays.
âI didnât see them scoring the way they did from Clarke-Harris, which was an unbelievable strike and we should have made a tackle before that, and we could have done better in the first half with the opportunities inside the 18âyard box, but we didnât.
"I didn't see them scoring. I didnât see how they were going to score. We were dealing well with them through the middle of the pitch and, if it was going to be something, it was going to be from a cross, and thatâs what happened.
âYou get to that stage of the game when you arenât really allowing Bristol Rovers to see sight of your goal, and they put one ball into the box â there were a lot of players inside the box â and Reillyâs been able to get a flick on it into the bottom corner.
âWe probably went too deep, just in the last minutes of the game, or we didnât clear our lines properly. If we had done that, we would have seen out the game. Reilly is always on the front foot and gets himself into these positions.
âIt was a good spectacle; 2-2; goals were scored again at home. Over the piece, we are happy with the performance.
âWe are performing well and creating opportunities. We were the team that was in ascendancy in the first half; when we went back to winning 2-1, Bristol Rovers pushed back against us.
âWeâve added to our points total today; weâve taken our unbeaten run at home to eight games; and we feel that itâs another point gained.â