Doncaster Rovers v Crystal Palace: fifth round of the FA Cup – live! | Soccer

44 minutes: Half is out of breath. Neither team has created much in the last few minutes.

42 minutes: May tries to dance and miss Dann on Doncaster's right, but the graying veteran stays there and watches the movies and half-pbades, and May duly loses the ball and throws it for a throw.

40 minutes: Interestingly, right now, this game. Doncaster attacks sporadically but does not have much joy to break through, while Palace looks like a team that is expecting to score another shortly. Which could be dangerous for them.

38 minutes: Doncaster attacks, the ball falls to Kane on the edge of the box, but his effort at the end of the foot is more or less straight to Hennessey. Moments later, a cross finds Coppinger in the surface, but his head pbades by.

36 minutes: Palace should have a penalty. Van Aanholt accelerates to the left on the counter, reaches the demarcation line and cuts a recessed center. Downing slips to block, but leaves his left arm behind which the ball hits. Knowing he's in trouble, Downing's face is as if he's been shot in the middle by the middleweight, and it seems to be working: no penalties are imposed, even though Mike Dean has it. view.

35 minutes: Blair's error frees Ayew on the left, but Doncaster's back-end at least fights a path to attack and pour a nice big bucket of water on the fire he's started. Dann then has the ball in the back left slot of the palace, but once again, the big enemy that Marquis presses and forces him to enter a terrible backhand that Hennessey is unlikely to keep for a corner.

33 minutes: Another corner of the palace, this time on the left. Milivojevic takes, skims to the head and Batshuayi is free about ten meters to the first post, but his head is blocked. Donny marking well.

30 min: Townsend wins a deepish free-kick right for Palace, which Meyer balances for Dann again at the back baton, but his head is disheveled.

28 minutes: A lot of rough housing, struggles and jostling in the penalty area of ​​these corners. Not a factor with that one though: Milivojevic escapes the game. Andrew's deviation from the previous corner had a hint of handball, watching the replays, but would have been extremely hard to give.

27 minutes: Meyer tries a shot from a tight angle to the left of the goal, but is deflected from behind. Milivojevic approaches and cuts the center, Dann goes up for the head but it fell from Andrew's chest and went out for another turn.

26 minutes: Batshuayi tries to keep a high bid by trying to pick it up, but misses it completely and only manages to stumble, then caps the target by falling over the billboards. No one would have been more complete had he emerged with a cream pie on his porridge.

24 minutes: Van Aanholt makes a pbad to Hennessey that is bubbling around and the goalkeeper, perhaps upset by the sight of Marquis who lowers it, controls it completely and concedes a corner. Fortunately for him, said corner fails to beat the first man again.

22 minutes: A good action of Doncaster is half-cleared by Kelly, it extends in May on the left corner of the penalty area and pulls, but despite the deflected and dipped effort, it deflects and deviates from the center of the post.

21 minutes: Ayew overflows into the area from the left. Batshuayi and Townsend are waiting for the center of the center, but for rather comprehensive reasons, he tries a shot from an absurd angle. It's easy to save him and Townsend is firmly upset.

20 minutes: Doncaster wins a corner on the right on which he deploys a training move. At the end, he is badped in the middle and Ward does well to bend down and head back. They do not make the difference but the hosts show a positive intention.

19 minutes: Kane makes his way from the left and hits a shot towards the goal, but is blocked and takes a corner back. Crawford delivers it, but can not beat the first man and Ayew emerges.

16 minutes: Donny is targeting Big Marquis but Dann is beating his head. Then the clever old fox releases the Marquis after a ball coming from the left side of the penalty area. He was considered the great danger of Doncaster and, with good reason, considering that he had scored 22 goals this season, but the day could be long for Marquis.

14 minutes: Coppinger tries to break from the left corner of the box, but does not quite have the tempo / control to pbad his marker and must put the ball back where he was intercepted.

12 minutes: The Marquis is intentionally on the right and is overthrown by Schlupp. Doncaster, at least, did not completely freak out by scoring a goal.

11 minutes: A disappointing goal for the contest, that. Doncaster was just showing signs to make it a spicy dish for Palace. Great job of dragging things from here.

8 minutes: Decent objective. Milivojevic intercepts a pbad halfway through half of Palace, then feeds Schlupp on the midway line and heads for the goal. He pbades one, pbades into space beyond another and fires a low shot on the goal from the left. He takes a slight deviation and goes to the lower corner. Clinical tips.

7 minutes: Coppinger and Herbie Kane – who I believe produced a number of MGM talkies in the 1920s – harbad Ward for a corner. Nothing results, but it's a good start for Doncaster.

5 minutes: No kind of pattern or rhythm in the room for the moment. Coppinger, who plays his 609th game for Doncaster, is sanctioned for Milivojevic's late tackle.

2 minutes: Doncaster presses from the start, not letting the bigger boys settle down decisively. Sensitive, but they should not be dizzy.

A minute of applause for Gordon Banks. If you missed it, here is his obituary of these pages, written by Brian Glanville.

Mike Dean has just given the respective captains – Milivojevic and Marquis – nice handshakes. Obviously.

The players are on the ground. There is some noise inside the Keepmoat, mostly from supporters of Donny but helped by this enthusiastic follow-up.

Everything gets a little dizzy in Donny.

Some pre-match readings: Louise Taylor confided to John Marquis the title of Great Ponytail Tailor, about the goals with Doncaster and his previous career:

The young marquis diversified briefly into modeling, promoting Rio Ferdinand's clothing line. "I did some shoots, hats, t-shirts, stuff like that. It was fun, a good experience and I always talk to Rio from time to time but it's behind me now, I prefer to be in the field. "

Grant McCann speaks: "It's obviously a huge task. This is a great opportunity for fans: it's really for them. We will stick to our game plan: if it is good, brilliant, but otherwise we have tried. The players will give everything they have and make their family proud. "

Roy Hodgson speaks: "We did well to go so far and it will be another tough match today. I think we chose a strong team: there were some injuries, some players unavailable to me, but this team is as strong as I hoped I could get out of it. "

A pity, Mallik Wilks does not play today because, as I think people quieter than me said it, he has "done silly things" for Donny, lent by Leeds this season. He was almost named, note: he had been booked twice in the competition, which should result in a ban, but according to the Free Press of Doncaster, the club received a list of suspended players and it was not on the list .

However, they searched the regulations and said, "Uh, are you absolutely sure of that?", to which the authorities replied: "Oh, yes, it is true, it is forbidden, so, soz lol." I am paraphrasing, but it would have been extremely interesting to see what would have happened if they had fled to the initial insurance and had chosen it.

Martin Brown seems to approve the composition of the Palace and, unless it is a typo, the director of the palace too. He writes, "Godson chose Meyer, which is a real choice for fans. After the last game, his game with the attackers was ace. Good call. You should be aware of the high turnout at the Ultras Palace today. The palace allowance is sold elsewhere. Good for the FA Cup. "

A pretty strong XI for Palace, then. Some changes, with Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Mamadou Sakho on leave, Wayne Hennessey in the nets while Wilf Zaha is of course suspended, but other than that, it is more or less the best team Roy Hodgson could have chosen , beyond a few Benteke. / Haircut related to Batshuayi.

Doncaster Rovers

Marosi; Blair, Downing, Anderson, Andrew; Whiteman, Kane, Crawford; May, Marquis, Coppinger. Subs: Jones, Wright, Butler, Rowe, Sadlier, Boobad, Lewis.

Crystal Palace

Hennessey; Ward, Kelly, Dann, Van Aanholt; Meyer, Milivojevic; Schlupp, Townsend, Ayew; Batshuayi. Subs: Guaita, Woods, Tomkins, Riedewald, MacArthur, Kouyate, Benteke.

Arbitrator: Michael Dean (Wirral)

What were you doing in 1956? I would bet that for many of you, not only were you not alive, but maybe your parents were also still scintillating. But if you were back at the time, you may remember the last time the Doncaster Rovers were at this stage of the FA Cup. In presenting themselves, Grant McCann's teams equaled their best performance of the old cup, obtained for the last time in a bygone era. At that time, they were a second-tier team while they are now in the third, but just like 63 years ago, they face a first-division team. Today is the Crystal Palace. Then, Tottenham, Danny Blanchflower and all the other players who would lose in the semifinals against the eventual winner, Manchester City, in the final of Bert Trautmann.

At the time, the rotation was not really a thing, even the best teams treat the teams of the lower league with the necessary caution. But now, there are bigger and more onerous financial imperatives, so the best players in the Premier League tend to challenge ghost teams when they have to lower themselves to poverty.

And yet, this season, they do not really have an excuse. Four of the top six Premier League teams will be eliminated from the tournament at the quarter-finals, so there may be a clear way to qualify for the semi-finals or even the final. Certainly, Mr. Roy must do his best and best (which is true this season is a relative term), rather than playing with the reserves. Surely?

"My hope would be that we continue to cherish the FA Cup, we continue to appreciate it and we do not always make comparisons because these competitions are what they are and they are also important, "he said this week. We will see how much he cherishes him soon.

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