Player Ratings Bristol Rovers vs Bradford City (RESULTS)

Smith 7 Confident display.

Partington 7 scored and did a good job.
Lockyer 8 composed captains performance.
Broadbent 8 Improving every game, a great find by DC.
Bola 7 Decision making questionable but quality with the ball esp going forward.

Lines 7 a good game against good opposition. Took the pen really well under pressure.
O. Clarke 8 great game, showed a real hunger to win the ball.
Sercombe 9 MOTM absolute class, really hurt Bradford when he got into pockets. The touch that tee'd up his goal was pure class.
Sinclair 7 A menace and a constant thorn in Bradford's side.

Gaffney 7 Put in a great shift, his play back to goal is quality.
Harrison 9 What a shift! 2 assists and unplayable at times.

Subs: Nichols 5 no real impact
Mensah 5 some good touches

Crowd 10 stayed with the boys and got rewarded.
Ref 6 funny game pen 50/50 IMO levelled it up with ours.
Bradford 4 Outplayed for most parts apart from 15 mins in first half. Our boys were immense yesterday.

Overall a good display with an 8 all round for our boys except the beard 8.5 but Ellis mom with a 9 and bola 3 if we had i q on from the start we could of torn that right side of Bradford apart but bola always wanted to play sideways or back, DC (I'm not. Fan but yes everything worked yesterday if only we can break quicker and shoot on site he would have a 9 from me but I will settle for a 7
Subs Nichols not even bothering to mark him what a waste of time and money , I q needs more play time

Crowd gas 10
Bradford fans 2 v quiet for their numbers
Ref 8 yes I think he go their penalty right and gave us a free one
Bradford team they were there for the taking yesterday and if we had moved forward faster and shy on site we could have had a hatful

Smith 7 - good attempt at penalty, made one handy save. Would like to see him throw the ball out a bit quicker

Partington 7 - had a tough time against pacy winger, but struck to task well and got the equaliser.
Lockyer 7.5 - very solid game against a big opponent
Broadbent 8 - as per lockyer, but some good runs forwards, looks very composed on the ball
Bola 6.5 - passing a bit wayward but 2nd half really helped going forward and stretched bradford

Lines 7 - good display, calm penalty.
O. Clarke 6.5 - unlucky with penalty, scuffed shot nearly went in, coming back towards form
Sercombe 8 - excellent finish, real driving force with his direct running.
Sinclair 8 - worked his socks off, like him pressing further up the pitch as when win ball puts us on attack.

Gaffney 6.5 - a couple of very poor passes, but runs channels well and good with back to goal still.
Harrison 8 - should have scored at end, put typical workrate throughout, always a handful and played some lovely flicks. His industry played big part in us winning

Subs: Nichols 5 - powderpuff, has technique but looks timid on ball. Lacking in confidence
Mensah 5.5 - struggled to get into game but kept possession ok.

Crowd 9 - great backing, but credit to players 2nd half for prod cuing intensity to get the crowd excited
Ref 6 - penalty controversial but as expected gave us one, so can't be too harsh on him!
Bradford 5 - average, barring left winger had little threat, wyke was nullified which killed their game plan

Smith 7 Did all that was asked of him but still needs to work on his kicking.

Partington 7 did well against a tricky winger and capped it off with a goal
Lockyer 8 back to normal and looks better along side Broadbent.
Broadbent 9 MOM great display got forward and even put in the best cross of the game
Bola 6.5 did ok but needs to track back quicker.

Lines 7.5 put in some good tackles and worked hard
O. Clarke 7.5 unlucky with the pen but did not let it get to him
Sercombe 8 Got better as the game went on and rounded it of with a great goal
Sinclair 7.5 as always ran his socks off

Gaffney 7 good hold up play just his final ball let him down
Harrison 8 ran the whole game can't fault his effort

Subs: Nichols 6 needs to go back to basic's and stop all the flicks !
Mensah 7 need to see more of him !

Crowd 8 good vocal support when thing went against us
Ref 7 one of the better one's got the penalty spot on and even gave us one in return
Bradford 6 if they played football rather than the player thing could have been tough.

Results in and Liam Sercombe was Man of the Match with a score of 8.52.

This was Sercombe's second highest rating in a Rovers shirt after the 8.8 he scored at Northampton.

Marc Bola had the lowest score in the team at 6.63. On only seven previous occasions have the entire starting XI all scored more than this score. The first was the home P/O against FGR (when the lowest score was 6.8), the others were in order:
15/16: Hartlepool-A (6.8), Oxford-A (6.8), Cambridge-H (6.9), Dagenham-H (7.3)
16/17: Oxford-A (6.7)
17/18: Northampton-A(7.2)

Tom Broadbent was runner-up for his third appearance in a row. The only other players to achieve back-to-back-to-back runner-ups are Neal Trotman and Lee Nicholls. Broadbent has been in the top two for 5 of his 16 appearances (31%). The only other players with rates above 30% are Trotman (57%), Burn (33%) and Gaffney (30%).

The starting XI average was 7.46, the third highest of the season after Northampton (A) 8.13 and Southend (H) 7.87.

Smith 6.7

Partington 7.0
Lockyer 7.7
Broadbent 8.4
Bola 6.6

Lines 7.3
O. Clarke 7.3
Sercombe 8.5
Sinclair 7.7

Gaffney 6.7
Harrison 8.2

Subs: Nichols 4.5
Mensah 5.6

Crowd 8.3
Ref 5.7
Bradford 5.5

It was a pen because whether he meant to or not he stopped the balls movement