Bristol Rovers frustrated but kept themselves in it, despite taking one point from six last week. A shock loss was followed by a decent draw, but ultimately two golden opportunities were missed.
Oldham on a Tuesday night is hardly the trip of dreams, but it was one we expected to bear more fruit than it did. Joey Barton warned that teams at the bottom of the footballing pyramid are the toughest to face given they’re fighting for their lives. He wasn’t wrong, but Rovers played into Oldham’s hands.
The Latics scoring almost as soon as we’d kicked off was a real kick in the teeth. Not least for those who had travelled almost 200 miles, only for their team to hand the opposition the advantage right from the off. We should have expected the early aggression and fight that we saw from the hosts, but instead we resembled a rabbit in headlights.
