James Belshaw is hoping Bristol Rovers can take at least one aspect of defending back into their own hands at Bolton Wanderers this evening as he grows increasingly concerned that he’s upset the footballing Gods.
Last Sunday’s FA Cup defeat to Boreham Wood was a performance that the Gas would like to keep locked away and never spoken of again, but it did reveal two annoying trends with how they are conceding goals - one that can be resolved, the other that may require a slightly higher power.
The non-league side's first of the afternoon arrived as a low corner was drilled to the edge of the area before George Broadbent drilled a shot which clipped defender Will Evans and flew past Belshaw. The second was then from a deep cross after a throw-in, which Rovers failed to deal with, and then David Stephens nodded in.
