Huddersfield Town 1, Doncaster Rovers 2

Oct 18 2006 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

How They Rated:

Matt Glennon Went off suffering a dead-leg following a collision with scorer Price. Hadn't made a save up to that point Rating: 5/10

Aaron Hardy Making his first senior start at the Galpharm and impressed with his steady approach, good passing and willingness to overlap Rating: 7/10

Danny Adams Saw quite a lot of the ball in the second half and linked reasonably on his return from a one-match suspension. Rating: 5/10

John McCombe Did well at the heart of the defence in only his second start since last year's exit at Boston. Solid performance. Rating: 6/10

Nathan Clarke Failed to heed a clear warning sign and gave the ball away a second time for Doncaster to break and get a winner. Rating: 4/10

Adnan Ahmed Back for the first time since surgery to a broken metatarsal and struggled to make an impact at times Rating: 5/10

Jon Worthington Tried his best to spark the team with strong running in the centre and plenty of tackles but the effort was in vain Rating: 6/10

Chris Brandon One or two very nice touches in his first start since August 12. Worked hard but never really got a sniff of a chance Rating: 5/10

Danny Schofield Had an early shot from a neat move blocked wide. Some promising attacks but faded out of the game late on Rating: 5/10

Andy Booth Scored the 127th Town goal of his career to go ahead of Billy Smith at third in the all-time list. Worked hard all game Rating: 6/10

Pawel Abbott Some clever touches and put himself about superbly second half, forcing the error which led to Booth's goal Rating: 6/10

Turning Point:

The first-round tie looked to be heading straight to a penalty shoot-out with only three minutes left when Nathan Clarke had a pass intercepted by Jason Price and his through ball was tucked away for the winner by Lewis Guy.

It was a killer mistake, especially after Town's No6 had got away with a similar error only three minutes earlier.

Spotlight on the Ref:

Nottingham official Russell Booth let play flow as much as he could and did well to restrict the yellow cards to just two as many players on both sides misjudged challenges on the greasy surface.

The bookings for Pawel Abbott (Town) and Doncaster's Anthony Griffith were fair enough and at least he kept up with play well to be on the spot for decisions

Doncaster Rovers: Filan; Lee, Roberts, Lockwood; Thornton, Griffith (Roberts 90), Heffernan, McDaid; Guy, Streete (Green P 90), Price.

Subs not used: Di Piedi, Green (L), Smith.

Bookings: Griffith.