FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Doncaster Rovers
1 - 2 Full time
Stoke City

Keepmoat Stadium

Lineups

Doncaster Rovers5-3-2
TS12Stuckmann
CA38Alcock
LM4McCullough
AB6Butler
AT20↓76'Taylor-Sinclair
CE3Evina
HM29↓89'Middleton
PK18↓77'Keegan
CG22Grant
NT14⚽Tyson
AW11Williams
JH29Haugaard
PB2↓61'Bardsley
RS17Shawcross
PW26Wollscheid
MW12Wilson
JW19⚽Walters
MV15van Ginkel
CA16↓87'Adam
MB18Diouf
J11Joselu
PC25⚽↓66'Crouch
Stoke City4-4-1-1

Doncaster Rovers substitutes

9 Curtis Main ↑76'
8 Richard Chaplow ↑77'
17 Gary MacKenzie ↑89'
32 Billy Whitehouse
23 Marko Marosi
34 Matthew Davies
2 Mitchell Lund

Coach: Darren Ferguson

Stoke City substitutes

8 Glen Johnson ↑61'
6 Glenn Whelan ↑66'
21 Steve Sidwell ↑87'
23 Dionatan Teixeira
1 Jack Butland
34 Oliver Shenton
9 Peter Odemwingie

Coach: Mark Hughes

Match events

15'Peter Crouch assist: Joselu 0 - 1⚽
25'Nathan Tyson 1 - 1⚽
31'Philipp Wollscheid
32'Nathan Tyson
39'Marco van Ginkel
Second half
57'Jonathan Walters 1 - 2⚽
61'↑ Glen Johnson ↓ Phil Bardsley⇄
62'Jonathan Walters
66'↑ Glenn Whelan ↓ Peter Crouch⇄
76'↑ Curtis Main ↓ Aaron Taylor-Sinclair⇄
77'↑ Richard Chaplow ↓ Paul Keegan⇄
84'Conor Grant
87'↑ Steve Sidwell ↓ Charlie Adam⇄
89'↑ Gary MacKenzie ↓ Harry Middleton⇄

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 9 January 2016, 15:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

0Doncaster Rovers wins0Draws1Stoke City wins

1 past meetings on record. Biggest Doncaster Rovers win: Stoke City 2–0 Doncaster Rovers (2021).

24 Aug 2021Stoke City 2 - 0 Doncaster RoversEFL Cup