FA Cup Β· ENG Β· Round 3

Ipswich Town
3 - 0 Full time
Bristol Rovers

Portman Road Β· Ipswich, Suffolk

Lineups

Ipswich Town5-4-1
AM1↓81'Muric
BG44↓73'Godfrey
LW6Woolfenden
CB15Burgess
WB7↓46'Burns
CT22Townsend
JT14βš½β†“73'Taylor
ML25Luongo
KP8⚽Phillips
JC47⚽Clarke
AA16↓73'Al Hamadi
JG1Griffiths
TM4Moore
JW5Wilson
CT17↓86'Taylor
LS3Sousa
RS14↓74'Sawyers
GW8Ward
SF28↓68'Forde
RS10↓74'Sotiriou
SS7Sinclair
CM18↓68'Martin
Bristol Rovers4-2-3-1

Ipswich Town substitutes

18 Ben Johnson 6.5 ↑46'
2 Harry Clarke 6.4 ↑73'
27 George Hirst 6.1 ↑73'
33 Nathan Broadhead 6.2 ↑73'
13 Cieran Slicker ↑81'
26 Dara O'Shea
12 Jens-Lys Cajuste
5 Sam Morsy
19 Liam Delap

Coach: Kieran McKenna Β· Unavailable: Chiedozie Ogbene (injury), Jaden Philogene-Bidace (injury), Sammie Szmodics (injury)

Bristol Rovers substitutes

24 Gatlin O'Donkor 6.3 ↑68'
11 Luke Thomas 6.1 ↑68'
19 Isaac Hutchinson 6.4 ↑74'
29 Jamie Lindsay 6.3 ↑74'
2 Joel Senior ↑86'
39 Quincy Dixon
35 Matt Hall
27 Bryant Bilongo
23 Luke McCormick

Coach: Inigo Calderon

Match events

18'Kalvin Phillips assist: Jack Clarke 1 - 0⚽
24'Jack Clarke 2 - 0⚽
37'Jack Taylor assist: Ali Al Hamadi 3 - 0⚽
Second half
46'↑ Ben Johnson ↓ Wes Burns⇄
68'↑ Luke Thomas ↓ Shaqai Forde⇄
68'↑ Gatlin O'Donkor ↓ Chris Martin⇄
73'↑ Nathan Broadhead ↓ Jack Taylor⇄
73'↑ George Hirst ↓ Ali Al Hamadi⇄
73'↑ Harry Clarke ↓ Ben Godfrey⇄
74'↑ Isaac Hutchinson ↓ Ruel Sotiriou⇄
74'↑ Jamie Lindsay ↓ Romaine Sawyers⇄
81'↑ Cieran Slicker ↓ Arijanet Muric⇄
86'↑ Joel Senior ↓ Connor Taylor⇄

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Sunday, 12 January 2025, 15:00 UTC β€” 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

6Ipswich Town wins1Draws1Bristol Rovers wins

8 past meetings on record. Biggest Ipswich Town win: Ipswich Town 3–0 Bristol Rovers (2020). Biggest Bristol Rovers win: Bristol Rovers 0–2 Ipswich Town (2020).

9 Aug 2023Ipswich Town 2 - 0 Bristol RoversEFL Cup
14 Feb 2023Bristol Rovers 0 - 0 Ipswich TownLeague One
13 Sep 2022Ipswich Town 2 - 0 Bristol RoversLeague One
2 Apr 2021Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Bristol RoversLeague One
19 Sep 2020Bristol Rovers 0 - 2 Ipswich TownLeague One
5 Sep 2020Ipswich Town 3 - 0 Bristol RoversEFL Cup
14 Dec 2019Ipswich Town 1 - 2 Bristol RoversLeague One
14 Aug 2012Ipswich Town 3 - 1 Bristol RoversLeague Cup