Doncaster Rovers v Charlton Athletic Match Preview


by The Rovers Review

Darren Ferguson thinks a win is overdue for his side who are still searching for their first win of 2018.

The Rovers manager thinks he’s sussed out his opposition ahead of what is expected to be a very tight clash against promotion-chasing Charlton,

“You look at the manager [Karl Robinson] and he’s played a certain way in his career – this team is no different. Very fluent, good footballing team and a lot of good dribblers in the team. It will be a good football match, two teams that will try and play, and we’re looking forward to it but certainly in areas of the pitch we’ll have to be good and stop them to cause them problems.

“We’re overdue a win after getting a lot of draws – I think we’ve got the most draws out of any team in the league which shows that we’re always close and there’s always fine margins in games.”

After coming on around the hour-mark in the draw against Portsmouth last weekend, Alex Kiwomya and Luke McCullough are both match-fit and ready to potentially claim a place in the starting 11.

Meanwhile Andy Butler and Joe Wright have begun their training this week, while Mathieu Baudry is scheduled to return to training on Monday morning.

Captain, James Coppinger, is set to earn his 500th EFL cap this weekend which comes after scored in his 14th consecutive season for Rovers last weekend.

Out of Charlton’s 39 goals scored this season, only 15 of them have come away from home while Rovers have scored 21 of their 36 goals this season at the Keepmoat.

As a result, Charlton score and average of 1.15 goals away from home while Rovers score on average 1.40 goals at home.

Earlier on this season, Rovers were denied a point as Tariqe Fosu-Henry’s ninth-minute goal was the only thing to separate both sides.

Charlton’s last visit to Doncaster came in 2014 where Rovers won 3-0 thanks to goals from Abdoulaye Meite, Chris Brown and Mark Duffy.

Overall, Rovers have only won 3 out of 9 games played against Charlton since 1935 in all competitions.

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