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Preston North End 1 Hughes Doncaster Rovers 3 Marquis, Anderson, Wilks
PNE line-up: Crowe, Fisher, Hughes, Ledson (Barker, 60), Storey, Huntington, Barkhuizen, Johnson, Nmecha (Maguire, 73), Burke (Browne, 46), Gallagher ©. Subs not used: Rudd, Earl, Clarke, Woods, Maguire.

Doncaster Rovers line-up: Lawlor, Andrew, Butler ©, Wilks, Whiteman, Marquis, Crawford (Rowe, 85), Anderson, Kane, Blair, May (Coppinger, 64). Subs not used: Marosi, Rowe, Sadlier, Horten, Greaves, Lewis.

Attendance: 8,101 (1,308 Doncaster fans)

Referee: Mr A Davies

This is about as it got for us today, it's the kick off

Firstly well done Doncaster wanted it more than us played better football amnd thoroughly deserved to go through, this was poor by us to say the least only positives four back from injury on the bench and three new signings to come in for next Saturday's game against Swansea.
We started off brightly but with their first attack Donny went down the right hand side ball to the back post Marquis header 0-1. They could have had a second Marquis header from a corner was cleared of the line by Burke. Donny closed us down, when they had possession made us work hard to get it back,. Build up wise we were ponderous and only tested the keeper once when Hughes blasted an effort towards goal straight at Lawlor. We got back into it towards half time when Hughes was unlucky and hit the post from outside the box.
Deservedly losing at half time could have been two almost after the restart Storey's back pass was short Wilks nipped in took it round Crowe and missed.
It was soon to cost Rovers from a corner Gallagher's put it to the back post Hughes headed home, dominated for a brief period both Fisher and Johnson denied by Lawlor after Gallagher had played Fisher in with a stunning cross ball.
Coppinger cam on for Rovers and gave them fresh impetus, he fired narrowly wide from 25 yards, but they were not to be denied for long, some epicly bad defending led to Anderson bundling the ball over the line, has to be said Crowe didn't cover himself in glory with that one, was to get worse for him.
Browne should have equalised headed wide from close range after great work down the left by Barker and Hughes.
Then we fell apart Fisher who may have been lucky not to have been sent off for appearing to punch Wilks in the first half went in for a tackle missed the ball and player, two on one against the keeper the defender was bailed out by a brilliant last ditch tackle by Storey.
Were not reprieved for long ball over the top both Huntington and Storey went to shepherd the ball back to Crowe who managed to miss it Wilks didn't miss this time.
Game over

Preston manager Alex Neil:

"I think during my time here, off the top of my head there have been five or six games where I have felt it has been unacceptable in terms of performance, and that was one of them.

"What I will say is that's pretty much the same team who have churned out so many games recently, but I don't want to make excuses, I will take full responsibility for today's performance and result.

"We need to get back to trying to play as well as we can and picking up wins because we haven't been getting the results.

"Everyone knows that goals change games. The second goal was a disappointing one to concede, and the third goal is a comedy of errors really and that finishes the game."

Doncaster boss Grant McCann:

"I thought we were outstanding today. I'm particularly proud of the response after we conceded.

"We stayed mentally strong and re-established control. From that goal we were again the better team and the team who looked most likely to win.

"I told the players before the game to go and show that they can compete at this level and I think they've done that.

"It is a great feeling to be in the fourth round, it has been a long time since the club got so far. We are all excited to see who we will get drawn against."