MATT'S MEN JUST HAVE ENOUGH GAS

HONEST Bristol Rovers boss Matt Taylor has acknowledged his side were pushed all the way in their tie against Weston-super-Mare.

- Gregor MacGregor

The Gas needed extra time to get past stubborn opposition from three tiers below, as the Seagulls showed why they are top of the National League South and had not lost for 16 matches prior to this game.

“First of all, we’ve got to give credit to the opposition,” Taylor said. “Not just in terms of the way the game went to extra-time, but the way they played, the way they pushed us back at certain moments and the way they kept on fighting.

“They had a constant platform at the top end of the pitch with their physicality.

“I think that’s a fair assessment of a way to get up the pitch and get us on the back foot, and then the other real times the pitch was opened up, it was probably from our mistakes and our own undoing.”