‘Best point in their history’: Rotherham manager offers verdict on Bristol Rovers stalemate
Rotherham United manager Steve Evans has claimed that Bristol Rovers’ goalless draw away at Rotherham United on Saturday was the Gas’ “best point in their history” after the Millers dominated for large spells of the contest.
Rovers started the game the stronger of the two sides with a pleasing flow to their game but any early momentum started to evaporate as Rotherham begun to turn the screw as a home crowd with high expectations this season tried to spur their side on.
Midfielder Christ Tiehi hit the base of the post while Josh Griffiths produced an outstanding double save to deny Sam Nombe from close range before the interval as the Gas managed to keep the score level.
The Millers then squandered another handful of opportunities in the second half while Rovers struggled to get closer than 25-odd yards to the hosts’ goal with the general feeling post-match being that Rotherham were unlucky not to take the three points.
Speaking post-match, Evans declared: “I don’t know how this game has finished 0-0. We missed chance after chance and that’s the difference of winning today. I think we went to Exeter last week and I can take responsibility and say we got it completely wrong but we got it right today.
“This is a good Bristol Rovers side. It’s the best point that they’ll ever get in their history because they hardly got out of their half but when you lay seige to the goal like that you have to punish teams and you have to take the chances.
“We’ve tried every striker at the football club on the pitch today to try and get us the goal but it just wouldn’t happen. They rode their luck as well. They had ricochets and things go hit the crossbar, hit the post, but we’ll take a lot of positives from that and we’ll go again Monday.
“It’s just about us taking our chances,” the Rotherham manager added. “I think anyone who watches the highlights will see it. The Millers support were with us until the 97th minute yesterday because they felt the goal was coming. If they could have sucked it in, they would have sucked it in but it just wasn’t meant to be.”
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