{"id":403270,"date":"2025-09-06T18:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403270\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:17:15","slug":"doncaster-rovers-3-1-bradford-city-bantams-fall-to-first-league-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403270\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Bradford City: Bantams fall to first league defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Luke Molyneux, Jordan Gibson and Billy Sharp scored as Doncaster inflicted a first defeat of the League One season on Bradford City.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All four goals came in an action-packed first half with Rovers soaking up pressure from the visitors superbly in the second half to continue their own impressive start to the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Molyneux raced onto a brilliant cross from Gibson to head Rovers in front on six minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford found the equaliser on 12 minutes when Will Swan pounced to poke home from close range after Bobby Pointon&#8217;s cross squirmed under Rovers keeper Thimothee Lo-Tutala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Doncaster were back in front on 22 minutes when Gibson nicked the ball away from Joe Wright and slotted home past Sam Walker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rovers had daylight on 44 minutes when Sharp was released into the box by James Maxwell and showed trademark composure to finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford pushed hard for a way back into the game in the second half but struggled for openings against resolute Doncaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report supplied by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Molyneux, Jordan Gibson and Billy Sharp scored as Doncaster inflicted a first defeat of the League One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115158728350189811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}