{"id":698610,"date":"2026-01-15T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698610\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:47:10","slug":"match-preview-bristol-rovers-v-colchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698610\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview | Bristol Rovers v Colchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bristol Rovers v Colchester United\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sky Bet League Two, The Memorial Stadium, Saturday 17 January 2026, 3:00pm KO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bristol Rovers<\/strong> will be looking to build on a positive performance against Plymouth Argyle when they host Colchester United in Sky Bet League Two.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates fell to a narrow defeat to the Pilgrims in a seven-goal thriller, with Aribim Pepple netting a stoppage-time winner in the Vertu Trophy Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Gas are back in Sky Bet League Two action for the first time since New Year&#8217;s Day, where Fabrizio Cavegn scored a second-half hat-trick in a 3-0 victory away at Shrewsbury Town. Rovers then had their away fixture against Barrow postponed, meaning there was an almost two-week break between fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Colchester have now played since New Year&#8217;s Day, when they beat promotion hopefuls Milton Keynes Dons 1-0 thanks to Jack Payne&#8217;s late penalty.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read everything you need to know about the fixture below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers v Colchester United\u00a0Sky Bet League Two, The Memorial Stadium, Saturday 17 January 2026, 3:00pm KO Bristol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-698610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115901552562596350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698610","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=698610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}