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Bristol City 2 Emmanuel-Thomas 12′: Bryan 76′: .
Team badge of Bristol Rovers Bristol Rovers 1 McChrystal 59′: .
FT 90 +6
HT 1-0
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3 September 2013 Last changed at 14:39
Lineup, Bookings (3) & Substitutions (5) Bristol City
13 Parish
02 Moloney
05 Flint
22 Shorey
24 O'Connor Booked
11 Wagstaff
14 Reid (Wynter - 90' )
15 Bryan (Carey - 88' )
21 Pack Booked
10 Emmanuel-Thomas
23 Harewood (Baldock - 69' )
Substitutes
01 Fielding
06 Carey
16 Wynter
28 McLaughlin
09 Baldock
Bristol Rovers
01 Mildenhall
02 Smith
06 Parks
14 Brown
29 McChrystal
15 Norburn
17 Harrison
30 Lockyer
32 O'Toole
07 Clarkson Booked (Santos - 81' )
09 Harrold (Brunt - 80' )
Substitutes
20 Gough
05 Kenneth
08 Gill
33 Santos
26 Brunt
Ref: Hooper
Att: 17,888
City 2 Rovers 1: Bryan picks his moment to be a hero
The Bristol Post.
Joe Bryan could hardly have picked a better time to deliver his first senior goal for Bristol City.
Arch-rivals City and Rovers were locked together at 1-1 as a pulsating Johnstone’s Paint Trophy first round tie headed towards a penalty shoot-out that neither side wanted.
Pirates centre-back Mark McChrystal headed his first goal for the club in the 59th minute to cancel out Jay Emmanuel-Thomas’s 12th-minute wonder strike and it was anybody’s game with 14 minutes remaining.
But cometh the hour, cometh the man, and Bryan stepped up to the mark when opportunity came knocking to grab a dramatic winner and settle the 104th Bristol derby in favour of City. The ball ran loose to the teenage Academy product just inside the penalty area and he demonstrated amazing coolness under pressure to curl his shot beyond Rovers goalkeeper Steve Mildenhall and into the far corner and spark pandemonium inside a packed Ashton Gate.
Although League Two Rovers improved after the break and threatened to cause an upset, City were the better team over the course of the 90 minutes and deserved to make it through to Saturday’s second round draw.
City head coach Sean O’Driscoll made five changes to the side that drew 1-1 at Gillingham last time out, recalling the fit-again Bryan to the left side of midfield, handing first starts to Marlon Harewood and Nicky Shorey and a debut to new signing James O’Connor and summoning Elliot Parish to replace Frank Fielding in goal.
A veteran of Bristol derby battles, Rovers boss John Ward gave Matt Harrold his first start of the season in place of Ryan Brunt, who recovered sufficiently from injury to appear on the bench.
This was always likely to be a contest between contrasting styles and the difference in approach was obvious from the first whistle, City keeping the ball well, while Rovers dropped deep, maintained a disciplined shape and worked hard for one another.
If Rovers’ plan was to keep things tight and frustrate the home side, it worked only up to a point. The one thing they could ill afford was to concede an early goal and that is exactly what they did.
There appeared little danger when Emmanuel-Thomas received an astute pass from Bobby Reid in a central position 25 yards out, but the former Arsenal man stepped inside, took two touches to set himself and, sensing an opportunity to make a name for himself when Tom Parkes and McChrystal failed to close him down, unleashed a venomous left-footed drive that beat Mildenhall’s despairing dive and ended up making the top corner of the net bulge.
It was a truly stunning strike from the Londoner, whose fifth goal of an increasingly productive season sent more than 15,000 Robins supporters into rapture.
In need of a positive response, former City striker David Clarkson tried his luck with a low shot that flew wide of the target from the edge of the 18-yard box, while City goalkeeper Parish dropped to his right to gather another long-range effort from Oliver Norburn as the visitors pressed.
Physically imposing and invariably taller than their opponents, Rovers posed a threat from set pieces and a Norburn corner caused consternation at the heart of the home defence before the ball was hacked clear by James O’Connor.
More measured in their approach play, City were the more incisive of the two teams and they almost doubled their lead on 32 minutes, the busy Bryan cutting in from the left and feeding Harewood, whose fierce shot on the turn drew a wonderful one-handed save from Mildenhall.
Rovers were clearly struggling to contain Emmanuel-Thomas and a jinking run that saw him elude three blue and white-shirted defenders culminated in Parkes blocking his angled shot from 12 yards out.
While it remained only 1-0, Rovers were still in with a shout against opponents who had yet to keep a clean this season and Harrold seized upon a mistake by Marlon Pack deep in Robins territory, only to shoot at Parish.
Rovers were riding their luck at the other end of the pitch and the increasingly influential Reid beat Mildenhall with a clever chip shot from the edge of the box, only to see the ball bounce off the top of the bar and behind to safety.
Reid was running midfield and City’s only concern was that, having created so many clear-cut chances, they were not further ahead at the break.
Rovers tried to repair the damage by pressing higher up the park in the second half and were rewarded on 59 minutes when Pack fouled Norburn and Lee Brown delivered the resultant free-kick into the mix on the edge of the six-yard box. McChrystal emerged to head the ball into the net via the inside of a post for a deserved equaliser.
The game was now perfectly set-up and only needed a hero to win it for either side. That man was young Bryan, who found himself in the right place at the right time to curl his shot into the far corner after Mildenhall had pushed out a shot from the marauding Emmanuel-Thomas.
City: @Parish, Moloney, Flint, O’Connor, Shorey, Wagstaff, Pack, Reid (Wynter 90), Bryan (Carey 88), Emmanuel-Thomas, Harewood (Baldock 69). Not Used: McLaughlin, Fielding.
Booked: @O’Connor, Pack.
Goals: @Emmanuel-Thomas 12, Bryan 76.
Rovers: @Mildenhall, Smith, Parkes, McChrystal, Brown, Norburn, Lockyer, O’Toole, Harrison, Clarkson (Santos 81), Harrold (Brunt 80). Not Used: Kenneth, Gill, Gough.
Booked: @Clarkson.
Goals: @McChrystal 59.
Attendance: @17,888.
Referee: @Simon Hooper (Wiltshire).
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Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (12), Joe Bryan (76) 
James O'Connor (55), Marlon Pack (59) 
