Hartlepool United vs Rotherham United. EFL Trophy Northern Area Quarter Final.
Suit Direct Stadium, Hartlepool UnitedAttendance2,911.
Tuesday 12 November 2013 22:10, UK
Rotherham clinched a place in the last four of the Northern Area of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy with a 2-1 win at Hartlepool.
Pools went into the game on the back of four successive home wins and dominated this one, missing a host of chances to take the game to penalties. The Millers took the lead after eight minutes, Tom Eaves firmly planting a header home from Kieran Agard's corner for his first goal for the club. The rest of the half was one-way traffic, but all Pools had to show for their effort was Andy Monkhouse's 24th-minute leveller - the former Miller rolling his finish across keeper Adam Collin. Collin then saved from James Poole, Luke James and Monkhouse as the Pools were dominant. But, after 44 minutes, the Millers regained the lead. The ball was rolled into the path of Agard and his shot was covered by keeper Scott Flinders, only for a big deflection to wrong-foot the keeper. Pools didn't dominate the second half like the first, although they went close to a leveller at the death. In four minutes of injury time Jack Baldwin headed against the bar after Collin had denied Neil Austin, then Antony Sweeney hooked over from close range.
