RECAP: Doncaster Rovers 1 Peterborough United 4 - Rovers suffer heavy defeat in James Coppinger's final match

Doncaster Rovers lost to promoted Peterborough United in embarrassing fashion in James Coppinger’s final game for the club.
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A much-changed Posh outfit raced into a three-goal lead after just 16 minutes and added another one before half time.

Coppinger came close to marking his final appearance with a goal but saw his second half free-kick come back off the bar.

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Tyreece John-Jules scored Rovers’ consolation in stoppage time.

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The defeat saw Rovers finish 14th in League One.

RECAP the game below.

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LIVE: Doncaster Rovers 1 Peterborough United 4

51min OFF THE BAR JAMES COPPINGER

A free kick in a great position, there was only one man who was going to take it.

And James Coppinger curls a beauty on goal that rattles off the bar.

Would have been some moment, in spite of the scoreline.

46min Double switch

Andy Butler and AJ Greaves are replaced by Ben Blythe and Josh Sims.

12.54pm That’s the break

And that was absolutely awful from a Rovers perspective.

So feeble in defence, disorganised and so easy to pick off. Peterborough have been rampant and Rovers have barely got out of bed.

Embarrassing

Tyreece John-Jules drills a shot narrowly wide from the corner of the box. Good strike

SIX minutes

And that is six minutes that no one asked for

45min Close...again

Ricky-Jade Jones just fired millimetres wide of the upright after Peterborough strolled through the Rovers side yet again.

Ricky-Jade Jones gets in on the act for the fourth goal and, yet again, it is so, so easy for the visitors.

Ethan Hamilton strode through the middle under no pressure from the Rovers midfield and slid in a pass to Jones, who spun off in between Tom Anderson and Brad Halliday, set himself and finished well.

Rovers are being torn to shreds.

37min Another one for James

It was a good attack from Rovers and one they kept alive well. Tenacious play from AJ Greaves saw him win the ball back and feed it in to Reece James who struck on the volley, but straight at Pym.

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