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Lessons to take as Swindon Town earn Doncaster Rovers draw

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11.03.2025

Swindon Town produced a fine second-half fightback to earn a 2-2 draw on the road against automatic promotion chasing Doncaster Rovers.

Rob Street scored inside a minute and Joe Sbarra added a second to give Doncaster a commanding lead, before half-time substitutes Danny Butterworth and Joe Westley levelled the scores.

As Swindon again won a hard-fought point against one of the league’s top sides, what did we learn about them as a team?

The substitutions do it again

We have seen a number of times that Ian Holloway is able to impact and change games whilst they are underway and Doncaster felt like the biggest achievement in that area.

This was a foregone conclusion at the break, Rovers had been levels above. It was a total mismatch. Then the triple change added some dynamism and it was anybody’s game.

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