Doncaster Rovers boss Grant McCann highlights attacking shortcoming following Stevenage stalemate
Grant McCann felt Doncaster Rovers were too rushed going forward in their goalless draw with Stevenage.
Doncaster have not won a league game since early September but avoided a third straight defeat with a battling performance on the road.
McCann hailed the defensive work put in to frustrate a promotion-chasing Stevenage, but was left to lament Doncaster’s shortcomings in the final third.
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Grant McCann’s verdict
He said: “We’ve worked hard defensively with the group this week. [Stevenage are] really strong from set-plays, the best in the division, but we dealt with everything that was thrown at us.
“Our line was good, we caught them offside quite a lot. That was really good. We limited a team in the top six of League One to one, maybe one half-chance.
“From an attacking point of view, I felt we rushed things a little bit too much, hence why we didn’t get the goal, albeit we had probably the best two chances of the game.”
Need for improvement at home
Doncaster sit 19th in the League One table and McCann is now keen for his side to improve their poor home form.
He said: “I said this after Reading, we need to build off this. Any point away from home is a good point in this division and I stand by that, but we need to be better at home, we need to be taking games away from teams at home.
“We can’t be going 1-0 up and losing 2-1 or going 1-0 up and drawing at home. To be successful in this division, you need to win games at home.”
Stevenage boss Alex Revell added: “People have to realise that teams are going to come here and make it really difficult for us. That’s the target that you put on your head when you have the start we had.
“They all say when you come here, this is a difficult game. They have to do to us what we want to do to teams.
“That’s credit to our group but we now have to make sure that when that does happen, we find another way of winning games.