Doncaster Rovers 1 Leicester City 1: Wait is finally over as O’Driscoll celebrates Doncaster safety

Steve Brooker set Rovers on the way with a sublime 25-yard volley that rocketed into the top right-hand corner of the net five minutes after being brought on in place of Jason Euell at half-time.

On-loan striker Ayegbeni Yakubu grabbed a share of the spoils for the Foxes after coolly finishing a nice passing move 14 minutes from time.

However, the point was enough to ensure Sheffield United’s 2-2 draw with Barnsley was ultimately inconsequential.

And although Driscoll saw his side stretch their winless run to 11 matches, he was overjoyed they sealed their status Saturday afternoon.

“It’s about time to be honest,” he said. “We’ve been searching for an elusive win, still not got it but we’ve got the necessary point that we needed so I’m relieved.

“I’m pleased with the performance, I thought we were nice and organised and disciplined against a talented Leicester team. It was a good effort from everybody.”

O’Driscoll admitted he had been given sleepless nights by Leicester’s attacking prowess but was thrilled with his side’s work ethic this week.

He said: “I think you worry because you look at a team as talented as Leicester, you think ‘we’ve got goal difference to worry about’.

“If you’re going to get relegated from the Championship, you probably don’t want to get relegated on goal difference.

“We looked at their last six games and they’ve scored four twice, three once a couple of twos and ones and though they ship a few goals, they’ve got goals in them.

“But I thought we were nice and focused, everybody’s worked hard this week and nobody’s took their foot off the gas even though they can read stuff that says it would take a miracle for Sheffield United to pip us.

“We’ve worked as if it was the first game of the season and they’ve done things that they’ve needed to do, which is be organised and disciplined.”

Leicester boss Sven Goran Eriksson was philosophical after seeing his side’s narrow play-off hopes ended by the draw at the Keepmoat.

The Foxes needed to win and hope results went in their favour but Nottingham Forest’s victory over Scunthorpe ensured events in their game were a moot point.

He said: “It doesn’t really matter because Nottingham won and even if we had won 5-0 today, that’s it.”

Eriksson thought his side should have claimed all three points but was, once again, left to rue the opposition scoring from their first shot on target.

“Many times this season, the first shot they have at us is a goal. It was a great goal as well,” he said.

“We created chances, not many in the first half and of course I think we should win games like this but many times this season we haven’t.

“That’s why we are where we are in the table. To be fair to Doncaster, they fought very well but I think, for the crowd, it was a good game.

“We scored a very nice goal, I think there were five or six players involved and that was good football.”

Eriksson’s immediate focus is on Leicester’s last match of the season with Ipswich but he admitted to already thinking about their next campaign.

“So now for us is to have a big performance against Ipswich in front of our fans and then we have to start to think about next season and learn from this season, the mistakes we’ve been doing and try to do it better next season.

“We have to pull it back next season.”

Doncaster: Sullivan, O’Connor, Thomas, Friend, Dumbuya, Coppinger, Oster, Gillett (Stock 81), Mason (Hird 90), Hayter, Euell (Brooker 46). Unused substitutes: Maxted, Wilson, Shiels, Kilgallon.

Leicester: Weale, Naughton, Miguel Vitor, Bruma, Mee (Berner 66), Abe (Howard 61), Gallagher (Kamara 52), Wellens, King, Yakubu, Vassell. Unused substitutes: Smith, Tunchev, Teixeira, Dyer.

Referee: D Deadman (Cambridgeshire).

Man of the match: Steve Brooker.