Portsmouth 2 Doncaster Rovers 3: Healy wins O'Driscoll tribute

Doncaster raced into a 2-0 lead inside the opening half hour thanks to goals from James Hayter and James Coppinger, before Joel Ward and David Nugent levelled it up for the home side with 15 minutes remaining.

Healy struck the winner 10 minutes from time before Carl Dickinson was dismissed for a lunging tackle. Rovers boss O'Driscoll praised Healy for his contribution since arriving on loan from Sunderland.

He said: "David hasn't played much league football for quite a long time. We lost Billy Sharp to a hamstring injury and we were looking around for someone. A lot of my lads knew him from Leeds and Sunderland.

"He just fits in with us. If you give him the ball, he takes care of it. He has done better than a lot of people would have expected.

"He has a good attitude and has been a good professional at the top level for a long time. He has got his enthusiasm back with us.

"Steve Bruce has done us a massive favour. He's a Premier League player on Premier League wages. If we had to pay anything near what his salary is, he wouldn't be here."

Both managers had differing views on the red card for Dickinson.

Pompey boss Steve Cotterill said: "Dicko is a competitor. He's a competitive boy but I didn't think there was that much in it really."

Doncaster manager Sean O'Driscoll unsurprisingly had a different view on Dickinson's dismissal.

O'Driscoll said: "It was reckless, that's the problem. The boy's a strong tackler and he was committed. There are a lot of good things about his play."

Portsmouth: Ashdown, Halford, Sonko (Rocha 46), Mokoena, Dickinson, Nugent (Ciftci 90), Brown, Mullins, Utaka, Kanu (Ward 46), Kitson. Unused substitutes: Flahavan, Hreidarsson, Hughes.

Doncaster: Sullivan, O'Connor, Thomas, Martis, Dumbuya, Oster (Wilson 80), Stock, Hird (Brooker 78), Hayter, Coppinger, Healy (Webster 90). Unused substitutes: Gary Woods, Whaley, Clarke.

Referee: G Scott (Oxfordshire).

Man of the match: David Healy.

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