'˜We have a lot to learn,' says Grant McCann: Wycombe 3 Doncaster Rovers 2

THE showboating will have to stop if Doncaster Rovers are to claim a play-off place.
Grant McCann: Unhappy.Grant McCann: Unhappy.
Grant McCann: Unhappy.

Manager Grant McCann was upset by the way Rovers squandered a 2-0 lead with 20 minutes to go at Adams Park and lost 3-2.

John Marquis reached 20 goals for the season on the hour and Tommy Rowe made it 2-0 10 minutes later, but it was not enough to condemn Gareth Ainsworth’s battlers to a fifth successive defeat in League One.

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Paris Cowan-Hall’s double – the second in stoppage-time – either side of Curtis Thompson’s equaliser handed Rovers just their second defeat in 13 games in all competitions.

McCann, who felt his side demonstrated a lack of care and attention, said: “I thought in the first half we lacked energy and tempo in our play. I told the boys we were fortunate to come in at half-time with the game 0-0 because they were better than us. But we upped our game, got a comfortable lead at 2-0 up and then we stopped doing what we are good at.

“We started to take four or five touches on the ball, step-overs, showboating, clapping the fans.

“It was just really immature from us really. We let them shoot from the edge of the box and that is disappointing.

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“We had chances. Alfie May could have scored to make it 3-0. Mallik (Wilks) had a couple of great chances. I think we had four one-on-ones in the game. We’ve got to learn. We’re still learning.”

McCann believed Wycombe’s Dominic Gape should have been sent off for a high challenge on Herbie Kane with the score at 2-1.

Wycombe Wanderers: Allsop, McCarthy, Jombati, El-Abd, Jacobson, Bloomfield (Kashket 72), Gape, Thompson, Freeman, Tyson (Akinfenwa 72), Cowan-Hall. Unused substitutes: Stewart, Mackail-Smith, Yates, Harriman, Samuel.

Doncaster Rovers: Lawlor, Blair (Mason 64), Butler, Tom Anderson, Andrew, Crawford (Rowe 67), Whiteman, Kane, Wilks, Marquis, Coppinger (May 84). Unused substitutes: Marosi, Greaves, Lewis, Smith.

Referee: L Collins (Surrey).