Telegraph:
‘Stuart Pearce does not do half-hearted, so it was small wonder he looked utterly horror-struck to see his supine side bundled out of the League Cup by a team struggling to come to terms with League One.
‘Yet Pearce's men did not deserve to win after rarely looking like scoring from open play on an evening when they evidently turned up in complacent, perhaps even contemptuous mode and were put firmly in their place by Dave Penney's tough and tenacious Rovers.’
