CITY signed off a satisfying week as Andy Cook ruled the roost on the Wirral.
T&A chief sports writer SIMON PARKER was at Prenton Park yesterday and provides the match stats and his player ratings.
MAN OF THE MATCH
City were strong defensively – even more so given the late reshuffle – but you couldn’t look past Andy Cook for once again giving another of his former employers a good kicking.
MOMENT OF THE MATCH
City’s second goal came from a clinical counter-attack – Richie Smallwood picking out Calum Kavanagh who steered the ball into the path of Cook to effortlessly convert.
MOAN OF THE MATCH
The Bantams put themselves under pressure at times by carelessly giving the ball away. A more clinical opponent than Tranmere might have punished those loose moments.
TACTICS
There was a late issue for Graham Alexander after Neill Byrne was pulled out with illness having been originally named in an unchanged starting line-up.
Having been sick in the morning, Byrne tried to do the warm-up but lasted only five minutes – so Brad Halliday was drafted in as the third centre half. Lewis Richards was added to the bench.
REFEREE: Sunny Singh Gill
BOOKINGS: Morris (Tranmere); Diabate, J Walker, Benn (City)
SHOTS ON TARGET: Tranmere 2 City 3
SHOTS OFF TARGET: Tranmere 7 City 4
CORNERS: Tranmere 8 City 2
FOULS: Tranmere 11 City 10
POSSESSION %: Tranmere 60 City 40
PLAYER RATINGS
TRANMERE: McGee 6, O’Connor 6, Davies 6, Turnbull 6 (Taylor 84min), Norman 6, B Walker 6, Merrie 6 (Jennings 46min, 6), Bradshaw 6 (Saunders 46min, 6), Morris 6 (Hendry 74min), Patrick 7, Dennis 6 (Finley 46min, 6). Subs (not used): Norris, Taylor, Murphy.
CITY: S Walker 7, Halliday 8, Diabate 7, Shepherd 7 (Richards 55min, 6), Benn 7, Smallwood 7, Wright 6 (Huntington 84min), Oduor 7 (Pointon 90min), J Walker 7 (Evans 84min), Kavanagh 6, Cook 8. Subs (not used): Oliver, Smith, Doyle.
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