Doncaster Rovers vs Plymouth Argyle - prediction, team news, lineups

Aiming to extremity their winless commencement to the League One season, Doncaster Rovers volition invited Plymouth Argyle to the Club Doncaster Sports Village successful the 5th circular of league fixtures connected Saturday.

The hosts person managed 3 points from their archetypal 4 matches, portion their visitors suffered a midweek decision aft a archetypal triumph past Saturday.

Match preview

Doncaster Rovers volition bid to enactment a archetypal notch successful their wins file successful League One connected Saturday aft a comparatively dilatory commencement to their 2nd consecutive play successful England's 3rd tier.

After winning promotion, they managed a comfy 14th-placed decorativeness past clip astir nether Grant McCann but are yet to get afloat up and moving successful 2026-27, with their lone triumph coming done a punishment shootout to advancement successful the EFL Cup against Stockport County successful their season-opener.

The Rovers past started their league run with a 2-1 distant decision to Mansfield Town and person since played retired 3 consecutive draws alongside an EFL Cup decision to Middlesbrough, firstly sharing the points with Barnsley and Stevenage.

McCann's men past hosted Notts County connected Tuesday and led until the hr people done Isaac Hutchinson, lone to beryllium pegged backmost and forced to stock the points successful a 1-1 gully arsenic Oli Cooper levelled for the visitors.

Now with 3 points connected the committee from 4 outings, including 2 from 2 location games, Doncaster Rovers volition anticipation to kickstart their run with a archetypal triumph astatine the 5th clip of asking astatine the weekend.

Their visitors, meanwhile, get successful South Yorkshire successful hunt of a instrumentality to winning ways, having suffered a midweek setback successful a mixed commencement to their season.

Plymouth Argyle headed into 2026-27 with optimism, having yet finished eighth past clip astir successful their archetypal play nether Tom Cleverley arsenic 1 of the division's signifier teams successful 2026, shooting up the part arsenic they won 14 and mislaid conscionable 4 of their 23 league matches aft the crook of the twelvemonth to autumn conscionable 2 points abbreviated of the playoff spots aft a mediocre start.

Then mounting retired for a afloat word of challenging astatine the apical of the array for a instrumentality to the Championship, the Pilgrims person managed 4 points from their archetypal 4 league matches, having started with a nonaccomplishment to Stockport County and a gully astatine Wycombe Wanderers earlier an EFL Cup exit astatine the hands of Coventry City.

Cleverley's men past managed a archetypal league triumph past weekend, beating Bradford City 2-0 astatine location acknowledgment to goals from Julio Pleguezuelo and Harvey White, lone to suffer by the aforesaid scoreline successful a midweek travel to Leicester City arsenic Will Alves and Harry Howell scored first-half goals to nonstop them location empty-handed.

Yet to find the consistency that saw them surge into the playoff contention past clip around, Plymouth Argyle volition look for a archetypal distant triumph of the play connected Saturday.

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Team News

Doncaster Rovers are acceptable to stay without defenders Tom Nixon, Matty Pearson and Jamie Sterry and attackers Francis Okoronkwo and James Collins owed to ongoing injuries.

Grant McCann whitethorn tract an unchanged starting XI from their midweek gully against Notts County, with Isaac Hutchinson having netted his 2nd extremity of the play from an precocious midfield role.

He whitethorn again enactment Alfie May and Brandon Hanlan up front, portion prima midfielder Owen Bailey offers further attacking menace having scored 13 league goals past season.

Plymouth midfielders Michael Baidoo and Malachi Boating stay sidelined, portion Owen Oseni and Jack MacKenzie should besides inactive beryllium ruled out.

Will Evans has started each crippled up beforehand since his summertime accomplishment from Mansfield Town, portion Aribim Pepple volition apt instrumentality to articulation him having notched up 16 goals successful 35 League One appearances for the Pilgrims successful 2025-26.

Summer signings Harvey White and Tyreeq Bakinson should proceed successful midfield, portion Ronan Curtis and Xavier Amaechi volition anticipation to support their places successful enactment of the beforehand 2 contempt contention from the likes of Caleb Watts and Oliver Irow.

Doncaster Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Simkin; Grehan, Byrne, McGrath, Senior; Bailey, Gotts; O'Reilly, Hutchinson; Hanlan, May

Plymouth Argyle imaginable starting lineup:

Cooper; Harding, Mitchell, Pleguezuelo, Hartridge; Amaechi, Bakinson, White, Curtis; Pepple, Evans

We say: Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Plymouth Argyle

We expect a choky contention connected Saturday with some teams warring to kickstart their campaigns with wins.

The visitors arguably boast the amended prime but are yet to find their groove, portion the hosts have, astatine least, been pugnacious to bushed aboriginal connected this term.

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