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Franno: The pressure is all on Donny now
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| Simon Francis |
BLUES full back Simon Francis insists the pressure will all be on Doncaster when the two sides meet again at the Keepmoat Stadium on Friday.
Rovers managed to shut out the Shrimpers at Roots Hall to become favourites to make it to the final against either Carlisle or Leeds United.
But Francis is relishing the prospect of heading into Yorkshire as underdogs.
"If we're being honest, Doncaster are favourites to go through now and the pressure will be on them in front of their fans a bit more," said the 23-year-old.
"That helps us in a way though because it means they will have to come at us and hopefully that will allow us to play more of our football.
"We're still in the tie and we will be going there to give it a real go."
Francis came closest to giving the Shrimpers a first leg lead but his close range shot, following a left wing cross from Mark Gower, was parried to safety by Rovers keeper Neil Sullivan.
"If anything I caught it almost too cleanly and struck it too well," said Francis.
"I made a good contact on the ball and that helped the keeper to push it back out, which was disappointing.
"It was bouncing up a bit which made it hard but, if I'd scuffed it, it might have gone in. We had one or two other chances as well which maybe we should have put away, but it wasn't to be.
"The important thing was we managed to keep a clean sheet at the other end and it's definitely still all to play for."
2:19pm Monday 12th May 2008
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