CITY eased their way to a first away win of the season with a comfortable 3-1 triumph over Mansfield.
T&A chief sports writer SIMON PARKER provides the facts and figures as well as his player ratings - which make good reading for Bantams fans.
MAN OF THE MATCH
Plenty of candidates to choose from in a fine team display. But on the strength of scoring one goal and having a big hand in the other two, Connor Wood earns the individual plaudits.
MOMENT OF THE MATCH
It was an absolute shocker from Mansfield keeper Marek Stech – but his own goal gave City a huge early boost as well as deflating the Stags.
MOAN OF THE MATCH
City blew their clean sheet late on from one of two many free headers from set-pieces.
TACTICS
City made five changes from Harrogate including a league debut for Bryce Hosannah. Reece Staunton (ankle) and Levi Sutton (calf) were missing as well as hamstring victim Gareth Evans.
Stuart McCall lined up with four at the back behind a fluid midfield where Elliot Watt was sitting behind Harry Pritchard and Callum Cooke. Dylan Mottley-Henry was pushed up to playing almost as a third striker.
REFEREE: Paul Howard
BOOKING: Benning (Mansfield); Cooke (City)
SENT OFF: Lapslie (Mansfield)
SHOTS ON TARGET: Mansfield 9 City 5
SHOTS OFF TARGET: Mansfield 3 City 12
CORNERS: Mansfield 6 City 5
FOULS: Mansfield 15 City 15
PLAYER RATINGS:
MANSFIELD: Stech 4, O’Keeffe 6, Menayese 6, Sweeney 5, Rawson 4 (Benning 46min, 5), McLaughlin 5, Perch 5, Maris 5 (Charsley 46min, 6), Lapslie 5, Bowery 6, Maynard 4 (Cook 46min, 6). Subs (not used): O’Driscoll, Reid, Sinclair, Stone.
CITY: O’Donnell 7, Hosannah 7, A O’Connor 7, Richards-Everton 7, Wood 8, Mottley-Henry 7 (French 76min), Watt 8, Cooke 8, Pritchard 8 (Longridge 89min), Donaldson 8 (Samuels 86min), Novak 8. Subs (not used): Guthrie, Clarke, Cousin-Dawson, Hornby.
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