ROCHDALE AFC 1-1 AET COVENTRY CITY
(Rochdale win on penalties)
City; Charles-Cook, Stokes, Ricketts, Morris, Martin, Fleck, Phillips, Vincelot (Maddison 53), Lameiras, O'Brien (G.Thomas 75), Tudgay, Subs: Burge, Johnson, C.Thomas, Haynes, Swanson.
Rochdale: Lillis, Rafferty, McNulty, Lancashire, Vicenti, McDermott (Noble-Lazarus 65), Allen, Camps (Rose 96) Kennedy, Bunney (Andrew 46), Henderson. Subs: Eastham,, Alessandra, Tanser, Diba Musangu.
HT RFC 1-0 CCFC
FT RFC 1-1. CCFC
ET1 RFC 1-1 CCFC
ET2 RFC 1-1 CCFC
City lost 5-3 on penalties
ATT 1,986
Goals Donal McDermott 45, Marcus Tudgay 86
Referee E.Ilderton
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Coventry City got their best result ever at Rochdale but lost on penalties after the game finished 1-1 after extra time.
The Sky Blues included Bryn Morris in their starting line up and played reasonably well before Rochdale took the lead with a 45th minute screamer from Donal McDermott.
City had a couple of penalty appeals turned down and a goal disallowed but in the 86th minute, they equalised thanks to a close range finish from Marcus Tudgay.
So extra time it was for the 400 or so City supporters, many of who had been sat on a traffic heavy M6 in a crowd of 1,986.
That failed to bring a goal and the match went to penalties.
Everyone had scored theirs until Ruben Lameiras was put off by Lillis' antics on the goal-line and he hit the bar.
Calvin Andrew stepped up to score and City were out.