Crawley Town suffered a second successive defeat after conceding three second-half goals to lose 3-0 at Bristol Rovers in League Two.
Manager Mark Yates made five changes from the side that lost 2-0 at home to Exeter City last Monday.
Top scorer Matt Harrold returned from a knee injury to face his former club while Gwion Edwards, Lyle Della-Verde, Josh Yorwerth and Roarie Deacon were also back in the starting line-up.
Defences had the upper hand in a first half of few chances.
Rovers went ahead on 52 minutes when Matty Taylor headed home a corner at the near post.
Skipper Sonny Bradley blazed over a chance for Crawley to equalise before Liam Lawrence curled a free-kick over the ball and into the top left-hand corner to make it 2-0 on 76 minutes.
Two minutes later Taylor got his second of the game from a Chris Lines cross.
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