Burton Albion go viral with a full time tweet mocking pre-match comments by Joey Barton after picking up a valuable win at Bristol Rovers.
The Brewers claimed all three points over struggling Bristol Rovers to boost their League One survival chances and put more pressure on Joey Barton.
Rovers went into the game searching for their first victory in six matches, and looked good when John Marquis headed the ball into the net from James Gibbons’ precise cross in the ninth minute.
Burton fought back however, and went on to clinch a fourth win from five league games with an equaliser coming in the 44th minute thanks to substitute Charlie Kirk at the near post.
55 minutes in, Burton took to lead, Sam Winnall scoring from close range with quickly replaced by Gassan Ahadme.
Ellery Balcombe kept out Taylor and Kirk with the game in the latter stages while Taylor had a goal disallowed for offside after a long-range Adedeji Oshilaja shot was dropped.
Come the full time whistle, the words of Joey Barton talking ahead of the game stayed in the heads of Burton, with Albion using it to taunt the Bristol Rovers boss.
Barton, who seemingly done the pre-match talking for Burton, said: “A team that has very little adventure in it.”
“Centre-halves in midfield, relatively straight-forward from back to front.”
“Try every trick in the book.”
“Teams that do that have to because of a lack of football ability, a lack of football ideology.”
“A team that has very little adventure in it.”
“Centre-halves in midfield, relatively straight-forward from back to front.”
“Try every trick in the book.”
“Teams that do that have to because of a lack of football ability, a lack of football ideology.”3️⃣ points. Cheers Joey 😘 pic.twitter.com/dMLWXGlvJ2
— Burton Albion FC (@burtonalbionfc) February 18, 2023
Burton manager Dino Maamria expressed his delight with the character shown by his side, saying to the club website: “We were full of desire, full of will to win and we’ve been doing the basics really well, and I think that’s the difference,” said Maamria. “It’s never easy to come to places like this – the pitch is very bobbly and it’s been played in very windy conditions.
“We didn’t start the game well. Chris McCann came off an injury and we changed shape just before that, and it worked really well. We then took control of the game and yes we won 2-1, but we should have won by three or four really.
“They’ve got some qualities in their forward options and their front line is full of goals – you’re always going to come places like this and have to defend really well,” added the Brewers boss.
“We grew into the game after conceding and we limited them. I think we had about 18 shots, with 9 on target compared to their two. Overall, it’s a fully deserved win.
“Dale Taylor is absolutely brilliant, said Maamria. “His work rate, he defends from the front, he creates chances and was unlucky to not get his goal. With the pass, he looked like he was going to shoot and then it just lays it off to him in a really neat finish.
“Kirk has been brilliant – I see him everyday in training and see how good he is. He doesn’t miss chances when he gets them and when he came on today he did really good.
“I’ve been trying to look after Sam [Winnall]. He’s important to us, even if it’s for half-an-hour late on. He wants to play and start games – he gets frustrated sometimes and I have to manage picking the right games for him.
“He got the goal and was unfortunate to get the injury and have to go off. We will have to assess it and see how he is.”
“I felt we should have scored more. Deji and Powelly were brilliant in the middle of the park. Brayford, Hamer, Sam Hughes, and Jasper on a yellow card were all really good. Zach is growing every week as well.
“Today, I’ve had to leave Sam Lavelle and Jordan Amissah out of the squad, and it’s tough to do that. They are two brilliant players and great guys as well. It’s probably the most difficult thing I have to do at the moment. It’s a testament to those players and it’s great to see the togetherness them and the group shows in the way they react.”
Watch the full post-Bristol Rovers reaction from @dino_maamria and Joe Powell with iFollow #Brewers 📹#BAFC ⤵️
— Burton Albion FC (@burtonalbionfc) February 19, 2023
Joey Barton said, as per Bristol Live after the game: “It’s a tough moment for us as a group; lads are lower on confidence than you would like.
“We get a great start and go 1-0 up in the game and possibly should have got a second or third. There was a little bit of a break in play and we didn’t seem to recover after that.
“A long punt down the pitch was not dealt with and a team that had created nothing found themselves 1-1 in the game and I think that just ate into the lads’ confidence.
“Second half, they kept trying and having a go, but we lacked a lot of quality today. It’s a tough moment but we’ve just got to keep scrapping through it.
“So there will be no sulking from us, no excuses. We’ll be back on the training pitch and ready to rock and roll at Oxford next Saturday.
“Without criticising the officials, I’m trying my best not to do it, I do feel was a foul on Jarell. It wasn’t given, but we still have opportunities to deal with it and we must do better.
“We will speak about that internally because I don’t want to drag the lads’ confidence down further by naming them in the media, but you have got to expect things to go wrong as a defender and be pessimistic.
“Jarell is possibly fouled, but we’ve got to be ready to catch any mistake or opportunity for the opponent. We didn’t do that and we got punished.
“It takes the energy out of the stadium. The fans were excellent and driving the team on, but we needed that second goal. That second goal would have elevated the confidence levels and settled everybody down and we probably would have not looked back from there.
“But that didn’t happen and we’re on the canvas because we can’t manage to clear our box or keep the ball out of our net.
“We gave the ball away needlessly for the second goal and have a couple of opportunities to clear and moments of good goalkeeping and good defending, but you can’t keep blocking shots. We had to exit the box and we didn’t manage to do that and we lost the game.”
📹 Rovers boss Joey Barton talks to club media after the 1-2 home defeat to Burton Albion.#BristolRovers pic.twitter.com/1WU8kCrrDC
— Bristol Rovers (@Official_BRFC) February 18, 2023
Social media users helped Burton go viral with a tweet mocking pre-match comments by Joey Barton after the win at Bristol Rovers…
@tombath19: Can I just say absolute class fans noise till the end deserved 3 points and u get one over Joey Barton fair play
@ConnorCarter_: Can you please stop giving other teams team talks for them @Joey7Barton
@AlexHarePhoto: Just ask @Joey7Barton about your budget relative to his because he seems to think it was soooo relevant last week vs Ipswich. Well done today.
@DominicWingrove: I’m a Wycombe fan but glad that you lot won too, I swear he just disrespects every club before he plays them
@whitby_glynn: Cheers @Joey7Barton ya melt
@Nortongashead: JB doing the opposition’s team talk yet again.
@darrell_ben: Gotta say, although you didn’t have many fans you sure did make yourselves heard 👍
@AdKempy: Burton admin 👏🏼
@EvanDraycott: Joey Barton with egg on his face again. Cheers 👍🏻
@sfry0804: Embarrassing, why say shit like this when we are in bad form? Because we draw in a cup final vs Ipswich? 😂
@pompeytess: Another Joey Barton masterclass 😂 top shithousery from the BAFC admin 👌
@GasheadAshley: Time to stop giving teams their team talk before a game…concentrate on sorting our form out and not worry about others. Let them play the way that they seems fit and concentrate on us because at the moment we are dog shit. Piss poor January really starting to show now
@timn257: Hold dat @Joey7Barton
@COG_1998: @Joey7Barton biggest dickhead going bar none.
@scott_szn36: he’s the gift that keeps on giving
@Allrightmeode: Watched his pre match video, jog on Joey thanks for the 3 points. Brilliant away day thanks lads COYB!! 🖤💛
@Matty1991Davis: @burtonalbionfc I will forever wish you all the very best of success 🤣
@MattRayns: Joey Barton is a prick
@owenc1883: we look like right knobs worryingly often
@trotmantom7: Outplayed us and won, simple game, fair result
@BumfacePeter: I absolutely hate these tit-for-tat social media exchanges between football clubs. Shows a lack of class, no matter how amusingly put together.
@DaveBott0: Always nice when your hometown club shows Joey Barton up for the total c**t that he is
@pacificpaddy: Slagged off @shrewsburytown too. His arrogance is why Barton never fulfilled his potential as a player and will not as a manager. He (thinks he) has all the answers.
@miraleyshon: When he said this midweek I had a feeling it would be played to the Burton players and probably come back to haunt him.
@therealtbailey: Well done Burton Albion. Love this!! 👏
@Pomredoz: Hahahhahaha @Joey7Barton in the mud. Reap what you sow dickhead!
@BrewersView: Relatively straightforward 😏
— Rob Skeates (@RobbieSkeates) February 18, 2023
Well done Burton 👏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/zIZ4IIEetB
— CityHomeAndAway🔴⚪🔴⚪ (@bcfcCallum98) February 18, 2023
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