📏 Form Guide

Rotherham United

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Rotherham United will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 3-0 Championship defeat last time out to Preston North End.

In that match, Rotherham United had 38% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Preston North End had 18 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Duane Holmes (22') and Emil Riis (37', 42') scored for Preston North End.

Fixtures featuring Rotherham United have proved to be absorbing ones lately with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past six clashes alone, a grand total of 21 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 4 of those coming from Rotherham United.

Analysis of their past results shows that Rotherham United:

• have not beaten Millwall in their last 6 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 7 league games. Fans are getting restless.

Millwall

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In their previous game, Millwall drew 1-1 in the Championship tie with West Bromwich Albion.

In that game, Millwall managed 32% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Millwall was Duncan Watmore (21'). West Bromwich Albion had 6 shots at goal with 2 on target. John Swift (67') scored for West Bromwich Albion.

A succession of effective performances by the Millwall defensive unit has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their past 6 fixtures overall. During the same period of time, their forwards have scored 6. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this next game, of course.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Millwall:

• remain undefeated by Rotherham United when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head meetings going back to 02/02/2019 shows that these encounters have not been fruitful for Rotherham United. They’ve not managed to get any victories at all whereas Millwall have maintained the edge over them, running out winners in 67 per cent of those match-ups.

A total of 10 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 1 for The Millers and 9 created by The Lions. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.67.

The last league meeting featuring the two was Championship match day 7 on 20/09/2023 when it finished Millwall 3-0 Rotherham United.

In that game, Millwall had 63% possession and 20 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Goals were scored by Ryan Longman (27'), Zian Flemming (58') and Tom Bradshaw (93').

Rotherham United had 5 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The referee was Geoff Eltringham.

ℹ️ Team News: Rotherham United

The Rotherham United manager Leam Richardson doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game owing to a completely injury-free group to choose from.

📋 Team News: Millwall

With a fully healthy squad available to choose from, the Millwall manager Neil Harris does not have any fitness worries to speak of before this match.

⚡ Prediction

In our view, Rotherham United could find themselves struggling to be putting a goal past this Millwall team who we think should just have the edge.

That’s why our selection here is for a very competitive game with a 0-1 win for Millwall when all is said and done.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Lucas Pereira, 13:05 01/04/2024