📏 Form Guide

Rotherham United

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Rotherham United will be wanting a better result here following a 1-0 Championship loss in their previous game against Swansea City.

In that game, Rotherham United managed 29% possession and 4 attempts at goal with 0 on target. The scorer for Rotherham United was Andy Rinomhota (74' Own goal). On the other side, Swansea City had 16 shots on goal with 6 of them on target.

Rotherham United have really been misfiring in more recent games. Their goals record equals just 2 against opposition teams during the course of their last six fixtures. In those meetings, Rotherham United have also seen the tally of goals against them total 8. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend will be sustained into this next match.

Coming into this fixture, Rotherham United have not emerged victorious against Birmingham City in their last 2 matches in the league.

Birmingham City

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Birmingham City will go into this game following on from a 3-0 Championship win versus Coventry City in their most recent outing.

In that game, Birmingham City had 29% possession and 15 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Birmingham City, goals were scored by Ivan Šunjić (41') and Jay Stansfield (59'). On the other side, Coventry City got 12 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Bobby Thomas (12' Own goal) scored for Coventry City.

Gary Rowett's Birmingham City have converted 6 times throughout their previous six matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during those same clashes equals 6.

Ahead of this clash, Birmingham City are without an away win for the past 7 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 22/04/2019 shows that Rotherham United have won 1 of these games & Birmingham City 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A combined sum of 11 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 4 of them from The Millers and 7 netted by The Blues. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The last league contest between these sides was Championship match day 19 on 02/12/2023 when the final score was Birmingham City 0-0 Rotherham United.

That day, Birmingham City had 62% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

Rotherham United had 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Andy Davies.

📰 Team News: Rotherham United

The Rotherham United manager will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all coming into this game with a fully healthy squad available to choose from.

In all likelihood, The Millers will probably use a 5-4-1 formation this time, utilising Viktor Johansson, Sebastian Revan, Hakeem Odoffin, Lee Peltier, Cameron Humphreys, Cohen Bramall, Oliver Rathbone, Andy Rinomhota, Sam Clucas, Cafu and Sam Nombe.

📋 Team News: Birmingham City

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group, there’s just the lone fitness issue for the Birmingham City boss Gary Rowett to be concerned about. Alfie Chang (Knee injury) won’t be in action.

We believe The Blues could decide to play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with John Ruddy, Ethan Laird, Krystian Bielik, Dion Sanderson, Lee Buchanan, Seung-ho Paik, Ivan Sunjic, Koji Miyoshi, Tyler Roberts, Keshi Anderson and Jay Stansfield.

🔮 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Rotherham United will need things to go their way to score against this Birmingham City lineup who we reckon should win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a good tussle with a 0-1 victory for Birmingham City at full-time.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 13:06 20/04/2024