Rotherham United make the hop, skip and a jump trip to Hillsborough for this South Yorkshire derby.
It was last season that the pair last met on Sheffield soil, which was the first game for new manager Darren Moore. He wouldn’t have been impressed on seventeen minutes when Michael Smith opened the scoring for the visitors but his life looked like being made a little better when some awful refereeing from Darren Bond saw Rotherham down to ten men when he sent off Smith on sixty-six minutes – a card that was hastily rescinded not twenty-four hours later. An unfortunate own goal from Matt Olosunde looked to have given the hosts a point from the game on the eighty-second minute but when a poorly taken corner six minutes into time added on by the Owls landed at the feet of Freddie Ladapo off he ran down the pitch, being urged on by the Millers commentators in the stadium and every Miller watching from home, he struck the ball beautifully to see it nestle in the bottom right-hand corner of the net to give Rotherham all three points.
In December 2018 the teams got a point apiece at Hillsborough. On the stroke of half-time Lucas Joao put the hosts one-up but Michael Smith got a Millers equaliser a minute into the second half. Richie Towell sent the visiting fans barmy when he made it two-one to Rotherham on the fifty-fifth minute but less than ten minutes later Joao struck again with a header to give the Owls a point.
Two seasons before the game between the two looked to be heading for a goalless draw until the fourth minute of time added on when Richard Wood was adjudged to have fouled Lucas Joao in the area and, much to everyone’s surprise, saw a red card – this was later rescinded. Steven Fletcher scored the spot-kick giving the Owls bragging rights on the day.
The season before at Hillsborough Matt Derbyshire scored the only goal of the game on the twenty-first minute to give the Millers all three much needed points. The season before was a goalless draw.
Before the two met in the Championship in the last few years the last time they met in League One was in August 2002. The hosts went in front with a goal from Craig Armstrong on just eight minutes. Just before the half-hour mark a poor tackle saw Paul Warne bungled over in the penalty area with Alan Lee stepping up and sending Kevin Pressman the wrong way which levelled the scores up. Pressman made amends by making some superb saves in the second half but in the final minute of the game a fantastic strike from Darren Garner, who had replaced Stewart Talbot just over twenty minutes earlier, literally flew into the net to send the travelling Millers fans wild.
The season before this, strangely enough, the score was the same – a two-one win for the Millers at Hillsborough. This time an Alan Lee goal opened the scoring on fifty minutes with Shefki Kuqi climbing highest to equalise twenty minutes later. With it look like it was going to be a point a piece up a free-kick in the final minute of the game was met by Richie Barker, who had come on for Mark Robins on the sixty-eighth minute, and he headed the ball past Kevin Pressman into the net for the winning goal.
Rotherham first beat Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough in September 1951 when there were eight goals in the game. The score was five-three to the visitors with Jack Shaw getting two goals and Jack Grainger, Charlie Tomlinson and Peter Wragg, with his first ever league goal, scoring too.
The two first met at Hillsborough in March 1921 when it was a two-nil win for the Owls.
The game at the New York Stadium earlier this season was a win for the visitors. A penalty in time added on in the first half was missed by Kieran Sadlier for the Millers with second half goals from Florian Kamberi and Lee Gregory giving the Owls the win.
League Games – Millers v Owls
League One
21.08.2021 Rotherham 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday
Championship
03.03.2021 Sheffield Wednesday 1 Rotherham 2
28.10.2020 Rotherham 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday
16.02.2019 Rotherham 2-2 Sheffield Wednesday
08.12.2018 Sheffield Wednesday 2-2- Rotherham
04.04.2017 Rotherham 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday
17.12.2016 Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Rotherham
06.03.2016 Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Rotherham
23.10.2015 Rotherham 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday
21.03.2015 Rotherham 2-3 Sheffield Wednesday
08.11.2014 Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Rotherham
League One
01.01.2003 Rotherham 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday
24.08.2002 Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Rotherham
23.02.2002 Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Rotherham
25.09.2001 Rotherham 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Division Two (Old)
02.04.1983 Rotherham 0-3 Sheffield Wednesday
28.12.1982 Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Rotherham
04.05.1982 Rotherham 2-2 Sheffield Wednesday
08.09.1981 Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 Rotherham
Division Three (Old)
23.02.1980 Sheffield Wednesday 5-0 Rotherham
13.10.1979 Rotherham 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday
07.05.1979 Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Rotherham
07.10.1978 Rotherham 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday
25.03.1978 Rotherham 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday
27.12.1977 Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Rotherham
12.04.1977 Rotherham 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday
02.11.1976 Sheffield Wednesday 1-3 Rotherham
20.03.1976 Rotherham 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday
29.11.1975 Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Rotherham
Division Two (Old)
21.03.1959 Rotherham 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday
01.11.1958 Sheffield Wednesday 5-0 Rotherham
10.03.1956 Rotherham 2-3 Sheffield Wednesday
10.12.1955 Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Rotherham
26.01.1952 Rotherham 3-3 Sheffield Wednesday
22.09.1951 Sheffield Wednesday 3-5 Rotherham
02.09.1922 Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Rotherham
26.08.1922 Rotherham 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday
15.10.1921 Rotherham 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday
08.10.1921 Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Rotherham
28.03.1921 Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 Rotherham
01.11.1920 Rotherham 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday
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