Let’s Look At The Stats – Millers v Owls

Rotherham United lost their first home league game this lunchtime against neighbours Sheffield Wednesday by two goals to nil and had a penalty saved.

But it was the Millers who had the better stats.

Fifty-five per cent possession and eight corners to nil saw the Millers better than their rivals although it was the Owls who had the better of the aerial duels. Our passing accuracy in our opponents half came out at fifty-six per cent which was twelve per cent better than the visitors.

The Millers had fourteen shots at goal, seven which were outside the box and seven inside, of which two were on target with Wednesday having five on target from seven shots.

Our tackle success rate was seventy-seven per cent while we conceded seventeen fouls getting one yellow card to the visitors twelve and receiving four yellow cards.

I don’t think we played particularly badly today but some of our passing leaves a lot to be desired. Losing Chieo was a big blow and I don’t think Sadlier got over his penalty miss – well save – because the rest of his game wasn’t up to his usual standard. I think it was Ben Wiles’ best game for a while but, not pointing fingers, but what a mess-up for their second goal. I also think JJ (Kayode) is looking more promising with each game – and we certainly need him to step up now and show us what he’s made of.

Let’s just mention ‘offsides’ – our tally was six today and I believe they were all given by the linesman on the dugout side. Not to put too finer point on it he was poor, blimey we’ve even got straight lines mowed into the pitch for him to look down. I’d like to say he’d learned the offside rule for the second half but clearly that wasn’t the case.

Another derby game next Saturday when Doncaster Rovers are in town, let’s hope the turnstiles are working and we have a linesman who knows the rules.

Up The Millers