Rotherham United welcome Bournemouth to the New York Stadium tomorrow afternoon for their next Championship game.
Rotherham are in nineteenth place going into this game and have twelve points while the Cherries are sitting very nicely second in the table and have fourteen points more than the Millers.
Last time at home the Millers got all three points beating Preston North End by two goals to one but they haven’t got anything from their last two away games losing them both by a single goal. Bournemouth have won their last two games that were both at home with their last away game at Birmingham City also being a win, three-one.
Rotherham have no new injury problems ahead of this game although Manager Paul Warne admits that his players are looking a ‘bit jaded’. Joe Mattock should be fit to play and Freddie Ladapo has a sore hip but also should make it.
‘If ever there was a game that I could do with the backing of ten thousand fans then it would be Saturday’s,’ the Gaffer told iFOLLOW. Saying Bournemouth are one of his predicted sides to go up, Warney said, ‘They’ve got pace and power throughout the team, can handle the ball and have very few weaknesses managing to keep practically the whole Premier League team together from last year. They will come here well drilled and it’s our job to be really competitive and cause them problems.’
Although Josh King is now out of isolation he isn’t deemed match fit while Bournemouth will also be without Jack Stacey.
Speaking to their Official Site Cherries Manager Jason Tindall said that he is expecting a really tough game tomorrow saying, ‘They (Rotherham) work extremely hard and they are a very good pressing side. They are a direct side which impose different problems but we’ve got to be ready for what they throw at us. They don’t concede many goals and we won’t underestimate them.’
Geoff Eltringham from County Durham has the whistle tomorrow afternoon.
