The game at Home Park yesterday was a two-one win for the hosts but, for Millers fans, will probably be more remembered for two disallowed goals and a dubious penalty.
Rotherham had a goal disallowed in each half – the first when David Ball, to be fair, probably was off-side but the second was as Warney says ‘a nasal hair poking past the last opposition defender’.
The penalty in time added on. Always dangerous for a defender to slide into a tackle in the penalty area, I would think nine times out of ten a penalty will be given. I think if the ref had had VAR he might have thought about his decision again and not given anything.
But, that’s football isn’t it – swings and roundabouts and bloomin’ officials.
All in all the Millers had enough chances to get at least a point, if not all three. And, it doesn’t really matter as we are already in the play-offs. But you want to go into those play-offs, against whoever your opponent is, on the back of a good run. And we really shouldn’t be going one-up away from home and not getting something from the game.
Rotherham’s final game of the season, before the play-offs, is a home game when Blackpool are the visitors to the New York Stadium. We should get something, we’re at home and flying high – but with nothing to play for Blackpool are on a run of five games without defeat so Saturday might not be as easy as we think.
Home Park
League One
28/04/2018 4:00 pm
Attendance: 13407
Referee: D Handley
Plymouth Argyle | Rotherham United | ||||||
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Grant (56), Carey (pen0 (90+1) | Towell (33) | ||||||
Matthews | Rodak | ||||||
Threlkeld | Emmanuel | ||||||
Sawyer | Purrington | ||||||
Vyner | Ihiekwe | ||||||
Bradley | Wood | ||||||
Fox | Vaulks | ||||||
Sarcevic (Ainsworth) | Forde (Taylor) | ||||||
Ness (Songo'o) | Towell | ||||||
Grant | Williams (Newell) | ||||||
Carey | Smith (Lavery) | ||||||
Lameiras (Taylor-Sinclair) | Ball | ||||||
Substitutes |
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Letheren | Price | ||||||
Miller | Ajayi | ||||||
Songo'o | Cummings | ||||||
Taylor-Sinclair | Newell | ||||||
Ainsworth | Palmer | ||||||
Rooney | Taylor | ||||||
Fletcher | Lavery |
Game Statistics |
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16 | Goal attempts | 9 |
6 | On Target | 7 |
4 | Corners | 5 |
6 | Fouls | 14 |
0 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
0 | Red Cards | 0 |
53 | % | 47 |