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Taylor ‘Nothing You Can Do About The Weather’

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Rotherham United Manager Matt Taylor said that it was a ‘strange course of events’ that happened at the New York Stadium on Saturday.

Visitors Cardiff City had gone one up on just five minutes thanks to a goal from Aston Villa loanee Jaden Philogene but within a couple of minutes of the start of the second half referee Oliver Langford brought the players off the pitch as a deluge of rain filled the pitch and the ball couldn’t be kicked. The game was initially suspended but after two more pitch inspection as the game should have been coming to a close it was abandoned with the corners of the pitch looking like a lake and the sides like rivers.

‘It wasn’t forecast,’ the Millers Boss told Radio Sheffield, ‘and as the ball was getting stuck and the water not draining through the referee made the correct decision. Sometimes there is nothing you can do about the weather. It was a downpour like we have never seen. I sympathise with their journey and their fans.’

Going on to talk about what bit of the game we played, Matt said, ‘I was concentrating on improving the team which, in all honesty, we had to do. I made a tactical change on forty minutes and two more at half-time and I was disappointed that we had to change the game at that stage due to our own performance.

‘Then we’ve had no control over the weather but what we can control is that the next time we play our performance levels improve.

‘Confidence in low at the moment and you could see in our performance that it wasn’t going our way but we have to understand we are in control of our own destiny and we have to be more up and at ’em. A few individuals seem shaky in their own game and that’s when you can get caught in possession, make the wrong decision so maybe this break is what some of them actually need.’

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