Rotherham United lost to Southampton at the New York Stadium yesterday – but what to the stats say?
Firstly they tell us that the Millers got twenty-six per cent of the possession – I am quite impressed with that as, after the first half an hour, I could see it being in single figures. We were six per cent better in the duels getting fifty-three per cent while it was equal in the ariel possession.
There were thirteen corners in the game yesterday the Millers getting three. Our passing accuracy in our opponents half was fifty-three per cent – Southampton’s seventy-nine per cent.
In attack we had eight shots on goal, four of those inside the box, of which two were on target while the Saints had seven on target from ten shots.
Our tackle success rate came out at sixty-three per cent, nineteen per cent worse off that our visitors while we conceded eight fouls to their ten and both yellow cards were shown to Southampton.
I do think we played better in the second half yesterday – but I won’t go as far as say we played well – we even forced the Saints into a couple of passages of sloppy play. But this is the Championship and we aren’t going to get many chances so when we do we have to take them (aka Maidstone United against Ipswich). I’d like to think if we’d got one goal we’d have gone on to get another – sometimes, though, thinking is overrated.
New York Stadium
Championship
3/02/2024 4:00 pm
Attendance: 11179
Referee: Sunny Sukhvir Gill
| Rotherham United | Southampton | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bednarek (4), A Armstrong (38) | |||||||
| Johansson | Bazunu | ||||||
| Kioso (Appiah 85) | Walker-Peters | ||||||
| Revan (Seriki 85) | Manning | ||||||
| Peltier | Harewood-Bellis | ||||||
| Morrison | Bednarek | ||||||
| Odoffin | Downes (Rothwell 73) | ||||||
| Lindsay (Rathbone 61) | Smallbone | ||||||
| Tiehi | S Armstrong (Charles 89) | ||||||
| Clucas | Adams (Mara 81) | ||||||
| Cafu (Eaves 88) | A Armstrong | ||||||
| Hugill (Nombe 62) | Fraser (Brooks 74) | ||||||
Substitutes |
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| Phillips | Lumley | ||||||
| Humphreys | Meghoma | ||||||
| Rinomhota | Stephens | ||||||
| Seriki | Charles | ||||||
| Rathbone | Dibling | ||||||
| Appiah | Edozie | ||||||
| Eaves | Rothwell | ||||||
| Nombe | Brooks | ||||||
| Wyke | Mara | ||||||
Game Statistics |
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| 8 | Goal attempts | 10 |
| 2 | On Target | 7 |
| 3 | Corners | 10 |
| 8 | Fouls | 10 |
| 0 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 26 | % | 74 |