Match Stats

Those Stats – Millers v Cheltenham

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Rotherham United were back to winning ways yesterday with a one-nil home win over Cheltenham Town which Millers Manager Paul Warne said was ‘hard fought’.

But what do the stats tell us?

The first thing we see is that we had forty-eight per cent possession with the Robins having fifty-two per cent. Having taller players than us I don’t think it’s much of a surprise that Cheltenham also won fifty-six per cent of the aerial duels although the Millers did come out with fifty-five per cent of ALL duels.

Paul Warne’s men had six corners to the oppositions two and our passing accuracy n our opponents half was just a little better than theirs at fifty-six per cent to fifty-four. Attack wise we had ten shots at goal, of which eight were outside the box, with two on target while Town had two on target from five shots.

Cheltenham conceded twenty fouls to our eleven and had four players yellow carded.

One thing I questioned today – it was obvious that they had tall players on the pitch so why did we put on Ferguson, Lindsay and Grigg from the bench, all who as footballers I like and respect, but not the tallest are they? I’d have had JJ on for the last fifteen or twenty minutes give us a bit of presence in the box.

Rotherham United
1 – 0
Cheltenham Town

New York Stadium

League One

22/01/2022 3:00 pm

Attendance: 9187

Referee: Oliver Langford

Rotherham United Cheltenham Town
Smith (24)
Vickers Evans
Wood Boyle
 
Harding Pollock
Ihiekwe Long (Raglan 4)
Ogbene Blair
Miller (Ferguson 75) Freestone
Rathbone (Lindsay 83) Sercombe
 
Barlaser Wright
Wiles Thomas
 
Smith N'Lundulu (Etete 70)
 
Ladapo (Grigg 88) May (A Ramsey 62)

Substitutes

Johansson Flinders
Edmonds-Green Raglan
Odoffin Williams
Ferguson Bond
Lindsay A Ramsey
Grigg Brown
Kayode Etete

Game Statistics

10 Goal attempts 5
2 On Target 2
6 Corners 2
11 Fouls 20
0 Yellow Cards 4
0 Red Cards 0
48 % 52

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