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The second only cup meeting between the 2 sides.

Vital Quotes:

Peterborough Manager Keith Alexander told posh.com
This tie will be ‘Extremely difficult’ but promises to give it a good go against higher league opposition.

‘I know Alan Knill well and he has worked miracles because they obviously started the season with a 10 points deficit’.
‘He has made good signings and it will be an extremely difficult game for us’.
‘It could not have been much harder, but it is a cup match so anything could happen’.

Peterborough United Team News:

Posh winger Adam Newton has missed the last 2 games with a calf strain but he’s expected to back on Saturday.

Striker Simon Yeo will again be sidelined, and the groin strain picked up by midfielder Peter Gain rules him out.

Player to watch: Trevor Benjamin

The much travelled striker, currently with his 14th club, has pitched in with 9 goals this season.

The 27 year old, 6ft 2in powerhouse who was transferred for £1.5 Million from Cambridge to Leicester in 2000, scored against Premiership club Everton in Posh’s Carling cup defeat in September, and has hit good form with 4 goals in his last 6 games.

Rotherham United Team News:

The main injury problem is Gregor Robertson who is frustrated by the knee injury which has left him sidelined for the last month.
He told Millersworld today,
‘I strained the medial ligament where it attaches to the bone so it just felt weakened inside so I struggled to twist and turn. I came back to training on Tuesday, I still feel a little bit but your going to for a wee bit, but I’m back in training.’ he added.

Elsewhere, Martin Woods and Eugen Bopp are available for selection again after serving their, 3 match and 1 match suspensions respectively.

Player to watch: Neil Cutler

The star of the show in last Saturdays creditable draw at Carlisle.
He made numerous saves to keep the Millers unbeaten league run going and is currently Rotherham’s number one keeper after sharing Goalkeeping duties last season with Gary Montgomery.

Match Facts & Stats

Both sides have excellent current form ratings with each claiming 4 wins and a draw in their last 6 league games.

Rotherham have a pretty good history at Peterborough with 5 wins and 3 draws out of 13 league games.

The total record is….

Millmoor P 13 W 4 D 8 L 1 GOALS 21-11
London r P 13 W 5 D 3 L 5 GOALS 23-18

The 2 clubs have only met once before in any of the Cup competitions and that day Peterborough came out on top with a 1-0 FA Cup 3rd round win at Millmoor in January 1970.
Jimmy Hall scoring the games only goal for Posh.

League Results

Division Two
05.05.2001 Peterborough Utd 1-1 Rotherham Utd
25.11.2000 Rotherham Utd 3-0 Peterborough Utd

Division Three
25.03.2000 Rotherham Utd 1-1 Peterborough Utd
26.12.1999 Peterborough Utd 0-5 Rotherham Utd
20.03.1999 Rotherham Utd 2-2 Peterborough Utd
31.10.1998 Peterborough Utd 2-4 Rotherham Utd
31.01.1998 Peterborough Utd 1-0 Rotherham Utd
13.09.1997 Rotherham Utd 2-2 Peterborough Utd

Division Two
30.11.1996 Peterborough Utd 6-2 Rotherham Utd
26.10.1996 Rotherham Utd 2-0 Peterborough Utd
16.12.1995 Peterborough Utd 1-0 Rotherham Utd
30.09.1995 Rotherham Utd 5-1 Peterborough Utd
04.03.1995 Rotherham Utd 0-0 Peterborough Utd
24.09.1994 Peterborough Utd 2-2 Rotherham Utd

Division Four
04.04.1989 Rotherham Utd 1-1 Peterborough Utd
07.01.1989 Peterborough Utd 0-3 Rotherham Utd

Division Three
01.05.1979 Rotherham Utd 1-1 Peterborough Utd
16.04.1979 Peterborough Utd 1-1 Rotherham Utd
08.04.1978 Peterborough Utd 1-0 Rotherham Utd
12.11.1977 Rotherham Utd 0-1 Peterborough Utd
22.01.1977 Rotherham Utd 0-0 Peterborough Utd
21.08.1976 Peterborough Utd 0-2 Rotherham Utd
06.04.1976 Rotherham Utd 1-1 Peterborough Utd
27.09.1975 Peterborough Utd 1-3 Rotherham Utd

Division Four
11.05.1974 Rotherham Utd 3-1 Peterborough Utd
25.03.1974 Peterborough

Ref Watch:

The FA Cup first round game between Peterborough and Rotherham on Saturday November 11th will be officiated by Patrick Miller from Bedfordshire.

This is Mr Miller’s 2nd season on the National Referee’s list.

He has taken charge at 2 previous Miller’s games.

On 25th March 2006 at Millmoor in the 3-1 victory over Bristol City he booked just 1 player.

City’s Louis Carey was the unfortunate player.

This season he took charge of our 2-1 win over Tranmere at Millmoor on September 12th, the game which saw us get rid of the minus points millstone.

2 players were booked, Pablo Mills for the Millers and former Rotherham star John Mullin for Rovers.

Patrick Miller’s cards record is as follows.

2005-06 26 Games 69 Yellows 2 Reds

2006-07 11 Games 25 Yellows 1 Red (up to 28th Oct)

94 Yellows in 37 Games at 2.54 per game.

He will be assisted by A.M.Newbold + I.A.Evans

4th official will be G.Mellor

Match Prediction:

The in-form Millers to edge out the in-form Posh.
2-1 to Rotherham.

Next Fixtures:

Saturday November 18th 2006 at Millmoor

ROTHERHAM UNITED V NOTTINGHAM FOREST

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