National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Rotherham United or Accrington Stanley that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Rotherham United form and stats
Rotherham was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the Carabao Cup.1 victory, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Rotherham United have to build on here at AESSEAL New York Stadium in the League One.
A nice win for Rotherham United last time playing, versus Plymouth Argyle. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Ben Wiles and Freddie Ladapo scoring for the victors. Wes Harding was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.0 out of 10. The defender Harding hit one key pass and won 8 of 11 duels.
Before that, Rotherham played out a Championship draw 1-1 when visiting Cardiff City.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Rotherham handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, one draw and two defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Rotherham as they are travelling to their away game against Wigan Athletic in the League One. That match is four days after this one.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Rotherham United at home in the league. 2 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Accrington Stanley form and stats
Last season their Carabao Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.0-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Accrington Stanley in their League One matches away.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Accrington Stanley, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-2 versus Wycombe Wanderers. The attacker Colby Bishop got a match rating of 7.34 in that game. Bishop hit one key pass.
Preceding that game was the away League One victory against Portsmouth with the score of 1-0.Accrington are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, seven draws and four defeats. From a total of 13 matches.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Cambridge United in just four days.
Accrington Stanley have the goal stats of 1-2 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Rotherham United-Accrington Stanley H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rotherham United eight wins, Accrington Stanley one win, one draw. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  B. Wiles 1 goals |  F. Ladapo 1 goals |   M. Butcher 1 goals |
Rotherham United missing players
Accrington Stanley missing players
| Rotherham United | Accrington Stanley | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 31 | 9 | Scored | S | 20 | 35 | ||
| 26 | 17 | Conceded | C | 25 | 44 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 84% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 60% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 24% | ||
| 36% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 24% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 20% | ||
| 5.4 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.9 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.1 | 5.3 | ||
| 1.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.5 | 10.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 13.6 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4.3 | ||
| 26% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 32% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rotherham United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | AFC Wimbledon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Sunderland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Wycombe Wanderers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Burton Albion | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Portsmouth | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Bolton Wanderers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Milton Keynes Dons | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Ipswich Town | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Morecambe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Cambridge United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Cheltenham Town | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Crewe Alexandra | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Gillingham | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Lincoln City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Oxford United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Charlton Athletic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Sheffield Wednesday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Accrington Stanley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 20 | Doncaster Rovers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 21 | Wigan Athletic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 22 | Fleetwood Town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 23 | Shrewsbury Town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 24 | Plymouth Argyle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |