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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sun 01.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Den (20146 seats)

Millwall - Rotherham United. 8th position welcomes 20th position. Nothing is certain - get a full overview of the game here!

Insights:
  • Millwall have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Championship
  • Rotherham United have the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in Championship

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.

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Millwall form and stats

24 points is a decent return from 12 Championship games here at The Den for Millwall. The data says 7 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. Three draws in a row here at The Den for Millwall, who might be willing to risk more at some point in hope of a win.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper George Long not having conceded a league goal in 237 minutes.

The spoils were shared in Millwall's previous game, also at home. Visiting Bristol City (placed 18th) travelled back with a draw after a 0-0 scoreline. Long, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.64 out of 10 in that game. Long topped it up with a clean sheet.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Watford and winning 2-0.

The Millwall fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 17 in 12 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Millwall have conceded only 8 goals.

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Rotherham United form and stats

There's been little loot from Rotherham United's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 13 away games in the Championship. Rotherham United only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 5 draws. Rotherham United seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Rotherham United are travelling again after losing away to Huddersfield Town in their previous match (0-2). Rathbone got a match rating of 7.34 in that game, top player of the team. Rathbone hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Stoke City.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 13 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 19 goals have been conceded by Rotherham in these games.

Head 2 Head

Millwall have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (2-2-0) when facing Rotherham United.

Millwall and Rotherham United have faced off before this season: Rotherham United - Millwall 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

MillwallZ. Flemming
Z. Flemming
9 goals
Rotherham UnitedC. Ogbene
C. Ogbene
6 goals
MillwallT. Bradshaw
T. Bradshaw
4 goals

Millwall missing players

Rotherham United missing players

Millwall Rotherham United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 12 6 Played P 6 13 25
10 7 3 Won W 1 2 6
6 3 3 Drew D 2 5 9
8 2 0 Lost L 3 6 10
29 17 7 Scored S 4 8 28
26 8 2 Conceded C 10 19 36
88% 83% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 85% 92%
79% 75% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 62% 80%
38% 33% 17% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 38% 48%
12% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 17% 15% 24%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 8% 8%
38% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 31% 48%
33% 50% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 31% 28%
42% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 54% 32%
 
4.6 4.3 5.7 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 2.5 3.6
3.8 3.7 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 8.2 7.5 6.5
1.7 1.1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.8 3 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
13.1 13.7 14.7 Shots (avg) S ( 6.2 5.5 8.2
4.2 4.8 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 1.7 2.8
29% 30% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 36% 41%
 
10.5 8.3 6.2 Shots against (avg) S A 16.2 17.2 14.6
3.3 2.6 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.2 5.8 5.1
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Millwall have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Millwall have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Rotherham United have scored away.
  • Millwall have the fewest conceded goals (8) at home in Championship
  • Millwall have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Championship
  • Rotherham United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Rotherham United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Rotherham United have the fewest scored goals (8) away in Championship
  • Rotherham United have the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in Championship
  • Rotherham United have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Burnley 24 14 8 2 49 24 13 9 4 0 29 11 11 5 4 2 20 13 25 50
2 Sheffield United 25 15 5 5 43 22 12 7 3 2 26 12 13 8 2 3 17 10 21 50
3 Blackburn Rovers 25 13 0 12 29 30 12 8 0 4 19 13 13 5 0 8 10 17 -1 39
4 Sunderland 25 10 7 8 37 28 12 4 4 4 16 13 13 6 3 4 21 15 9 37
5 Watford 24 10 7 7 30 24 12 6 2 4 17 12 12 4 5 3 13 12 6 37
6 Middlesbrough 25 10 6 9 38 32 12 5 5 2 17 12 13 5 1 7 21 20 6 36
7 Luton Town 24 9 9 6 29 25 12 3 7 2 16 13 12 6 2 4 13 12 4 36
8 Millwall 24 10 6 8 29 26 12 7 3 2 17 8 12 3 3 6 12 18 3 36
9 West Bromwich Albion 25 9 8 8 33 26 13 5 4 4 19 14 12 4 4 4 14 12 7 35
10 Norwich City 24 10 5 9 31 27 12 5 3 4 18 14 12 5 2 5 13 13 4 35
11 Queens Park Rangers 25 10 5 10 27 30 12 5 2 5 15 16 13 5 3 5 12 14 -3 35
12 Reading 24 11 2 11 28 34 12 8 1 3 18 12 12 3 1 8 10 22 -6 35
13 Coventry City 24 9 7 8 26 25 12 6 3 3 14 9 12 3 4 5 12 16 1 34
14 Preston North End 25 9 7 9 23 26 13 3 4 6 8 14 12 6 3 3 15 12 -3 34
15 Birmingham City 24 8 8 8 26 25 12 4 5 3 16 12 12 4 3 5 10 13 1 32
16 Swansea City 24 8 8 8 31 34 11 5 2 4 15 14 13 3 6 4 16 20 -3 32
17 Stoke City 24 8 6 10 28 32 11 3 3 5 13 16 13 5 3 5 15 16 -4 30
18 Bristol City 25 7 7 11 31 34 13 4 3 6 14 14 12 3 4 5 17 20 -3 28
19 Cardiff City 25 7 7 11 20 28 13 4 4 5 10 11 12 3 3 6 10 17 -8 28
20 Rotherham United 25 6 9 10 28 36 12 4 4 4 20 17 13 2 5 6 8 19 -8 27
21 Hull City 24 7 6 11 27 41 13 4 2 7 13 22 11 3 4 4 14 19 -14 27
22 Huddersfield Town 24 7 4 13 23 30 13 5 2 6 12 12 11 2 2 7 11 18 -7 25
23 Blackpool 25 6 7 12 27 37 12 3 2 7 13 18 13 3 5 5 14 19 -10 25
24 Wigan Athletic 25 6 6 13 25 42 13 2 3 8 10 24 12 4 3 5 15 18 -17 24

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The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.