Rotherham United welcome Derby County to the New York Stadium in one of two blockbuster picks of rearranged Sky Bet Championship matches on Wednesday evening.
This fixture takes place just over a month after a Coronavirus outbreak within Rotherham’s squad forced the match to be postponed from its original date just over a hour before kick-off.
Rotherham can climb out of the relegation zone with victory and drop Nottingham Forest into the drop zone, whereas Derby could go 17th with victory.
Team News
Rotherham manager, Paul Warne is set to rotate his Millers as Dan Barlaser returns after self-isolating, in which he missed their last two matches.
Chiedozie Ogbene (knee), Kieran Sadlier (ankle) and Florian Jozefzoon (fitness) remain absent.
Derby will be without Krystian Bielik after the midfielder suffered a knee injury in Saturday’s win over Bristol City.
Tom Lawrence (ankle) could feature if fit but Jack Stretton (groin) and Curtis Davies (Achilles) are still ruled out.
Stat Attack
- Rotherham are unbeaten in three of last five meetings against Derby (W2, D1, L2).
- Derby have won just one of their last five league trips to Rotherham (W1, D3, L1).
- Matt Crooks has scored three goals in two of his last three home league appearances for Rotherham (W1, D1, L1).
Prediction
Rotherham certainly aren’t an easy team to take on because they seem a well-balanced team even though their defensive record isn’t the best, meaning that the opposition must be switched on at all times as Stoke and Middlesbrough have recently discovered.
Derby meanwhile have won their last three outings by single goals so will be keen to keep things tight, although I have a feeling that Rotherham will try and force them to come out and play attacking football more than they would like.
This though is a relegation six-pointer because if Rotherham win then Derby are right back in the relegation scrap, which I genuinely can see happening because Derby either need to start finding two goals in a match or their recent run of 1-0 wins will be halted sooner or later.
Prediction: Rotherham 1-1 Derby
Result: Rotherham 3-0 Derby
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