It’s another away day for Norwich. We’re off to Rotherham’s New York Stadium for a Saturday 15:00 kick off. Rotherham have a solitary point so far in the Championship leaving them in 21st position. That point came in a home draw vs Blackburn in Round 2. The losses have come via Leicester, Sunderland and Stoke City, who also convincingly knocked them out of the League Cup on Tuesday night 6-1. The Millers like to play a dynamic 442 / 433 formation with our own Jordan Hugill up top. They will be without Georgie Kelly, Shane Ferguson, Tom Eaves, Grant Hall, Jamie Lindsay and Lee Peltier all sidelined through injury. New signing – striker Sam Nombe may get a bench start opportunity though. Norwich’s only enforced change this week will be Sargent’s absence. Spare a thought for the headline writers who have been robbed of a potential New York Stadium / Sargent pun opportunity. Decision time whether we lean on Idah and Barnes for 90 mins or look to the academy (TD-P) or more likely, one of our attacking mids to help up top. Head-to-head, Norwich has the advantage over Rotherham. Since year 2000, Rotherham have managed one victory over Norwich (during the 2016/17 season). Again, Norwich dominate the Whoscored rankings for these two teams. There is just one Rotherham player Lee Peltier (now injured) in the combined top 10. This fixture last season was a 2-1 victory for Norwich featuring a howler from Sara, but goals from other midfielders gave us the points that day. Rotherham’s stats don’t look great, but, Stoke-aside, they’ve had some tight games against relatively tough opposition early in the season. Norwich will have the chance to make this three away wins in the space of 7 days if we get things right in South Yorkshire. We’ll be looking for three points and hopefully the chance to extend our three consecutive clean sheets playing away from home as well. Good luck everyone. OTBC.
Still going HMQC, and long may it last. Edit:- it was only a year or so ago that I realised your user name was quite, until then I thought it was quiet. Sorry.
Last time I went to an away game at Rotherham, "Mellow Yellow" was high in the charts. Don't remember anything about the game, only that we stopped at a cafe in Newark on the way up to Millmoor and sang along. Must have been late 60s.
Excellence again Quiet Canary! Long may it last! My guess is Núñez coming on for Idah, or maybe Rowe moving to CAM and Springett coming on WL.
Rotherham signed two new players, breaking their transfer with both of them. What is the eligibility of new players to start for their new club? I saw it mentioned somewhere that Hwang and Batth are not eligible to play for us today.
I think the players needed to be signed by midday yesterday to be able to be registered for todays game
Forshaw is starting for the under21s this morning so he won’t be in the squad. No sign of TDP in their squad so I imagine he will be on the bench today
Feel any more confident today Canary Rob? I see this game being more difficult than Huddersfield was last week but see City as being more than capable of taking all 3 points again
We've won each of our last 5 games at Rotherham 2-1. Rowe's call up to the England U20s and goals in each of the first 5 games must give him a huge confidence boost for this one. Idah and Barnes have 2 each and Fassnacht has one so far as he adjusts to the team.
