Match Thread Rotherham United vs. Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 5th Oct (6 Viewers)

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clint van damme

clint van damme

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Day not off to a good start.
Trains to Brum cancelled until 9.30.
Will miss connecting train - in the words of Lloyd Bridges - I picked a bad day to give up glue sniffing.
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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Can't see Kastaneer lasting 90 minutes.
Wonder who he'll play there for the last 20 minutes or so?
 
ccfcchris

ccfcchris

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Saturday’s League One action sees Rotherham United going up against Coventry City at the New York Stadium. A close game is expected to be in order as both sides fight for the points on offer.

After dropping down from the Championship with a reasonably strong squad for League One level on paper, Rotherham were expected to be amongst the contenders for promotion but the side haven’t made a good start to the campaign. Indeed, after 9 matches Paul Warne’s troops have only managed to take 12 points and that has them coming into this game stationed in 13th place.

Rotherham really haven’t been in great form of late and they need to start picking things up, or questions are going to be asked. They’ve now won just 1 of their last 7 games and even that came against struggling Bolton and whilst there’s clearly quality present in their team and the potential to be doing much better; it’s results on the pitch that count and The Millers simply have to start winning sooner rather than later.

Nonetheless, with Coventry City in town that won’t be an easy task this weekend, with the visitors arriving with their tails firmly up. Indeed, after some smart summer recruitment, The Sky Blues look to have constructed a squad that could give a promotion push a real go and early signs are very promising.

Alongside Ipswich, Coventry are League One’s only unbeaten outfit and have taken an impressive 20 points from 10 games. Many often state that if you win your home games and draw away you’ll be there or thereabouts come the end of the season and that’s something Mark Robins’ troops have followed almost to the letter in the action we’ve seen so far; winning 5 of their 6 home outings and drawing all 4 of their games on the road.

Ultimately, this fixture looks like one of the more interesting matches in League One this weekend and it should be a very competitive game. On the one hand, Rotherham would normally be expecting to win this type of match but they aren’t really playing to full capability at the moment, whilst on the other, Coventry arrive proving very hard to beat and will view this game as a good test of their credentials.

All things considered, we find these two too difficult to separate and feel that backing a draw is the best way to play as far as the betting is concerned. As impressive as Coventry have been this season, they’re unlikely to end their streak of away draws in this trip to Yorkshire and Rotherham still represent a tough team to travel to, despite their issues and that has us believing a 0-0 draw could well be on the cards.

https://www.freesupertips.com/previ...ntry-predictions-betting-tips-match-previews/
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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If we aren’t losing I’d like to see Bapaga get 20 mins. It’s the one downside to the strength in depth is lack of opportunities for young players and when better than early on when we are doing well?
 
Adge

Adge

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Need the 3 points really-a draw obviously means we are unbeaten still but I would have preferred a loss v Doncaster and three points today or vice versa.
 
Philosoraptor

Philosoraptor

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Putting a string of wins together would be nice. Saying that I would settle quite easily with around a two point average per game.

Just feel we need to put some more points away for insurance for when we do lose a few. That's if the current form continues throughout the season.

It definitely feels like we are up there contending with the automatic promotion places but there's a long way to go yet.
 
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Manchester_sky_blue

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Seems an odd bench given that we could have put either of Wakefield or Bapaga in the squad as cover for Kastaneer. Or could have had Biamou in there to go 4-4-2
 
skyblueelephant76

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Manchester_sky_blue said:
Seems an odd bench given that we could have put either of Wakefield or Bapaga in the squad as cover for Kastaneer. Or could have had Biamou in there to go 4-4-2
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Biamou is injured. O'Hare could go wide if needed with Kelly or Westbrooke going into the middle. Baka can also go wide left so there are options
 
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