Rotherham United’s long trek to take on Swindon Town yesterday saw them come away with nothing after losing two-one.

But let’s have a look at those stats

Formation – The Robins began the game with a 3-4-2-1 formation while Alex Bruce set his Millers side out as a 4-3-3

Possession and Attacking Threat

Hosts Swindon finished the game with almost seventy-four per cent possession while having twenty-two touches in their opponents box. Of their fifteen shots at goal four were on target and they had eight shots from outside the box. Town also had seven corners in the game.

The Millers had just over twenty-six per cent possession and had just three shots at goal of which two were on target and one of those from outside the box. Rotherham had eight touches in their opponents box and had no corners.

Passing Accuracy and Build Up Play

Swindon came out of the game with a massive five hundred and sixty-three total passes. Out of those there was an accuracy of slightly more than eighty per cent while they had one hundred and thirty-nine successful passes in the final third. Town played eighty-eight backward passes and one hundred and ninety one forward passes. Sky Sports says that they missed one big chance.

Visitors Rotherham played two hundred and eight total passes of which twenty-four were backward and one hundred and thirty-one were forward. Their had a passing accuracy of just over forty-eight per cent, playing seventy-eight long balls and had twenty-six successful passes in the final third.

Tackles won – Swindon 13 Rotherham 17

Fouls committed– Swindon 10 Rotherham 10

Yellow Cards– Swindon 0* Rotherham 2

Red Cards – There were three red cards shown in the game – one in each half for the Millers plus another one for visiting Head Coach Alex Bruce.

Ground Duels Won – Swindon 26 Rotherham 34

Ariel Duels Won– Swindon 30 Rotherham 17

Goalkeeper Saves – Swindon 1 Rotherham 2

* I was sure a Town player was booked after they scored their first goal for kicking the ball away?

TEAMS

Swindon- Ripley, Clark, Negru, Ball (Hungbo 42), Nichols (Palmer 60), Snowdon (Debayo 75), Drinan, Virtue, Thomson, Butler (McGregor 75), Kirkman

Subs Unused- Ward, Majekodunmi, Millard

Rotherham – Eyestone, Rafferty (Williams 55), Austerfield (Lolos 75), Ngwenya, Mullin (Bradshaw 75), Hall, Fitzgerald, Nemane (Sebine 55), Buyabu, Iorfa, Cover (Aljofree 55)

Subs Unused- Cann, Bradshaw, Agbaire