CHECH OUT: Head-to-Head – Millers v Tigers

Rotherham United travel to the MKM Stadium to take on Hull City for the next game in the Championship.

Last time the two teams met in Hull was on April Fool’s Day 2023 which, despite Rotherham going down to ten men on seventy-nine minutes after Domingos Quina was red carded, was goalless but the time before that was a Tuesday night in February 2019 which saw the hosts take an early lead thanks to Jarrod Bowen with Fraizer Campbell seeing City go into the break two-up. But the Millers fought back and when home ‘keeper David Marshall fumbled a shot from Jon Taylor there was Antony Forde to tap home just after half-time and seven minutes later another shot from Taylor hit Robbie McKenzie, wrong footing Marshall, and gave the visitors a point to take home.

It was the KC Stadium on the last game of the 2015/16 season that saw Rotherham the visitors – and the last game that Neil Warnock took charge of Rotherham. Lee Frecklington put the Millers in front on sixteen minutes but goals from Robert Snodgrass, Abel Hernandez, Jake Livermore (2) and Mohamed Diame gave Hull an emphatic win that sent them into the Championship play-offs.

Boothferry Park in November 1999 saw the pair meet before that on Hull soil. The game ended goalless in the League Three confrontation but the Millers ended up playing the whole of the second half with ten men. David Brown had stamped on Millers defender Guy Branston who took exception to this and kicked out at the forward who fell to the ground like he’d been pole axed (though knowing Big Guy this probably wasn’t just a tap to be fair). Referee Tony Leake only saw Branston’s part in the action and immediately took out a red from his pocket. Guy went down the tunnel and took his anger out on a door which ended with him having to have seventy stitches at hospital.

The last time the Millers won on Hull soil was in January 1996. The game was a four-one win to the visitors with the goals coming from Trevor Berry, Shaun Goater, Nik Viljoen and Shaun Goodwin. The Tigers consolation came from Greg Abbott.