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Commentary

1¹ A clever cross from HIRST was lashed goalbound by OGBENE only for the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper to claw away. 6¹ WOODBURN beat ROBERTS and drove the ball to LOWERY who fired his effort wide. 7¹ JOHANSSON did well to hold onto a wicked shot from LUIS. 8¹ A twenty-five yard shot from LUIS caused the 'keeper little difficulty. 10¹ A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming PATTERSON. 16¹ GOAL!! A cross from BRAMALL was headed away by NYAMBE only for AYEW to crack the ball back into the box for HIRST to force over the line. (1-0 Rotherham United) 27¹ A drive from AYEW seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to fist the ball clear. 29¹ WOODBURN played the ball to BROWN who fired it over. 35¹ A delightful strike from AYEW was dealt with by a good parry from the 'keeper. 44¹ SZMODICS's shot beat PATTERSON but rebounded off the Crewe Alexandra crossbar. 0² BROWN whacked a deadly shot inches wide from just outside the area. 1² HIRST snapped at an easy chance. 4² GOAL!! A long ball from NYAMBE down the middle found the lurking LUIS who hit a deadly shot into the roof of the net. (1-1) 6² A penalty box scramble resulted in SZMODICS tapping the ball wide. 9² GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from AYEW allowed HOLDING to lay a perfect ball off to SZMODICS who struck the ball home. (2-1 Rotherham United) 13² A pin-point pass bobbled toward ROBERTS and his deadly shot floated narrowly over. 21² A weak shot from HIRST trickled agonisingly wide. 25² LUIS was put clear by NYAMBE and he nutmegged JOHANSSON but rammed his shot wide. 29² BRAMALL shot wide. 35² SZMODICS ran onto a delightful ball from OGBENE but fumbled his shot wide. 38² HIRST nodded the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area. 40² The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from BRAMALL dropped just wide. 41² PATTERSON dived to his right to stop an accurate drive from Rotherham United's OGBENE.

Rotherham United   League position: 6 Home league form: WXWW Overall league form: WLWXXWWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Viktor JOHANSSON 6½ 1 6  Anthony PATTERSON Hakeem ODOFFIN 7  2 7  Yan VALERY Cohen BRAMALL 6½ 3 7  Philip HEISE Patrick ROBERTS 6½ 4 7  Tom LOWERY Rob HOLDING 7½ 5 6  Ryan NYAMBE Jaroslaw JACH 6½ 6 6  Harlee DEAN Chiedozie OGBENE 7½ 7 7½ Jarrod BOWEN(c) Sammie SZMODICS 8  8 6½ Ben WOODBURN (p)George HIRST 7½ 9 5  Jacob BROWN(p) (f)Nathangelo MARKELO 6½ 10 6  Anthony KNOCKAERT(f) (c)André AYEW 7½ 11 5½ LUIS Fernández Manager Shane FERGUSON    12    Cheick KEITA Jamal BLACKMAN    13    Bailey PEACOCK-FARRELL Tom EAVES    14 6  Reggie CANNON Conor WASHINGTON    15    Pape SOUARÉ Ben WILES    16    Billy SASS-DAVIES

Crewe Alexandra   League position: 7 Away league form: LXWW Overall league form: LXXWWLWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Rotherham United 2 Crewe Alexandra 1 (Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 11,475, Stadium: New York, Referee: Peter Walton 7½) Hirst 16¹, Szmodics 9² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Luis 4²   LoweryóCannon 12²         4 3 8 8 2 3 8 3 7 5 15 8 4 2 60% 40% ¶ Man of the match: Sammie Szmodics ¶