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Commentary
10¹A useful ball from HOLTBY on the left fell to GORDON who mishit his shot inches over.
13¹GORDON fired the ball through a ruck of players but UNNERSTALL was a match for it as he dived to his left.
17¹A twenty yard drive from DRMIC caused UNNERSTALL little difficulty.
20¹A left foot effort from GORDON was tipped over by the 'keeper.
21¹KALULU made space on the right and pulled the ball to BARLASER who fired the ball wide.
27¹A penalty box meleé resulted in VAN EWIJK driving a low shot wide.
29¹GOAL!! A wonderful bit of skill enabled BROJA to waltz through the Rotherham United defence and score. (1-0 Blackburn Rovers)
29¹HOLTBY booked.
30¹A cross from ORSIC left BARLASER in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
36¹OGBENE was put clear by KALULU and he raced past the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper but glanced his shot over.
42¹GOAL!! Unlucky ORSIC hit the crossbar before DJA DJEDJE stabbed the ball into the net as MORTON failed to clear. (1-1)
42¹GORDON beat ROBERTS and whacked the ball to BROJA who blasted his shot wide.
1²BROJA booted the ball wide from just inside the area.
2²Uncertainty in the Blackburn Rovers defence enabled ORSIC to blast an effort inches wide.
10²GORDON shot over.
13²BROJA ran onto a great ball from MORTON but toe-poked his effort wide of the righthand post.
14²GOAL!! An outswinging corner kicked out by VAN EWIJK was flicked into the net by KALULU. (2-1 Rotherham United)
15²A accurate pass found OGBENE and his left foot shot floated narrowly over.
30²GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from DJA DJEDJE shook the woodwork and in the ensuing scramble the ball was booted into the net by OGBENE. (3-1 Rotherham United)
36²A corner found VAN EWIJK who nodded the ball wide.
42²BARLASER fluffed an easy chance.
45²The stunned Blackburn Rovers 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from VAN EWIJK fell just over.
46²A tame shot from MORTON rolled agonisingly wide.
47²MIAZGA headed inches wide.
47²A free-kick from MORTON went just wide.

 
Rotherham United
 
League position: 1
Home league form: LWXW
Overall league form: LLWWXWWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Lars UNNERSTALL6½17 Christian WALTON
Connor ROBERTS6 28 Milan VAN EWIJK
Lewis HALL7 36½Dimitris GIANNOULIS
Brice DJA DJEDJE7 47½Joe ROTHWELL
Joe WORRALL7 56½Darragh LENIHAN
Matt MIAZGA7 66 Grant HANLEY
Dan BARLASER6 76½Lewis HOLTBY
Mislav ORSIC6 88½Anthony GORDON
(p)Aldo KALULU7 96½Armando BROJA(p)
(f)Percy TAU5½106 Tyler MORTON(f)
Chiedozie OGBENE7 116½Josip DRMIC(c)
Manager
Clark ROBERTSON  12  Ben BRERETON DÍAZ
Federico RAVAGLIA  13  Josh KEELEY
Joe NEWELL  146½Nick BLACKMAN
Ben WILES  15  Darnell FURLONG
Kristoffer PETERSON  16  John BUCKLEY
 
Blackburn Rovers
 
League position: 5
Away league form: WXXW
Overall league form: WWXXLXWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Rotherham United go through to the next round
Statistics
Rotherham United 3 Blackburn Rovers 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 24,913, Stadium: New York, Referee: Goran Markov 5½)

Dja Djedje 42¹, Kalulu 14², Ogbene 30²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Broja 29¹
 BrojaóBlackman 14²
  
 Holtby 29¹
01
185
10
34
89
1113
03
50%50%
Man of the match: Anthony Gordon