Our prediction for this Championship match:
St. Andrew’s Stadium will host Saturday’s football game between Birmingham City and Rotherham United, the two teams who are almost level on points in the danger zone. The Blues do not seem to be at their sharpest, with the team collecting only one point in total from the last five league fixtures, but this game could be the turning point for John Eustace’s troops. Fit-again midfielder Reda Khadra is pushing for a start, while all Sanderson, Deeney, Bielik, Williams, Bellingham, Campbell, and Placheta miss out with injuries.
The Millers, meanwhile, have been showing signs of improvement of late, with the team beating both Sunderland and QPR, while sharing the spoils with Swansea City. Anyhow, Rotherham and Birmingham seem to be evenly matched at the moment, and we are tempted to put our money on draw. The visitors will be without Domingos Quina, Grant Hall, Sean Morrison, and Ben Wiles in Saturday’s clash.
Highlighted Player (Troy Deeney):
Troy Deeney started his professional career in 2006 at Walsall. The prolific attacker scored 27 goals in 123 appearances for the club and in 2010 he went on to sign a contract with Watford. He joined the Hornets for a fee of £500,000 and it has to be noted that he scored only two goals for the team in the 2010/2011 Championship campaign.
However, as time went by he was raising his form and in the 2014/2015 the English attacker scored 21 goals for Watford and helped the team secure promotion to the Premier League. Troy Deeney was playing an important role in Quique Sanchez Flores’ team on their return to the English top flight and he bagged no fewer than 13 goals in the 2015/2016 season.
Deeney was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, on 29 June, 1988 and he has two children, Myles, a son, and a daughter Amelia. His brother Ellis is a football player as well, but he plays as a midfielder. The striker has also spent some time in prison, but has since seriously improved his behaviour.
Highlighted Team (Rotherham):
Rotherham United are an English club that compete in the Championship. Rotherham United are located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and they play their home games at New York Stadium and the capacity of the venue is 12,021.
The club was founded in 1925 as a merger between Rotherham County and Rotherham Town. The colour of Rotherham’s home kit was originally yellow and black, but nowadays they were red and white jerseys. The Millers made it to the FA Cup fifth round on two occasions (1952/1953, 1967/1968) and they have yet to play in the Premier League.
Rotherham United have won the Football League One twice (1950/1951, 1980/1981), but the club’s biggest success is participation in the 1960/1961 League Cup final. Sheffield United are regarded as Rotherham United’s fiercest rivals, but the likes of Sheffield Wednesday and Doncaster could be considered Rotherham’s big rivals as well.