Next up for Rotherham United is a Vertu Trophy fixture when a Manchester City U21 side visit the New York Stadium.

Have We Met Before?

The Millers and Manchester City’s U21’s have met a couple of times in this competition in the past the first time being in August 2017. David Ball gave Rotherham the lead on 64 minutes with City equalising in time added on with a Benjamin Garre goal. The game went to penalties – the ABBA penalties – which City won 4-2.

The last time the pair met was in October 2021 when Will Grigg opened the scoring for the hosts 6 minutes into the 2nd half, Kieran Sadlier got a hat-trick and Jake Hull glanced home giving the Millers a 5-0 victory.

This Season

Going into this game the Millers have 3 points from two games – a 1-0 loss away at Bolton and a 3-2 home win against Oldham Athletic, the goals coming from Kian Spence, an own goal and a late Reece James effort.

Like the Millers the young Citizens have 3 points. They won their first game at Boundary Park against Oldham 5-1 with Mahamadou Sangare and Ashton Muir both scoring twice...