Huddersfield Town 2-1 Rotherham United: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 27 September 2016
Result
Huddersfield Town 2-1 Rotherham United
Championship · Tuesday 27 September 2016, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
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Huddersfield Town 2-1 Rotherham United: match report
Huddersfield Town beat Rotherham United 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 27 September 2016. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Elias Kachunga opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Huddersfield Town's goals came from Elias Kachunga (2') and N. Wells (38'). Rotherham United scored through Danny Ward (34').
Discipline: Huddersfield Town received 3 yellow cards; Rotherham United received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Huddersfield Town were 7th on 15 points from 9 and Rotherham United 23rd on 6 points from 9. Huddersfield Town went on to finish that season 5th with 80 points, and Rotherham United 24th with 23.
Huddersfield Town lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rotherham United in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kasey Palmer of Huddersfield Town (7.8), ahead of Dean Whitehead (7.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Huddersfield Town win, 2 draws and 1 for Rotherham United.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Elias Kachunga
- 34'Goal · Danny Ward
- 38'Goal · N. Wells
- 43'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
- 53'Yellow card · Sean Scannell
- 68'Yellow card · Joe Newell
- 87'Yellow card · Jack Payne
Head-to-head
Team news
Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)
Danny Ward, Tommy Smith, Michael Hefele, Christopher Schindler, Tareiq Holmes-Dennis, Dean Whitehead, Aaron Mooy, Sean Scannell, Kasey Palmer, Elias Kachunga, Nahki Wells
Rotherham United line-up (4-4-1-1)
Lee Camp, Darnell Fisher, Dael Fry, Dominic Ball, Joe Mattock, Jon Taylor, Tom Adeyemi, Lee Frecklington, Joe Newell, Isaiah Brown, Daniel Ward