Bristol City vs Rotherham predictions: City to sign off at home with routine win
- Bristol City are unbeaten in six matches
- Rotherham are without an away win all season
- Recommended bet: Bristol City win & Under 3.5 goals
Bristol City bid farewell to Ashton Gate for the season with a visit from relegated Rotherham in the Championship on Saturday.
City are on a six-game unbeaten streak and playing some decent football, while Rotherham have not scored in four matches and will hope new boss Steve Evans can inspire some overdue magic before the end of term.
Team news
Liam Manning may bring back Matt James in midfield, though he must be tempted to stick with the same players in the same 3-4-3 used to boss Norwich in a 1-1 draw at Carrow Road last weekend.
Evans deployed a midfield diamond in his first game back in charge of Rotherham and may have to tweak it already with Cafu injured. Arvin Appiah could return for a first start since before Christmas.
Right-back Peter Tioso is a doubt. Lee Peltier could move there with Grant Hall returning to central defence, or Seb Revan could switch and allow Cohen Bramall to start on the left.
The stats
Thirty-five of City's 44 Championship matches this season have produced three goals or fewer.
City are unbeaten in six matches in which they have conceded only two goals, and eight of their last 12 home matches have produced one goal or less.
Rotherham are the only team in the EFL yet to win an away match this season. They have not won on their travels – in any competition – since November 2022, a run of 38 away matches.
The Millers have gone 533 minutes since they last scored an away goal, and they have failed to score in nine of their last 10 matches.
Prediction
Evans is back to breathe some fire into Rotherham, but the Scot should not be expecting any miracles between now and the end of a wretched season.
Evans' first fixture back in the New York Stadium dugout was a horrible 0-0 draw against Birmingham, a game of few chances and little quality.
His second match back since leaving Stevenage is at Bristol City, a better side than Birmingham, who are playing nicely at the back end of a season that never quite promised more than the mid-table finish they are banking.
Manning's men are unbeaten in six, a run that includes a 1-0 win over Leicester, a 5-0 dismantling of Blackburn and last week's 1-1 draw at Norwich, which had Canaries' boss David Wagner singing City's praises.
They have been generally decent at home this season, taking some top scalps, but goals are scarce.
Take them to beat a Rotherham team who are game but limited, in a low-scorer.
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