The final game of the season for Cardiff. And it could be Rotherham's last day in the Championship with anything less than a win for the Millers resulting in relegation. Cardiff welcome back lee Tomlin and Sol Bamba to the matchday squad while we keep the same starting XI that won at Birmingham last time out.
Rotherham have to win, and hope that Derby don't win.
Only one of three teams can stay up. As it stands Derby can save themselves. The others are hoping Derby don't win. Sheff Weds can stop that as they play Derby at Pride Park.
Derby will stay up if they win.
Derby will also stay up if they draw and Rotherham don't win.
Rotherham will stay up if they win and Derby don't.
Sheff Weds will stay up if they win and Rotherham don't win.
Sheff Weds could win and still be relegated if Rotherham win at CCS.
Cardiff City XI: Phillips; Pack, Flint, Nelson; Ng, Bacuna, Ralls, Brown; Wilson, Colwill, Moore.
Subs: Smithies, Bamba, Bowen, Williams, Evans, Tomlin, Ojo, Murphy, Harris.
Rotherham United XI: Blackman; Ihiekwe, A. MacDonald, Wood, Harding; Jozefzoon, Wiles, Wing, Giles; Crooks, Smith.
Subs: Johansson, Mattock, Olosunde, S. MacDonald, Lindsay, Barlaser, Sadlier, Ogbene, Ladapo.
Mick McCarthy: "I think Paul Warne's teams play that way anyway, they give everything.
"It's a bit like us, we are not going out to show everybody how to play a wonderful game of football, we are going out to win it.
"Warney's teams have been great, I really like Paul, but unfortunately as much as I like him we will be going tooth and nail to win the game as well."
Rotherham United boss Paul Warne: “Which ever team they put out will be a formidable opponent for us, so we just have to be at our very best and try and keep ourselves in this league, which would be amazing.
“Professional people don’t ever come into a game thinking they don’t want to win, it is not how we are built.
“We’re built to fight every day in training and for every game. You want to win at everything. Mick McCarthy will not want to lose his final game of the season and go into pre-season with a defeat and nor will the players.”
Match facts
- Cardiff City have won their last three league matches against Rotherham United, scoring nine times and conceding just twice.
- Rotherham are winless in five away league matches against Cardiff (D2 L3) since winning 1-0 back in August 1998 with a goal from Lee Glover at Ninian Park.
- Cardiff haven’t lost their final league match of the season in any of the last six seasons (W4 D2) since going down 2-1 to Chelsea on the final day of the 2013-14 Premier League campaign.
- In the second tier, Rotherham haven’t won their final league match of the season since 1966-67 against Bury and are winless in 11 games since (D5 L6).
- Since Mick McCarthy’s first league game in charge of Cardiff City, no side has lost fewer Championship games than the Bluebirds (3, level with Norwich and Barnsley).
Match Officials:
Referee: GRAHAM SCOTT
Assistants: Mark Scholes and Ian Cooper
Fourth Official : Stephen Martin