Wigan vs Rotherham - prediction, team news, lineups

Rotherham United caput to the Brick Community Stadium to instrumentality connected Wigan Athletic connected Tuesday, knowing that a decision would corroborate their relegation from League One.

The hosts climbed to 15th spot successful the League One table with a victory implicit Mansfield Town connected Saturday and could warrant their information with a win, portion the visitors beryllium 13 points adrift of information with conscionable 5 games remaining.

Match preview

Wigan Athletic caput into enactment connected Tuesday successful hunt of a 3rd consecutive League One triumph which could corroborate their survival, having climbed distant from the menace of the driblet past week.

In what has been a pugnacious run successful England's 3rd tier, the Latics improved their endurance hopes heading into the Easter Weekend with 2 wins, a gully and a decision successful a four-match span, seeing them determination onto 45 points from 39 outings.

Ryan Lowe's men would adhd 4 much important points to that tally successful that play double-header, playing retired a goalless stalemate with Leyton Orient earlier visiting strugglers Northampton Town and winning 3-1 to enactment daylight betwixt themselves and the bottommost four.

Mansfield Town past visited the Brick Community Stadium connected Saturday, and the Latics took different large measurement towards confirming their third-tier presumption with a 2-1 triumph, having led done Callum Wright and been rapidly pegged backmost by Lucas Akins, earlier Joe Taylor converted a 71st-minute punishment to seal each 3 points.

Now sitting 15th connected 52 points, 5 supra the driblet zone, Wigan Athletic tin determination each but retired of scope with different triumph connected Tuesday, portion results elsewhere successful summation whitethorn deem them officially safe.

Their visitors, meanwhile, caput to Lancashire successful a acold much hopeless position, knowing that different nonaccomplishment would corroborate their driblet to England's 4th tier.

Rotherham United person endured a mediocre run successful their 2nd word pursuing relegation to League One, sitting connected the brink of different driblet having managed conscionable 37 points from their 41 matches, winning conscionable 9 and losing 22 of those.

Following Matt Hamshaw's exit, Lee Clark arrived astatine the AESSEAL New York Stadium to pb their endurance bid, but helium has not overseen immoderate betterment with his 4 games astatine the helm producing 1 gully and 3 defeats, extending their winless tally to 8 games having lone scored successful 2 of those matches.

Following losses to Lincoln City and basement broadside Port Vale either broadside of a gully with Stevenage, the Millers hosted South Yorkshire rivals Barnsley connected Saturday and suffered a 3-1 beating, with Sam Nombe's injury-time punishment lone a consolation aft Tom Bradshaw's brace and Adam Phillips's goal.

Now needing a minimum of 13 points from 15 disposable successful their past 5 games to flight the bottommost four, portion knowing that results elsewhere could seal their destiny arsenic soon arsenic Tuesday, Rotherham United caput to Wigan knowing lone a triumph volition suffice.

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Team News

Wigan Athletic whitethorn beryllium unchanged from their 2-1 triumph astatine the weekend, with Jack Hunt, Baba Adeeko and Tyrese Francois inactive confined to the attraction room.

Taylor volition pb the enactment with confidence, having scored 10 goals successful 17 league appearances since his January indebtedness arrival.

Alongside him, Christian Saydee and Dara Costelloe whitethorn vie for 1 spot with Wright apt to support his place, portion James Carragher, Jason Kerr and Will Aimson are bound to enactment up successful an unaltered backmost three.

Rotherham United stay severely deed by injuries, with defenders Hamish Douglas, Emmanuel Adegboyega and Marvin Kaleta each apt remaining sidelined alongside midfielders Dru Yearwood, Joe Powell, Kian Spence and Shaun McWilliams.

Daniel Gore did instrumentality from suspension to commencement successful midfield past clip out, though, and helium whitethorn enactment up alongside Josh Benson, with seasoned Liam Kelly having had to commencement their past 4 games.

Nombe volition pb the enactment having netted his 10th league extremity of the play connected Saturday, portion Jordan Hugill is backmost successful contention aft an wounded and volition vie with the likes of Harry Gray, Gabriele Biancheri, Ar-Jany Martha and Duncan Watmore for attacking spots.

Wigan Athletic imaginable starting lineup:

Tickle; Carragher, Kerr, Aimson; Borges, Smith, Weir, Murray; Costelloe, Wright; Taylor

Rotherham United imaginable starting lineup:

Cann; Hall, Baptiste, Jules, James; Gore, Benson; Martha, Watmore, Gray; Nombe

We say: Wigan Athletic 3-1 Rotherham United

With momentum backmost connected their broadside having escaped a slump successful caller weeks, we fancy Wigan Athletic to marque it 3 consecutive victories against a Rotherham United broadside devoid of assurance to nonstop the visitors down to League Two.

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