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Rotherham (634) and Plymouth (613) are the only two sides in the Championship this season to have faced more than 600 shots, while they also have the highest expected goals against totals (Rotherham are on 69.8, Plymouth 66.8).

Argyle - the 11th-highest scorers in the division - haven't done a league double in this fixture since 1998-99.

They're also up against a goalkeeper who's been outstanding this season: Sweden international Viktor Johansson has made some extraordinary saves, but a release clause in the 25-year-old's contract means he's likely to leave New York Stadium this summer, almost four years after arriving from Leicester City.

On a night when they need to win to delay being relegated, Rotherham's recent form in this one is promising: they've won three of their last four home league games against Plymouth, drawing once.

Here's how the bottom of the Championship table looks coming into tonight's game.

Plymouth can give themselves some much-needed space on the bottom three should they win.

Argyle could end the day four points off the drop zone with five games of the season remaining.

Meanwhile, Rotherham's fate is all but confirmed whatever happens this evening, given that Plymouth are the only team they can catch anyway.

Their far inferior goal difference also means that the best they can hope for tonight is their relegation to League One not yet being mathematically confirmed.

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Rotherham make two changes to their starting line-up from their 2-1 win here over Millwall six days ago.

Charlie Wyke, who scored the 86th-minute winner, comes in alongside the hugely experienced Lee Peltier. Sheffield United loanee Femi Seriki makes way, as does forward Tom Eaves.

Rotherham: Johansson, Bramall, Clucas, Rinomhota, Wyke, Rathbone, Peltier, Odoffin, Humphreys, Revan, Nombe

Subs: Phillips, Seriki, Ferguson, Appiah, Cafu, Lindsay, Eaves, Hatton

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Plymouth make four changes to their first line-up since the departure of Ian Foster, with two of the players who rarely featured under him, Dan Scarr and Callum Wright, back along with Adam Randell and Joe Edwards.

All four players who they replace were signed by Foster in January: Matty Sorinola, Lino Sousa and Adam Forshaw are dropped, while Tottenham loanee Alfie Devine is suspended after being dismissed for the first time in his career courtesy of two bookings in the home defeat to Bristol City on Monday.

Plymouth: Cooper, Phillips, Scarr, Gibson, Edwards, Randell, Houghton, Mumba, Whittaker, Wright, Hardie

Subs: Hazard, Sousa, Pleguezuelo, Miller, Bundu, Galloway, Waine, Forshaw, Sorinola

Chris Cooper
BBC Radio Devon

It is a big, brave move by Argyle director of football Neil Dewsnip to put himself in interim charge and I am sure he has had a look at the fixtures remaining for both Argyle and those teams around them.

He is certainly backing himself. He doesn't seem to lack confidence and I like that in a person.

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As they've emphasised since Ian Foster's exit, Plymouth pride themselves on being a patient club.

You couldn't really blame them for ousting the former England Under-20s coach, though. The League One champions were six points above the bottom three - having just beaten Rotherham with a 96th-minute winner - when Steven Schumacher left for Stoke City in November, but they've won three league games since.

A drought of home goals really did for Foster as part of an overall run of four in their past nine matches. The 81 goals Rotherham have shipped is 15 more than any other team, so Plymouth will surely be expecting the right onion bag to bulge tonight if they're to escape the drop during their remaining six matches.

We could have been watching the latest episode in shy-and-retiring ex-Rotherham manager Neil Warnock's unstoppable tour tonight - the former promotion winner in the Argyle dugout said this week that he would have answered the call to step in.

Warnock will have to keep watching, though, with director of football Neil Dewsnip and first-team coach Kevin Nancekivell taking charge until the end of the season, supported by Simon Ireland and Daryl Flahavan.

The identity of who Plymouth will plump for permanently could depend on which division they're in, but you suspect they'll turn to experience after their slump under Foster, who had never held a club job in England.

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If the league table was ordered by how much fans have had to endure on the pitch this season, Rotherham supporters would be right up there.

When former manager Matt Taylor's side won at Sheffield United by the only goal of the game on 8 November 2022, the away end was in dreamland. The best part of two years later, their winless run on the road since then has become a footballing nightmare.

By the time Taylor was sacked after a 5-0 mauling at Watford in November, Millers fans were used to dreadful away performances. What was less forgiveable, in the eyes of some, was the wait of almost a month to appoint Leam Richardson - a delay many saw as a waste of games which hastened their drift away from safety.

Their form has not improved under the ex-Wigan boss. Richardson alluded to a change in culture being needed behind the scenes in interviews this week, and the 44-year-old could be forgiven if he can't wait for the end of the season, when he's expected to be the man entrusted with a squad overhaul.

Rotherham have won promotion from League One four times since 2013-14, last doing so when they finished second to Richardson's Latics in 2021–22. The question is how quickly they can recover and rebuild after what has been a brutally bad season regardless of tonight's result.

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Welcome to tonight's relegation rumble between Rotherham United - for whom it will officially be curtains in the Championship if they do not win - and a Plymouth Argyle side in desperate need of more room between themselves and the bottom three.

It's been a tricky season for the Millers, to say the least. Now 18 points behind fourth-bottom Argyle, the ultimate yo-yo club of recent times between the Championship and League One have been doomed for months and are all but down.

Rotherham did beat Millwall 2-1 at New York Stadium for their first win in any competition since Boxing Day last time around, taking all three points for the fourth time in 40 league games.

Plymouth's visit from Bristol City on the same day also ended with many of their fans feeling a certain relief. Manager Ian Foster, who was only appointed on 5 January, departed after overseeing a fifth successive home defeat without scoring.

Their club teeters a mere point - the same total they have collected from their past six matches - above third-bottom Huddersfield Town. A showdown with the rock-bottom side resembles the ideal chance to change that, but Rotherham could feel freed by the absence of pressure and manager Leam Richardson will be keen to keep on the winning trail.