Read full details here as Ben Wiles of Rotherham celebrates his goal against Sheffield United in Sheffield.
Ben Wiles scored the game-winning goal against Sheffield United, his second in as many games.
Due to Rotherham's victory at Bramall Lane, Sheffield United's chance to take the lead in the Championship was lost for the first time in 42 years. Rotherham is a competitor from South Yorkshire.
Chiedozie Ogbene sneaked into the box and found the Millers skipper unmarked to coolly turn the ball home for the game-winning first-half goal.
Before halftime, as the Blades sought to draw even, Enda Stevens put the ball in the back of the net, but the scrambling attempt was disallowed for offside.
Viktor Johansson maintained a ferocious play for a Blades team that controlled the game but came up empty-handed, John Egan fired out early in the second half and stopped a late Oli McBurnie attempt. Substitute Billy Sharp also headed wide.
View the Championship action from Tuesday in its entirety. Sheffield United manager Paul Heckingbottom chose to start with the same lineup as the one that defeated league-leading Burnley 5-2 on Saturday, a result that offered the Blades the chance to pass the Clarets if they won this South Yorkshire Derby.
But after only 20 minutes, the hosts were forced to make a substitution as James McAtee took over for an injured John Fleck.
Wes Foderingham saved a shot from Peter Kioso after he made a good connection with Cohen Bramall for the Millers, who were playing without six first-team players due to injuries.
Before Ogbene set up Wiles for the game's lone goal in the 38th minute thanks to a Jack Robinson clearance error, United struggled to generate quality opportunities of their own.
After having a goal disallowed late in the first half, Stevens collided with Wiles in the area at the end of the 45th minute and was fortunate not to hand away a penalty deep into injury time.
After the break, Sheffield United came out firing, with Egan challenging Johansson. The goalkeeper also held up to McBurnie's glancing header in the 68th minute and the striker's powerful effort in the 90th.
Rotherham resolutely refused to yield to the Blades, who are still third, while Burnley upset the Millers with two stoppage-time goals, including a 100th-minute winner, last week to take the lead.
Manager of Sheffield United, Paul Heckingbottom
"We didn't play with the same tempo and vigor as usual from the get-go."
The last thing you want to happen is to give up the opening goal to a team that is experiencing that. We just performed below our potential as a team. There are undoubtedly a number of contributing factors. Our performance was lacking.
"Of course we could have won the game, but we didn't. Although the statistics would indicate that we did, we didn't play with the same vigor. I'm not saying we deserved to win. As a team, we weren't performing at our best."
Manager of Rotherham United Matt Taylor:
"We were aware of it before to the game when I remarked that 1980 was a long time ago and that I had not yet been born, but I also mentioned how it would have felt for the spectators."
"I used myself as an example because I support Manchester United and the matches with a little more spice that I remember watching as a kid were United-City, United-Liverpool, and United-Leeds."
"Local Derbies are more important to the supporters, and tonight was no exception."
It means a lot to the players since they have just suffered some blows, which is never pleasant.
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