Birmingham City player ratings vs Rotherham United: ‘Shocking performance’ as no outfield player scores more than 5

Birmingham City put in a shocking performance to lose 2-0 at Rotherham United on Saturday afternoon.

Two goals from Richard Wood, one in either half, were enough to hand the home side all three points in a game Blues will want to quickly, quickly forget.

Here’s how BirminghamWorld rated the players performances - and they don’t make for pretty reading.

John Ruddy - 7*

Made a couple of good saves on the afternoon and stopped a penalty. Can’t really ask for much more from your keeper. MOTM - not that he had much competition.

Josh Williams - 5

Tried incredibly hard. Granted, the quality wasn’t there at times but his workrate was a cut above a lot of his teammates.

Marc Roberts - 3

Really bad afternoon compounded by bringing a Rotherham man down in the box.

Dion Sanderson - 5

Best of the back three.

Auston Trusty - 4

Was lucky to not concede a penalty of his own in the first-half when he chopped down Ogbene. Got away with one.

Maxime Colin - 5

Replaced at half-time with an injury.

Juninho Bacuna - 5

Blues’ star-man a lot of the time but was pretty non-existent today.

Jordan James - 4

Bullied in the middle of the park all day.

George Hall - 5

Not a bad performance but not a great one either. Hard to expect much from someone with so few senior appearances on his belt.

Troy Deeney - 4

Could have had a goal had Hogan squared an opportunity at the beginning of the second-half but away fro that, never looked threatening.

Scott Hogan - 3

Birmingham’s opportunities were extremely few and far between and he had the best by a country mile. Fired a one-on-one straight at the Rotherham keeper. Not good enough.

Subs

Jordan Graham - 5

Steady when he came on after the break going forward but struggled defensively.

Sam Cosgrove - 5

Actually thought he did OK when he came on. Better than his two strike partners that started.

Gary Gardner - 5

Didn’t do anything of note really but at least Blues seemed to gain a little bit of control in the middle following his introduction.

Ryan Stirk - 5

A lot to ask of a young player to change a game like this. Didn’t particularly notice him when brought on.

Jobe Bellingham - N/A

Brought on with less than 10 to go.