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League One sacking: Huddersfield Town, Barnsley FC and Rotherham United’s promotion rivals make early change

One of Huddersfield Town, Barnsley and Rotherham United’s rivals has made the first managerial move in League One.

Blackpool have sacked head coach Neil Critchley, the Sky Bet League One club have announced.

The Tangerines have opened the season with back-to-back defeats after missing out on promotion last season.

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Owner Simon Sadler said: “Neil’s dedication, commitment and tireless work ethic have been a real credit to the club. Despite his best efforts over the past 12 months, there have been a number of disappointing results and performances which means that a change is needed to give the club every possible chance of competing at the top end of the division this season.”

Blackpool were beaten 2-1 at Crawley in their opening game of the season and lost 3-0 at home to Stockport at the weekend.

Jordan Hugill has given Rotherham United something to think about when they go in search of their first league goal of the season at Wycombe Wanderers.

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The return of manager Steve Evans and an extensive, early and well-targeted recruitment drive raised high hopes that the relegated Millers could continue their recent pattern of not staying in League One for longer than a season.

The first two league games of the season have been a disappointment, beaten at Exeter City and held to a 0-0 at home to Bristol Rovers despite dominating the game.

Having utterly outplayed Crewe Alexandra in the League Cup in between but only won 2-1, making chances is not a problem for the new-look side, but taking them has been in the early stages of the season.

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Rotherham United began their Bristol Street Motors Trophy season with a two-nil win over Mansfield Town at the New York Stadium – but it was anything but easy as the stats will tell us.

The Millers had nine shots at goal, two on target which went in and three that were blocked while Mansfield had seven on target from twenty nine shots the Millers blocking seven of those.

Possession wise the Stags had seventy-three per cent possession to the Millers twenty-seven and Town had thirty-four touches in the box to Rotherham’s fourteen. Aerial duels went eighteen-fourteen the Stags way while of the sixteen corners five went to the hosts.