Another survival step for Millers ... on-the-whistle report: Swansea City 1 Rotherham United 1

Never before during Matt Taylor's reign as manager had the Millers come from a goal behind to take anything from a game.

But they did so at the Swansea.com Stadium when Chiedozie Ogbene struck soon after the break to cancel out City's first-half opener.

Results had gone 20th-placed Rotherham's way two days earlier, with all eight teams around them in the table losing.

Roared on by a tiny yet incessantly vocal away following, they took advantage of that freak set of scores to move six points clear of the relegation places with 12 matches of the survival run-in left.

They were full value for a draw which could have real significance in the end-of-season shake-up.

Rotherham came so close to taking the lead after only 45 seconds.

Ollie Rathbone made ground and passed to Ogbene whose bending shot from the edge of the area hit the outside of the post.

Soon after, Ollie Cooper ran in on goal for the home side but his effort was straight at Viktor Johansson and the Millers keeper had no trouble making the save.

The Swede had to be much livelier on 17 minutes as he dived full stretch to tip away Millers old boy Ryan Manning's free-kick.

Rotherham were a long way from home; so far in fact that the 468-mile round trip to South Wales represented their lengthiest journey of the season.

They were being cheered on by around 100 away fans. Small in number they might have been, but they were big on noise and making themselves heard during the opening exchanges.

Sky TV's decision to reschedule the fixture from its original Saturday date to a Monday evening was the reason for the sparse travelling attendance.

Leo Hjedle lashed a shot over the bar from distance just after the hour-mark as the Millers had the better of proceedings. They were attacking more than the home side and Jordan Hugill was troubling Swansea's centre-halves in the air.

Morgan Whittaker slipped the ball past Johansson after being played through but the Millers had plenty of cover on the line.

There was no such cover three minutes before the break, however, when Joel Piroe had time and space after being picked out by Manning to drill a shot into the bottom corner against the run of play.

Bailey Wright's header looked to be going in to give Rotherham an equaliser on the stroke of half-time only for Ben Cabango's to rise on the goalline and get his head in the way.

The Millers went in at the break ruing the timing of Swansea's breakthrough as the City supporters had begun voicing their frustration in the minutes leading up to it.

Taylor had made one change to the team that had started the 2-1 win over Sunderland six days ago, with Wright coming in at centre-half in place of Grant Hall who suffered a third hamstring injury in three months against the Black Cats.

Rathbone and Lee Peltier had recovered well enough from groin and hamstring niggles respectively to be included in the side.

The visitors needed only seven minutes to get themselves back on level terms. Tariqe Fosu freed Shane Ferguson down the left and the winger's perfect cross found Ogbene who did the business at the second attempt as he scooped the ball home.

Piroe headed wide in the 74th minute while, four minutes later, Georgie Kelly almost forced a second Millers goal only seconds after coming on, being denied by an Andy Fisher save and then a Matt Grimes block.

There were no real chances for either side until the final whistle.

A draw then. A much better result for Rotherham than Swansea. That gaggle of hardy Millers fans were still singing at the end.

Swansea (4-2-3-1): Andy Fisher; Joel Latibeaudiere, Ben Cabango, Nathan Wood, Ryan Manning (Olivier Ntcham 57);  Joe Allen (Jay Fulton 57), Matt Grimes (Liam Cullen 90); Morgan Whittaker, Ollie Cooper, Matty Sorinola (Luke Cundle 81); Joel Piroe. Subs not used: Andreas Sondergaard, Harry Darling, Liam Walsh.

Rotherham (4-3-3): Viktor Johansson; Lee Peltier (Wes Harding 77), Bailey Wright, Cameron Humphreys, Leo Hjelde; Ollie Rathbone (Jamie Lindsay 72), Conor Coventry, Tariqe Fosu; Chiedozie Ogbene, Jordan Hugill (Conor Washington 74), Shane Ferguson (Georgie Kelly 77). Subs not used: Josh Vickers, Cohen Bramall, Hakeem Odoffin.

Goals: Piroe 42 (Swansea); Ogbene 52 (Rotherham).

Referee: Gavin Ward (Surrey).

Attendance: 15,144 (110).