Match Day Millwall vs Brentford

[Jockney]

This marks the beginning of our end of season run-in. Of our ten remaining games, we have to face seven sides (Brentford, Sheffield United, Boro, Bristol City, Fulham, Aston Villa and Ipswich) vying for either a play-off spot or outright promotion. A lot of potential six-pointers in there.

Unfortunately it does mean that a couple of losses, or too many draws, could end our season prematurely. I think too many draws ultimately will make it impossible to give the top six a real go, and I can see us picking up the first of many here.

Millwall 2-2 Brentford

 

[MagpieBee]

This is the kind of game we have a history of doing well in, but Millwall are in good form at the moment, can see this being a draw.

Win, and I’ll really start to believe we’ll be in the play offs come the end of the season.

 

[Jockney]

We need to change this up because even though we're 1-up, I can see us losing this if we don't start putting our foot on the ball. Brentford impressive but toothless in front of goal, thankfully.

 

[Jockney]

How Brentford didn't get something out of that, I'll never know. Harris has got tremendously lucky there, because it was clear for everyone to see that we needed to match Brentford's formation in the second half just to compete in the midfield battle. Once Fred and Elliott came on, the chances dried up for Brentford and we looked like we could see it out.

Brentford the best side I've seen all season, but perhaps their greatest strength also their biggest weakness. It's suicidal to play the ball about in defence like that against a side that presses high.

 

[MagpieBee]

How Brentford didn't get something out of that, I'll never know. Harris has got tremendously lucky there, because it was clear for everyone to see that we needed to match Brentford's formation in the second half just to compete in the midfield battle. Once Fred and Elliott came on, the chances dried up for Brentford and we looked like we could see it out.

Brentford the best side I've seen all season, but perhaps their greatest strength also their biggest weakness. It's suicidal to play the ball about in defence like that against a side that presses high.

We hit the post, bar, had one ruled out for a marginal offside, and had one cleared off the line, conceded through a defensive error, just needed a bit of luck today. Had too many of these type of games this season, especially in the first 11 games.

Well done Millwall though, fought well. Think our Play Off chances are fast receding though, too many points to pick up now.

 

[JJH]

Barbet must've felt a right twat after the disallowed goal hahaha

 

[Frank]

How Brentford didn't get something out of that, I'll never know. Harris has got tremendously lucky there, because it was clear for everyone to see that we needed to match Brentford's formation in the second half just to compete in the midfield battle. Once Fred and Elliott came on, the chances dried up for Brentford and we looked like we could see it out.

Brentford the best side I've seen all season, but perhaps their greatest strength also their biggest weakness. It's suicidal to play the ball about in defence like that against a side that presses high.

I wouldn't say it's our undoing, just a one off mistake that can happen anywhere. Bentley could hoof that out, your centre back heads it forward, skips a few, centre forward knocks it on and someone runs on and scores. You're always going to concede goals from a mistake, fortunately we don't make those mistakes very often.

We were just unlucky, we could have just as easily won that 3-1 as we did lose it 1-0. Our biggest problem is lacking a striker with that clinical edge but we'll see what happens.

 

[Jockney]

I wouldn't say it's our undoing, just a one off mistake that can happen anywhere. Bentley could hoof that out, your centre back heads it forward, skips a few, centre forward knocks it on and someone runs on and scores. You're always going to concede goals from a mistake, fortunately we don't make those mistakes very often.

We were just unlucky, we could have just as easily won that 3-1 as we did lose it 1-0. Our biggest problem is lacking a striker with that clinical edge but we'll see what happens.

It happened fairly often throughout the match though. That extra pass just seems unnecessary.

 

[Frank]

It happened fairly often throughout the match though. That extra pass just seems unnecessary.

We rarely concede those types of goals and I only watched the highlights but I didn't see any other attempts off of the back of it.

The problem with the goal wasn't even the extra pass, it was a good pass, the problem was Bjelland then tried to play it through the middle where your attacker was rather than play it to the left back who was in an open channel.