Match Thread Millwall FC - Coventry City Match Thread - Wednesday 1st Oct (48 Viewers)

[skyblue_55]

Just got back & another brilliant 3 points & as usual , a good away day at Millwall .
A tricky , no nonsense opposition , but we have a team of confident players , with really competent substitutes, plus our ability to give “ the Wolf “ his debut & how good was he !
Excellent Skyblues & now let’s start believing
CTID

 

---

[baldy]

What happened to that Smalllbone guy tonight?

Eccles? He's got bigger bones now,not small

 

[kg82]

What happened to that Smalllbone guy tonight?

Eccles?

 

[Skybluefaz]

What happened to that Smalllbone guy tonight?

Grew hair and got shitter?

Reverse Samson.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Everything just feels amazing right now. Really unusual feeling.

Get past Wednesday with 3 points and a much needed international break can give us time to refresh before a heavy push to January.

 

[Liquid Gold]

1.22 likes per post compared to your 1.05

Get VAR to look over that rejection

Talk to me when you surpass my 1.35 son

 

[Sick Boy]

I think EMC missing Leicester and tonight may have been a blessing in disguise.
BTA put in really good defensive shifts in both games and we perhaps wouldn't have got that from EMC

BTA has been excellent.

 

[skybluegod]

Lampard is always moaning about the squad size, for him to be that catty about it after a 4-0 win suggests he is really quite pissed off with it. Either that, or managing expectations I guess.

He really wasn't that catty about it in the interview. It was clearly expectation management

 

[Frostie]

Didn't we have a disallowed effort as well?

And a stonewall penalty somehow not given.

 

[Liquid Gold]

BTA has been excellent.

He's really surprised me this season, like a new signing in the wide roles.

He doesn't have the composure to play as the only CF in our system but his strengths are his fitness and work rate which he uses really well when wide.

If Simms can continue his strong cameos then we really do only need a single wide player to round out our attacking roles.

 

[Lamps]

Everything just feels amazing right now. Really unusual feeling.

Get past Wednesday with 3 points and a much needed international break can give us time to refresh before a heavy push to January.

It's Thursday morning and we got 3 points

 

[Tommo1993]

Is that only the second time this season we’ve come away with the lower possession? I reckon we were starting look a bit fucked after 30ish mins. So to pump them by 4 and keep the clean sheet is great.

 

[StrettoBoy]

BTA deserves a big shout out and I’d seriously consider keeping him as a starting winger.

He’s playing well at the moment and it’s good to have a bit of competition.

Thinking about it, I think most of our players are doing well at the moment even the ones such as BTA, Simms and Dasilva who have had their critics in the past.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

He's maybe taking the pressure off the squad and deflecting attention
Mourinho was a master of it

I read a piece on mourinho - he said himself he said half the stuff he did becuase it pushed the attention onto him rather than his squad.

I’ve noticed Lampard always says something slitghlty eyebrow raising after every game, whether it’s the ref performance or like the last one where he said that the schedule was ridiculous as we have to play 12:30 on Saturday

 

[Covcraig@bury]

Look back. Several said we didn't play well.

I didn’t think we played that good to be honest. It just goes to show how good we really are. It’s become the norm

 

[wingy]

It's Thursday morning and we got 3 points

Yeah but it's closer to Friday on his side of the world?

 

[Briles]

I didn’t think we played that good to be honest. It just goes to show how good we really are. It’s become the norm

I said this to my mate after the blues game too.

 

[wingy]

I didn’t think we played that good to be honest. It just goes to show how good we really are. It’s become the norm

You may be right but I'd just wait until we play a top side,is there such a side exist?
It's going to be fun finding out.

 

[Captain_Slackbladder]

One gripe about last night is that the support weren't quite in full voice. Not quite the partisan end and songs struggled to get songs going. A general issue for midweek games in London...

 

[jordan210]

The most annoying thing about last night was if the Ref had given the stone wall penalty he was looking directly at. Torp would not have been injured.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

We are playing well it's we're just not really getting out of 2nd or 3rd gear. We havnt had to the last 2 games

 

[SkyBlueBarmy84]

I read a piece on mourinho - he said himself he said half the stuff he did becuase it pushed the attention onto him rather than his squad.

I’ve noticed Lampard always says something slitghlty eyebrow raising after every game, whether it’s the ref performance or like the last one where he said that the schedule was ridiculous as we have to play 12:30 on Saturday

Think it’s a combination of this, while also applying constant, but polite, public pressure to Doug ahead of January.

Both of them have mentioned it in recent interviews - Doug joked about Lampard’s reaction to the squad depth, but then made it clear that he prefers a smaller squad, while Lampard has now repeated that it will be difficult to maintain these levels given how thin the squad is.

There may already be exploratory conversations already taking place ahead of the January window - I’d hope there are! - so could be a tactic to encourage the club to pursue our top targets and ensure some proper spending.

 

[MusicDating]

Realised all our goals were 'one-twos'!

 

[Lamps]

Realised all our goals were 'one-twos'!

It was so easy we even let the crossbar join in for the 3rd

 

[Offhegoes]

We've not been fluent in our attacking over the last 3 games. Taking 2 of the best attacking players out of any team, and that would probably affect their fluency too. We have looked way more solid, and the fight and togetherness has really come through.
4-0 last night flattered us. 2-1 would probably be a fairer score line. Then again our recent game against Norwich should have been 4-1 to us in terms of how the match played out. Oxford should of been a win for us too.

 

[Jamesimus]

Thought Millwall looked like one of the better teams we’ve played this season, with the caveat being they don’t look like they can score goals, which is an unfortunate position to be in

The end product from their attacking players lacked any sort of composure and was always rushed meaning they created little of note. Saw some of Millwall fans online saying they played better than us; no you didn’t. Rushworth didn’t have to make a save until we were 3-0 and resting some of our more important players!

Realising how lucky we are to have goals all across the midfield and front line.

 

[SkyBlueDog]

This guy was cracking me up with his mental breakdown at at 1:57:00 onwards

 

[Captain_Slackbladder]

This guy was cracking me up with his mental breakdown at at 1:57:00 onwards

You have to question someone's mental capability when they use terms like "Mong" on a public broadcast and think at 4-0 down they were the better side. Really challenges the stereotype of a Millwall supporter. Duuuuuurrrrgggghhh

 

[ccfcchris]

I just want to give a mention for Ellis Simms. I think he's been excellent in the last two games.

 

[fatso]

Some people definitely need to reel it in a bit. We could win there sure but expecting to win is something else all together. A point away at Millwall is never a disaster.

Reel it in a bit

This aged well .

 

[TomRad85]

Reel it in a bit

This aged well .

You are an odd one at times.

 

[Viktor17]

I Absolutly loved the defensive work last night, much more desire to block/ get 2nd balls and die to stop ball going in. They loved it

Rushworth excellent saves late on / defensive unit so much better, think back 12 months was horrific.

Never worried about goals and fact we are scoring from all angles is just brilliant.

wright classic striker, not great game, touch heavy - bags 2 - lovely stuff.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

Special shout out to the BTP for closing the gate at South Bermondsey for 1/2 hour making loads of people miss their trains.

That was annoying. Did you see the guy climb to the top as if he was going to go over the top, only to climb back down?!

 

[Skyblueweeman]

Good job last night. Professional performance. 4 decent goals, good performances from most and a great 3 points after the results from Tues night.

Defo Houchen 87 vibes from Hajis 2nd. Great cross and great header. I remember when we signed him, there was a header from a highlights reel that was similar and I've been waiting for some of that and last night it happened. He's such an effective player.

And cheers to whoever suggested parking at Asda

 

[Jamesimus]

Reel it in a bit

This aged well .

I mean it would have been a decent result; just so happens we did better?