Well at times early in the second half we looked very good with the ball, there was one passage of play, were Seri was the conductor, were we pinged the ball around like Man City making Millwall look as though they were the ones with 10 men. Outstanding display by all but for me Seri was the standout performer, he is like a Houdini-receives the ball in incredibly tight situations and 99 times out fo 100 always wriggles his way out and manages a creative pass.
Going down to 10 men forced us to be more defensive anyway. Good battling display as it went on. Millwall now not scoring in their last three games. Acun will want more attacking football in most games though, and when that didn't get results he sacked Shota. I'm not really sure about those disagreements between them, it was simply that the players (particularly the defence) didn't really suit the attacking system Acun wanted.
I normally hate listening to away commentary, it’s usually biased & absolute ****e, but, I thought today, the Millwall commentators were actually good, on a par with the guy that does ours. The only 2 things they got wrong was, a comment about Baxter being at Hull, then going to Chelsea & them loaning him back to us. The other thing was when they said Greaves had a lot of pace on the left! Other than that, I thought they were quite fair, even at one point saying, Millwall looked like the team with 10 men.
Well well well, kudos ... was in Leeds for my lads birthday so never saw it, but heard Burnsy and Swanny commentary on way home, sounded like we deserved the point, and at tines played some decent football. Lots of debate about the sending off, but seems like the majority felt it was classed as reckless, and with the crowd jn his ear there was always gonna be pressure on the ref to send him off. Given Liam has only had a couple of days with them it's a hell of a start, and if ya get anything at Millwall you have to earn it. Well done to all concerned and now to the test at Cardiff.
Their 'orrible sarf Landan bias kicked in on a couple of occasions; when whittering on about their precious forwards being manhandled in the area at set pieces and when condemning Oscar without consideration at the sending off, but yes, they were much less irritating than most of the brain damaged, six fingered halfwits who usually appear chirping like insestuous, scabulous banshees on dodgy Internet streams.
Generous. Skybet is 5/1. I won't be taking either. But then Millwall are 8/15. If they're top half material then the quality of this league is even more of a rancid gash than I though.
Interestingly we are second non favourites to finish top 6 on paddy power @ 40/1, Rovverham next @ 33/1, yet they are second favourite to be relegated whilst we are third. For top 6 only Huddersfield are below us (100/1) whilst West Brom (16/5) and Wigan (20/1) are both well ahead.
Millwall boss Gary Rowett on the game and Oscar Estupinan's red card: "The game is pretty even up to the point when they have a man sent off. There was little space on the pitch. In my opinion it is reckless, even though he hasn't meant to do it - he catches Cressy in the face and he needed a lot of stitches at half-time. "After that you just know what is going to happen - that they are going to drop in, they are going to test our patience and make it hard for us to play through them. They did. They defended brilliantly. "Any ball that came into the box they managed to get their head on it whereas you'd expect sometimes us to create more of a threat with the amount of balls we put into the box - 24 shots and 10 corners. "We were pretty much dominant, as you'd expect with those statistics, but you've got to go and put one in the net. As much as we feel it is an opportunity missed, we're not going to win every home game - the Championship doesn't work like that, you have little spells where things don't quite go how you want them to with the relevant quality." Hull head coach Liam Rosenior said: "Coming here where Millwall have won seven games out of nine at home, second-best record in the league and everybody said to me it couldn't be a tougher game for your first-ever permanent manager's job. "I've had two real working days with the players in terms of sessions, so for them to take on the tactical information and to give the energy, passion and commitment, that has to be the base of a successful team. If we keep those levels of commitment and application, we can climb up the table. "I don't think he [Estupinan] even tried to win the ball, he can't see the player so it's not a challenge. He's tried to take the ball down so it was more of a collision. I can see why the referee's given it in terms of what it looks like. I feel sorry for Oscar because he's saying sorry to me and all the lads in there. "He was magnificent for the first half hour in terms of the energy he brought. The biggest thing for me is to understand why it was given. I just hope it's not seen as dangerous or reckless play because he has tried to take the ball down, it's just an unfortunate incident."
