Posted by stevie in Hello there and welcome, hope you are all fit and well. During this post, I will be telling you about 11 games through-out January and February. Also, I will tell you about the transfers made during the winter transfer market. Hello there and welcome, hope you are all fit and well. During this post, I will be telling you about 11 games through-out January and February. Also, I will tell you about the transfers made during the winter transfer market.
A game that I wanted to win, and should have won, because Notts Co were in the league below us. They took the lead half way through the second half through Lee Hughes. John Thompson was sent off 6 minutes before the Notts goal was scored.
Man of the match for the Lions goes to Tony Craig who put in a good performance and influenced the team on but they couldn’t get a goal.
A big win for the Lions, with 3 different scorers getting on the scoresheet, not including the own goal. David Martin scored his first goal in a while, early on in the 5th minute getting the Lions up 1-0. Steve Mildenhill, the Southend Keeper, scored an own goal in the 40th minute to get Millwall 2-0 up.
Alan Dunne and Steve Morison scored the other 2 to give us the 3 points and a comfortable 4-0 win. Alan Dunne got man of the match after a solid performance and also managed to get himself on the scoresheet, well done Alan!
A 2-0 win over Carlisle is a big win as we continued our unbeaten run to 26 games unbeaten. Neil Harris and Ali Fuseini were the scorers. The goals came in the 43rd minute and 51st to secure the points. Ian Harte also missed a penalty for Carlisle in this game.
Ali Fuseini claimed the man of the match award after a great performance and also grabbed a goal for himself.
A game, which I thought, would be a tough one came as a surprise to me. We went 1-0 up through Neil Harris in the 31st minute and continued to press at the defence of Southampton. On the half time mark, Kenny Pavey equalised through an offside goal which shouldn’t have been.
We continued to press but couldn’t find any real chance on goal. Ali Fuseini had a shot that hit the post in stoppage time but was denied. Kenny Pavey got the man of the match for Southampton, but my man of the match was Steve Morison for his good solid performance, and was unlucky not to get a goal or 2.
We got a 1-0 win over Oldham in a game that could have gone either way at the end. We took an early lead through Neil Harris in the 5th minute. After that, the game was really tight and could have gone either way. Jason Price got injured in the 80th minute and might be out for a long time.
Tony Craig got man of the match for a solid performance and really lead the team to a 1-0 win.
A dissapointting draw for the Lions in a game that I thought we would definitely get the 3 points. Ryhs Murphy got Brighton’s goal in the 8th minute, and Millwall’s new signing Brett Ormerod scored the equaliser in the 20th minute.
Alan Dunne got injured in the 75th minute but doesn’t look to bad. Brett Ormerod got man of the match on his debut after a good performance and contributed to the performance with a goal.
January was the month for transfers and I would like to show you the transfers been made during the winter period. Here are the players that left The Den.
I sold 3 players during the period including Paul Robinson who was supposed to be the best defender at the club. During my time at The Den, he has been injured but every time he recovered, he seemed to gain another injury and never played a game so I was offered £325K for a player that had never played under me
so I accepted and he left for Southampton. Danny Schofield and Adam Bolder were the other 2 players to the The Den, both playing a few games under me, including a few goals for Danny Schofield. I got a respectable £420K for these 3 players. Below is the players I signed for The Lions in the winter period.
2 championship players were signed for the Lions after I decided to strengthen the squad for the end of the season to secure 1st place in League 1. John Eustace and Brett Ormerod were signed from Watford and Blackpool for a combined price of £10K.
Both of these players were on the transfer list at their clubs and both looked like players that could help gain the trophy. The other signing was Scott McGleish who was signed from Leyton Orient.
He is 33 which could be a bad thing, but he was currently the top scorer in League 1. I signed him for 70K which took quite a chunk out of my transfer budget. Hopefully he can continue scoring for me and get us the league title.
After a high scoring game last time we played these guys, I wanted to make this game an even higher scoreline in favour of the Lions, but that didn’t happen. Grant Holt opened the scoring, followed by a Scott McGleish equaliser. Wes Hoolahan and Grant Holt scored another 2 in the space of 2 minutes to give them a 3-1 lead.
Scott McGleish and Brett Ormerod scored a goal each to get us a point we needed. Scott McGleish got man of the match after a splendid debut and got 2 goals out of the 3 goals scored by the Lions.
After a 3-3 draw with Norwich, I really wanted to get 3 points and in this game, I was lucky enough to get them. Barry Corr opened the scoring for Exeter with a tap-in from 2 yards out. David Martin equalised with 27 minutes to go in the game.
The Lions were awarded a penalty with 2 minutes to go and Scott McGleish converted it home to give Millwall the 3 points. Scott McGleish was awarded the man of the match for the 2nd game in a row after getting the goal that gave us the 3 points, well done Scott.
A shock result after only getting 1 point after having more than 60% of the possession. Matt Bloomfield scored the first goal of the match to give Wycombe the lead, then missed a penalty in the 50th minute to let the Lions capitalise and get a goal back through Neil Harris who was brought on as a sub to score the equaliser.
Tony Craig snatched the man of the match award from Scott McGleish after a solid performance at the back.
We went a goal down to a Andrea Orlandi goal in the 25th minute. At this point I felt everything was going to go wrong.
David Martin pulled a goal back in the 49th minute followed by a Jude Stirling own goal to give us the 3 points I didn’t think we would get.
David Martin had a great game, never gave up and grabbed himself a goal. He picked up the man of the match award closely followed by Scott McGleish.
I was hoping to get all 3 points in this game, but The Lions left it very late to get them. Ali Fuseini got an early goal in the 2nd minute to give us an early lead. Ritchie Jones grabbed a goal back for Hartlepool in the 42nd minute. Nadjim Abdou got a late winner for The Lions in the 92nd minute with a 20 yard finish to give us the 3 points.
Nadjim Abdou snatched the man of the match award away from Scott McGleish after he got the winning goal, and never gave up the whole match.
We gathered 22 points in these 2 months and are now sitting on 81 points, ahead of Leeds and Colchester who sit on 2nd and 3rd place.
Unfortunately my computer wouldn’t let me save a screenshot of the league table due to problems with my computer, so I don’t have a screenshot of that, sorry. The Next post will be all about the race to the title.
Hi stevie, well done, you’re doing really well with Millwall, you should go up now, you only need about 10 more points. Good luck.
Hi Laxeyman, thanks for the comment
Thank you, I hope that, and all will be revealed in the next post