West Bromwich Albion 0 - Millwall 0

Date:	Friday 10th April 2026
Competition:	Sky Bet Championship
WBA: 6.7	(4-4-2) O'Leary 6.6, Imray 7.2, Phillips 6.8, Campbell 7.1, Styles 6.9, Mowatt 5.5, Molumby 6.4, Diakité 8.4, Price 5.3, Dike 6.4 (Sule, 84 5.7), Heggebø 4.7 (Maja, 68 4.9) Unused subs: Griffiths, Gilchrist, Jimoh-Aloba, Mustapha, Taylor, Whitwell, Bostock Manager: James Morrison (c) 7.3
Millwall: 5.9	Patterson, Crama, Taylor 5.4, Cooper, Sturge (Bryan, 73), Azeez (Bannan, 95), Neghli, Ivanovic, De Norre (Mazou-Sacko, 65), Ballo (Watson, 73), Coburn (Langstaff, 65) Unused subs: Crocombe, McNamara, Leonard, Cundle
Referee:	Lewis Smith 5.1
Attendance:	23,447 Home Fans 7.5 Away Fans 5.2

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oshawabaggie:

We should have won, but could easily have lost. Anyone unfamiliar with the standings would have said we were the team fighting for promotion. We controlled most of the game but, as we've seen all season, despite dominating possession we created few real chances. And when they came we lacked composure.

I was happy for Dike, who showed a lot of fight, and for Diakite, who was brilliant throughout. It's stunning that he was left out of so many games earlier in the season. I hope he's not badly injured.

Mozza has instilled fight, pride, and spirit. He should be rewarded with a decent contract regardless of where we end up. However, without reinforcements on the field he will face a tough task. Four more performances like this and we should be okay.

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Brendan Clegg:

Friday night at the Hawthorns under the lights and an interesting tweak to the starting 11 saw Mowatt come in and the potential of a midfield diamond.

But in lining up and after a few minutes it was clear that Molumby was playing on the right and it was otherwise as we were.

I thought I’d was a brave and bold decision that demonstrated a couple of things; that Morrison was still trying to find a solution to our right hand side without our 3 more reliable wingers and without trusting any of the youngsters to do the hard running/disciplined side… and secondly linked to that, we needed players out there with legs and determination to not allow Millwall’s pacey wide players easy crosses - hence it wasn’t one for Taylor.

It was an entertaining opening 45 where we looked pretty good in parts and were the better team but, without doubt, could have gone in a goal or two down because when we got caught on the break we looked wide open - a combination of Mowatt not having the legs and Molumby being understandably positionally niaive and either getting sucked in or not quite tracking properly.

Millwall missed an absolute sitter and also rattled the bar with a speculative effort after we’d coughed the ball up cheaply in our own half.

On our part there was plenty of industry, fight, battle and some decent play until we got to their final third when it was a similar story - low quality, a lack of composure or poor decision-making.

Mowatt made a right mess of a decent opening, Price criminally shot from distance when we’d opened them up and had the chance to slide Imray into loads of space on the right, Imray’s crossing when he did get forward wasn’t good enough and Heggebø snatching at things. We had to hang on a bit before half time as we got looser and sloppier with Millwall pressing us back and sensing to capitalise on our slight disarray.

At half time it felt like we needed to change it but you could also understand Mozza’s dilemma… could you trust Jamma to do the running? Is Bostock strong enough yet? Is there anything else there you can rely on without weakening what we have. I couldn’t come up with anything I felt confident in.

But credit to Mozza and his coaches - we came out as a regrouped team and looked a lot better. It seemed to me that Molumby played a bit narrower and we didn’t get caught out as much.

It was a controlled performance where we largely penned them back, nullified them and tried to take it to them and create without an obvious creative player who could open them up. There was plenty of effort, running, enjoyable switches of pace from slow to quick and we did get shots off and headers on goal albeit nothing that quite did enough.

We did mix up a couple of set plays which were much better than the dire ones of Blackburn and the first half, and through one of these for the 3rd game in a row we ultimately lacked the quality to put a glorious chance beyond the keeper from 6 yards - Molumby joining Dike and Heggebø in drawing a good save/should have scored at this level moment.

Maja came on and looked like he’d played a game at 3pm (although you’d fancy him even in this state if any of those aforementioned chances had come his way in any of the games) and I thought it was a a brilliant touch to reward Soule’s U21s form with some minutes… you won’t find bigger monsters than Millwall’s centre backs and he didn’t look phased.

The players looked absolutely dead as the whistle went and whilst we could do with a couple of wins still, this was another great point against a tricky and physical team for a squad that is absolutely down to the bare bones.

If we’d given anything less than everything we’d have been beaten so it is to the huge credit of the players, Mozza and his coaches that they fought out another very decent result. 7 unbeaten with the injuries we have and where we were is seriously impressive.

Hopefully we get some reinforcements back with a slightly longer spell until our next game and the players can go again with the same intensity for the final block of 4 games.

O’Leary - 7 Two clean sheets. Absolutely justifying the recall
Imray - 7 Sign him up.
Phillips - 7 Big performance. Headed everything.
Campbell - 7 Is just a leader and never gives anything up.
Styles - 7 Tenacious. Looked hurt, kept going.
Molumby - 6 Did a job for us, never stopped running.
Diakite - 7 A monster in there. Looks top quality after a run of only 5-6 games. Has got the pace of it, the decision-making, the physicality. It’s coming together for him.
Mowatt - 5 Was properly rusty first half but kept at it, was stronger and braver after the break.
Price - 6 Sometimes the touch or decision is so bad BUT he never stopped running, tracking back or stretching it the other way. Gave it everything.
Dike - 6 Looking fitter and gave them problems.
Heggebø - 5 Hustle and bustle. Bring kind, he needs a rest.

Maja - 5 Didn’t get with the pace
Soule - 6 Ran about.

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