‘I’m German – I was always going to score my spot-kick!’ – Millwall matchwinner Voglsammer’s post-game comment

Gary Rowett felt that his Millwall side got “a little bit” of fortune with their penalty that settled today’s match at Reading.

Andreas Voglsammer’s first-half spot-kick clinched all three points for Millwall and moved them back into the Championship top six.

Zian Flemming was brought down by Reading goalkeeper Joe Lumley with Voglsammer emphatically converting in the 11th minute.

Now the attention will shift to Norwich’s home game against Sunderland tomorrow. City can move back above the Lions if they take all three points.

Both teams created very little at the Select Car Leasing Stadium.

It is the first time in Millwall’s history that they have won three league matches straight at the Royals’ home.

Rowett said: “The hard bit at this stage of the season is that people wrongly expect you to come to places like this and just win, because you are in and around the top six. But Reading have got one of the best home records. They are a tough side to play against.

“We started quite well and it was a good bit of play, the transition, that led to the goal. Zian does really, really well and then gets brought down. There was a question mark whether it was on the line or is it an inch inside or outside? I couldn’t really answer, but I know we probably got a little bit of the rub of the green with that decision.

“Then Vogey takes the penalty and it’s a brilliant, brilliant finish. He said: ‘I’m German, what do you expect? Of course I’m going to score.’ It was a fabulous penalty and we’ve waited a long time for one.

“We missed the last one (at Bristol City) in the last minute. It was a brilliant finish – a bit of power, great direction into the top corner and they are impossible to save.

“My only bugbear, a lot of games have been similar, was that maybe we made the game a little bit harder than it needed to be by not using the ball well enough. We were really solid and dealt with (Andy) Carroll pretty well. He is such a handful and by playing on Cressy’s side they perhaps thought they could bully him a little bit but he dealt with it fantastically well. For as much as Cressy took a few knocks, he probably gave Carroll a few more himself.

“We limited him to very few efforts on goal, and Reading in general. They had a bit of pressure and a spell where the wing-backs started putting balls into the box and you feel we might have to go to a five, soak it up.

“The big thing for me is that we started to use the ball a bit better and pass it a bit better. We got ourselves into much better positions and that took the sting out of Reading’s attacks, as much as the good defensive platform we’ve always got.”