Millwall boss not sure yet on appealing Jed Wallace red card

BY RICHARD CAWLEY

Neil Harris was unable to say if Millwall would appeal Jed Wallace’s sending off in today’s 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday – only viewing the incident once before talking to the press.

The winger was shown a straight red card for his tackle on Kieran Lee just before half-time. Matt Smith’s goal shortly before that settled the contest.

“I’ve seen it briefly – someone showed it to me downstairs – it is a tough one,” said Lions manager Harris. “What the rule states is that if your foot is off the floor it is probably a red card and if not it is a yellow card.

“I’ve not seen it again properly so I can’t say [about appealing] until I’ve seen it.”

Millwall defended diligently in the second half. And despite Wednesday’s pressure they failed to test Bartosz Bialkowski enough as the goalkeeper was superbly aided by his back four.

“That’s a Millwall result if ever you are going to get one,” said Harris. “We got our noses in front from a set play. It was a scrappy affair – two teams who were certainly committed. The red card changes the game.

“Bart made three or four saves low down from the edge of the box, a couple of headers have gone wide. There were no meaningful saves I can remember. That is credit to my team. I’m really proud of the players.

“You can do it various ways [after the sending off] – against Leicester we went 4-3-2 and still got the ball forward. Today we felt it was important to play 4-4-1 and help Mahlon Romeo, who was up against Kadeem Harris.

“I was disappointed I had to take Matt Smith off – he was excellent in the first half but chasing around Barry Bannan isn’t really his game! Tom Bradshaw came on and it allowed us to go after the ball in the middle zone.”

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