‘Frustrating in some ways’ – Millwall boss Rowett on Championship defeat to Huddersfield Town

Millwall boss Gary Rowett has explained why it was difficult for his side to play to their strengths in Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Huddersfield Town.

The Lions are sixth in the Championship table heading into the international break.

Danny Ward’s second-half goal earned the Terriers an away victory and boosted their prospects of climbing out of the bottom three.

“When you get those moments (chances to score) they are rare because of the amount of bodies in and around the box,” said Rowett. “They played a centre-half in holding midfield to do a job on Zian (Flemming). They played a centre-half at right-back, to give them more size set-piece wise.

“They are entitled to do whatever they want to do. They got a result, they won the game and move on really happy. It’s a good tactical set-up by Neil (Warnock).

“But for us, you have to make those moments of space and moments of quality around the box. We couldn’t quite do that.

“It was a different game and frustrating in some ways. It was one you couldn’t just play forward early.

“You play forward early but if there is no space to play into then it’s very difficult. We had to be patient and move the ball around, whenever we’ve had these type of games we probably need to be better equipped to do that.

“At Millwall you can’t suddenly be equipped to deal with everything in your squad. There are certain strengths we have and certain weaknesses we have.

“We couldnn’t quite find that moment to open the game up.”