Gary Rowett seeking a return to ‘miserly’ Millwall – as he looks to pick side that can compete at Plymouth

Gary Rowett has no fresh injury worries for Millwall’s Championship fixture at Plymouth tomorrow – with any changes made to his starting line-up set to be tactical ones.

The Lions lost 3-0 to Swansea City on Saturday with sections of the club’s fanbase venting their anger at the long-serving manager, who marks four years at the helm later this month.

Millwall are set to be without Shaun Hutchinson, Matija Sarkic and Tom Bradshaw for the trip to Devon.

“We’re okay – I don’t think anyone picked up anything from the weekend,” said Rowett, when asked by the South London Press for an injury update.

“We’re travelling there with a similar-looking squad. Any changes will just be tactical opportunities for others, getting a little bit of extra something in the team that we perhaps need away from home at Plymouth.

“I don’t think we’re making any enforced changes to the team.

“We created some really good opportunities (against Swansea). We passed the ball and got into some really good positions. We’re just lacking in that penetration and ruthlessness at the moment, to go and score goals. It’s where we’re at – it’s not that we’re not creating chances. We had 22 efforts on goal and they had seven and scored three – we scored none of ours. It doesn’t take a genius to work out we’re not being clinical enough and ruthless enough when we got into those areas.

“We were a little bit too passive for my liking in the first half, which has been something that has been on and off. We’ve had two games where we haven’t been passive and then we go back to being passive again – which is definitely not something we’re intentionally working on doing.

“I’ve got to get to the bottom of that and find a better balance, week in and week out – knowing what we are going to get energy wise and aggression wise.

“We conceded poor goals. We make a mistake for the first one from a position we probably shouldn’t concede from. The second goal we shouldn’t concede and the third comes as we’re trying to chase the game and maybe overplayed a little bit in the midfield areas.

“It happens in games and we’ve got to avoid giving away silly goals and little gifts to the opposition – you can’t win games of football in the Championship, particularly when you’re not a free-scoring side. We had two clean sheets before the game and surprise, surprise we take four points. It’s something we need to get back to – being miserly. We’re conceding too many goals.”