Millwall boss gives verdict on back-to-back Championship victories

BY ALEX GRACE

Gary Rowett was happy after Millwall claimed back to wins for the first time since the Easter weekend.

Murray Wallace’s late header from Jed Wallace’s corner secured a first away win of the season.

“Yeah, really pleased,” said Rowett. “Seven unbeaten for us – won three, drawn four. Of course, part of the challenge for us is turning some of those drawn games into games that we win. At the end, we haven’t had enough of those goals from set pieces – we had a lot today and we need to make some of them count as well.

“We knew it was going to be a difficult game coming to Barnsley off the back of their defeat against Forest, we thought there’d be a little bit of a bounce early in the game and we might just have to weather that intensity and we created some of those moments ourselves.”

The Lions were thankful to keeper Bart Bialkowksi who made a good stop when one on one with Devante Cole in the first half.

“We overplayed a little bit at the back and gave them the chance to press, and we gave them one moment where Bart makes a good save one v one against the striker to keep it 0-0,” said Rowett. “After that, for the majority of the game, it was just whether we could find that quality moment.

“We created some good opportunities and some really good moments in the final third where we should have ended up with some shots on goal but our final ball wasn’t quite there. I wasn’t displeased, it looked at one point that it was going to end up a draw which I’d have been disappointed with but Murray Wallace – he was fantastic today, he’s been fantastic all season – just comes up with a header to win us the game.”