‘Wasn’t worth the risk’ – Neil Harris explains Zian Flemming’s absence from Millwall’s draw with Gillingham
Millwall head coach Neil Harris addressed Zian Flemming’s absence from Millwall’s 0-0 draw at Gillingham.
The Dutchman was not included in the Millwall squad that played in Kent on Saturday afternoon.
New signings Japhet Tanganga and Macauley Langstaff also missed out on Millwall’s first pre-season friendly.
On the absence of the trio Harris said: “Zian’s had a knock throughout the week, so today just wasn’t worth the risk. Zian was back in training yesterday with the group and today at the training ground with Japhet and Macaulay, it was a session with some under-21 players.
“They’ll be back in full training on Monday.”
It was a first outing for new goalkeeper Lukas Jensen.
The Dane signed earlier this week and was for the most part untested in his first outing, asked if he wanted to see his keeper tested a bit more he said. ”
No, not at all. He gets tested every day in training and he’s only been here a couple of days. And today we didn’t want him to kick too many balls, we didn’t want him to have too much to do, we didn’t want him to get injured.
“At the moment we have Connal Trueman and three U21 goalkeepers all injured. We’re really short of players in the goalkeeping department.”
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