Match Stats

The Match Stats As 10-Man Swansea City Come Back To Win At Millwall

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Well, that was remarkable, wasn’t it?! Unbelievable result and performance, considering we went down to ten men after just 5 minutes when Baker-Richardson was deservedly shown a straight red card on his debut for a reckless two-footed tackle.

It was a hard-earned, battling win against yet another physical and direct Millwall side. Their manager might have thought afterwards that his side “bossed it”, but I thought that it was a much closer game and it was actually disappointing for us to concede – and from a corner, as we limited them to mostly half-chances.

We had to work against some setbacks during the game too which makes the win all the more satisfying. After the early red card, Leroy Fer was forced off 30 minutes later and later – midway during the second half, Olsson had to go off with a knock. The two players to replace them both scored. Kyle Naughton scored a cracker from 20 yards to draw us level and at that point, we’d have taken a point all day long.

We saw Montero’s impact against Sheffield United on the opening day and his 24 minutes today was another example of just how useful he can be as an impact sub. Coming on and just simply running at tired full backs, getting to the byline and putting crosses in his forte. But this season he’s shown another side to his game. He can compete and help out defensively too but his quality on the front foot today made all the difference, winning the official man of the match award having assisted both of our goals. The weight on his pass through for McBurnie to tap home to win ut for us at the far post was exquisite.

The fighting spirit and team togetherness that we saw is something special. Potter deserves huge credit for that and he was excellent throughout, particularly how he managed our setbacks and made the required changes to see us through.

Millwall
1 – 2
Swansea City

The Den

Championship

1/09/2018 5:30 pm

Attendance: 12440

Referee: Graham Scott

Millwall Swansea City
Wallace 62 Naughton 76, McBurnie 85
Amos Mulder
Romeo 90 Roberts
Wallace van der Hoorn
Cooper Rodon
Meredith 86 Olsson 66
Wallace
 
James 60
Tunnicliffe Fer 35
Williams Grimes
O'Brien 59 Celina
Gregory McBurnie
Morison Baker-Richardson
 

Substitutes

McLaughlin Nordfeldt
Bradshaw 86 Montero
 
66
Martin Carroll 60
Webster Asoro
Elliot 90 Carter-Vickers
Karacan Naughton 35
Skalak 59 Dhanda

Game Statistics

11 Goal attempts 8
2 On Target 2
5 Corners 3
12 Fouls 8
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 1
60 % 40

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