West Bromwich Albion 0 - Millwall 0

Date:	Friday 10th April 2026
Competition:	Sky Bet Championship
WBA: 6.7	(4-4-2) O'Leary 6.6, Imray 7.2, Phillips 6.8, Campbell 7.1, Styles 6.9, Mowatt 5.5, Molumby 6.4, Diakité 8.4, Price 5.3, Dike 6.4 (Sule, 84 5.7), Heggebø 4.7 (Maja, 68 4.9) Unused subs: Griffiths, Gilchrist, Jimoh-Aloba, Mustapha, Taylor, Whitwell, Bostock Manager: James Morrison (c) 7.3
Millwall: 5.9	Patterson, Crama, Taylor 5.4, Cooper, Sturge (Bryan, 73), Azeez (Bannan, 95), Neghli, Ivanovic, De Norre (Mazou-Sacko, 65), Ballo (Watson, 73), Coburn (Langstaff, 65) Unused subs: Crocombe, McNamara, Leonard, Cundle
Referee:	Lewis Smith 5.1
Attendance:	23,447 Home Fans 7.5 Away Fans 5.2

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oshawabaggie:

We should have won, but could easily have lost. Anyone unfamiliar with the standings would have said we were the team fighting for promotion. We controlled most of the game but, as we've seen all season, despite dominating possession we created few real chances. And when they came we lacked composure.

I was happy for Dike, who showed a lot of fight, and for Diakite, who was brilliant throughout. It's stunning that he was left out of so many games earlier in the season. I hope he's not badly injured.

Mozza has instilled fight, pride, and spirit. He should be rewarded with a decent contract regardless of where we end up. However, without reinforcements on the field he will face a tough task. Four more performances like this and we should be okay.

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Brendan Clegg:

Friday night at the Hawthorns under the lights and an interesting tweak to the starting 11 saw Mowatt come in and the potential of a midfield diamond.

But in lining up and after a few minutes it was clear that Molumby was playing on the right and it was otherwise as we were.

I thought I’d was a brave and bold decision that demonstrated a couple of things; that Morrison was still trying to find a solution to our right hand side without our 3 more reliable wingers and without trusting any of the youngsters to do the hard running/disciplined side… and secondly linked to that, we needed players out there with legs and determination to not allow Millwall’s pacey wide players easy crosses - hence it wasn’t one for Taylor.

It was an entertaining opening 45 where we looked pretty good in parts and were the better team but, without doubt, could have gone in a goal or two down because when we got caught on the break we looked wide open - a combination of Mowatt not having the legs and Molumby being understandably positionally niaive and either getting sucked in or not quite tracking properly.

Millwall missed an absolute sitter and also rattled the bar with a speculative effort after we’d coughed the ball up cheaply in our own half.

On our part there was plenty of industry, fight, battle and some decent play until we got to their final third when it was a similar story - low quality, a lack of composure or poor decision-making.

Mowatt made a right mess of a decent opening, Price criminally shot from distance when we’d opened them up and had the chance to slide Imray into loads of space on the right, Imray’s crossing when he did get forward wasn’t good enough and Heggebø snatching at things. We had to hang on a bit before half time as we got looser and sloppier with Millwall pressing us back and sensing to capitalise on our slight disarray.

At half time it felt like we needed to change it but you could also understand Mozza’s dilemma… could you trust Jamma to do the running? Is Bostock strong enough yet? Is there anything else there you can rely on without weakening what we have. I couldn’t come up with anything I felt confident in.

But credit to Mozza and his coaches - we came out as a regrouped team and looked a lot better. It seemed to me that Molumby played a bit narrower and we didn’t get caught out as much.

It was a controlled performance where we largely penned them back, nullified them and tried to take it to them and create without an obvious creative player who could open them up. There was plenty of effort, running, enjoyable switches of pace from slow to quick and we did get shots off and headers on goal albeit nothing that quite did enough.

We did mix up a couple of set plays which were much better than the dire ones of Blackburn and the first half, and through one of these for the 3rd game in a row we ultimately lacked the quality to put a glorious chance beyond the keeper from 6 yards - Molumby joining Dike and Heggebø in drawing a good save/should have scored at this level moment.

Maja came on and looked like he’d played a game at 3pm (although you’d fancy him even in this state if any of those aforementioned chances had come his way in any of the games) and I thought it was a a brilliant touch to reward Soule’s U21s form with some minutes… you won’t find bigger monsters than Millwall’s centre backs and he didn’t look phased.

The players looked absolutely dead as the whistle went and whilst we could do with a couple of wins still, this was another great point against a tricky and physical team for a squad that is absolutely down to the bare bones.

If we’d given anything less than everything we’d have been beaten so it is to the huge credit of the players, Mozza and his coaches that they fought out another very decent result. 7 unbeaten with the injuries we have and where we were is seriously impressive.

Hopefully we get some reinforcements back with a slightly longer spell until our next game and the players can go again with the same intensity for the final block of 4 games.

O’Leary - 7 Two clean sheets. Absolutely justifying the recall
Imray - 7 Sign him up.
Phillips - 7 Big performance. Headed everything.
Campbell - 7 Is just a leader and never gives anything up.
Styles - 7 Tenacious. Looked hurt, kept going.
Molumby - 6 Did a job for us, never stopped running.
Diakite - 7 A monster in there. Looks top quality after a run of only 5-6 games. Has got the pace of it, the decision-making, the physicality. It’s coming together for him.
Mowatt - 5 Was properly rusty first half but kept at it, was stronger and braver after the break.
Price - 6 Sometimes the touch or decision is so bad BUT he never stopped running, tracking back or stretching it the other way. Gave it everything.
Dike - 6 Looking fitter and gave them problems.
Heggebø - 5 Hustle and bustle. Bring kind, he needs a rest.

Maja - 5 Didn’t get with the pace
Soule - 6 Ran about.

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Kev Buckley:

Albion 0 Millwall 0: Is the Throstle alive or dead in this universe?

Given where Millwall were, this could be considered a very good point, although having watched the game, it might look as though we dropped two - a view that gained a little more traction after an equally lowly Portsmouth also beat a top-six side in their Saturday fixture.

If anything, both results continue to point to just how poor the division has been this season: our relative poorness, within it, notwithstanding.

A fairly humourous start to the coverage had a camera panning along the home crowd as the Liquidator rang out, only for its effects mic to pick up a hearty "F**k off Villa: West Brom!", though, with the Friday night game going out well past the children's watershed hour, such language probably doesn't require bleeping out?!

A 442 with no obvious widemen, let alone wingers, is something of an oddity these days, but yet here it was: Price, no longer considered the number ten we had desperately hoped for when he arrived, deployed out on the left, and midfield enforcer Molumby asked to run up and down on the right, a move which saw Mowatt come back into the centre. Up front, Dike started alongside Heggebo.

The American was much to the fore in the first fifteen, first, albeit failing to make the most of some confusion in the Millwall ranks; then in putting a backpost header from a corner onto the roof of the net, and then having a run down the left that set up Heggebo, although the latter fired over.

The lack of meaningful shots on target from either side had worrying echoes of the Blackburn game, before Millwall cut us to pieces down our right side, only for the final shot, from inside our six-yard-box, to somehow miss the goal altogether.

Dike would then get back in the action, spinning off his marker to set Price away, who in turn set up Mowatt for another mis-hit shot.

Within a minute, Price would manage to come up with his, by-now signature, slice of a chance that has pretty much characterised his season, at least when in and around the top of the box.

As the half-hour passed, Imray was beautifully played in around the back, but, despite his wing-back pedigree, he failed to produce a decent enough cross for us to fashion a chance.

Millwall would have a couple of efforts as the half ended, firstly when Mowatt got caught out by the bounce, and allowed his opponents to lash one against the bar, and then when O'Leary, Campbell, and a third Albion defender combined in an "after you Claude" moment at our left post, which allowed the away side to nearly bundle it in. Personally, I blame our keeper for not taking charge of things, although he did redeem himself with a save before the half-time whistle brought the curtain down on yet another first forty-five in which we hadn't mustered a shot on target.

There was a lot more of the same after the break, although the fact it was the fifth from bottom side creating more of it, as opposed to the fourth from top side, really does say a lot about the division, and adds to the long list of "if onlys" that this season will be remembered for.

Morrison didn't (wouldn't, or couldn't, remains the question though?) make any substitutions until the 67th minute, and then it was merely the like-for-like swap of Maja for Heggebo.

I thought we'd had our first shot on target, after someone inside the box had finally hit the proverbial cow's arse with their banjo, but it seems that that sixty-ninth minute effort didn't count, and that the "1" only went into the "Shots on Target" column some ten minutes later, after some decent work down our left earned us a corner, from which Styles was set up for a shot from well outside the box, and after that had pinballed around between the legs of the players in it, the ball fell to Molumby, inside the six-yard box, but although he was able to get his effort on target from there, he was only able to shoot straight at the keeper, who, it must be said, had made himself quite large.

Albion even managed to save the "highest tonight" attempt for the 89th minute: Campbell slicing one, horribly high and woefully wide, from the edge of the box.

Oddly enough, despite only the former having a game in hand on everyone around them, and so also around us, both Portsmouth and Blackburn play sides in the top five on Tuesday - second-placed Ipswich and fifth-placed Southampton, respectively - before Blackburn then play again on Friday, against table-topping Coventry, before Pompey and Leicester play each other, as we play at Deepdale, on the Saturday.

There is, no doubt, a universe in which the set of results sees us very well placed by the time Brendon wins the Manchester Marathon, although there are an even larger number of universes in which a Throstle, atop a "Semper Te Fallant" ribbon, on a pale of navy-blue and white, may also be observed.