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Millwall pulled off a fine away win over Walsall at the Bescot Stadium after a
sparkling second half performance.
Millwall had the better of the exchanges throughout but in the first half
could find no way past James Walker in the home goal.
Walker pulled off a string of fine saves, leaving the game was goalless at the
interval, but could do nothing to stop Millwall taking charge in the second
period.
Millwall might well have gone ahead in the sixth minute but for Walker.
First he made a brilliant block from Richard Sadlier's shot and then, from the
resulting corner, saved Darren Ward's close-range effort.
Walker easily dealt with a header from Sadlier, and then pulled off another
fine save from Neil Harris from the left of the penalty area.
The resulting corner came out to Charley Hearn but he blazed his shot from 25
yards over the Walsall bar.
As the interval neared Walsall pressed forward, with Vinnie Samways, making
his home debut, putting pressure on the Millwall defence.
Paul Ifill almost broke the deadlock at the start of the second half but the
Millwall player put his shot from the right of the penalty area just wide.
Martin O'Connor then had a chance for Walsall but shot wide from 20 yards.
Millwall, who had always looked the most likely to score, broke the deadlock
after 59 minutes when Harris seized on a loose ball at the edge of the area and
hammered it into the top right-hand corner of the Walsall net, giving the
gallant Walker no chance.
Three minutes later Millwall went further ahead when Ifill beat two defenders
on the left and slipped the ball home from close range.
Walsall were not finished and Jorge Leitao shot just over the bar. Darren
Wrack's 35-yard effort was well saved by Tony Warner and the keeper saved again,
this time a 25-yard Samways shot.
Five minutes from time Walsall pulled back a consolation goal when substitute
Junior met a Samways corner to stab the ball home from close range.
Teams
Walsall: Walker, Bazeley, Barras, Roper, Wrack, O'Connor,
Robinson (Corica 71), Samways, Shuker (Junior 53), Matias,
Leitao.
Subs Not Used: Ward, Carbon, Zdrilic.
Booked: Bazeley.
Goals: Junior 85.
Millwall: Warner, Reid, Robinson, Ward, Ryan, Roberts, Hearn,
Livermore, Ifill, Harris, Sadlier (Claridge 69).
Subs Not Used: Gueret, Kinet, Wise, May.
Goals: Harris 59, Ifill 62.
Att: 6,647
Ref: D Gallagher (Oxfordshire).
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