Naby Sarr scored on debut to help Reading produce one of the narrow football scores of the weekend in the Championship. It was the first defeat for Milwall at home this season. The Lions had most of the possession in the game but could not find a way to get the ball in the back of the net with Naby Sarr scoring on the counter.
Managers Reaction
Millwall’s Gary Rowett: “I think we started brightly. We made a really good start to the game and put them under a lot of pressure early on. The challenge, as we’ve found so often this season, is you can’t keep coming back and finding solutions in games when you’re behind. We’ve scored the first goal in the Stoke game only in six league games and one cup game. This division is defined by that a lot of the time. [Reading] sat in and made it really tough. They’ve not had loads of possession in the game but they’ve been really resilient.”
Reading’s Paul Ince: “I said to the lads afterward that I’m disappointed in the fact we didn’t put the game to bed and that’s the lesson learned. In other words, you win two or three-nil, game over, we all sit back. But in the last five or 10 minutes, they’re throwing balls into our box that could go anywhere. It’s a lottery then, isn’t it? If you come away with a draw, [that] would have been devastating because we deserved to win the game by two or three.”
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