Millwall boss gives verdict as his side end wait for a Championship comeback win.

Millwall’s second-half revival earned them their first Championship comeback win since October 2022, which pleased Alex Neil. Casper De Norre and Josh Coburn scored goals to cancel out Mattie Pollock’s first-half opener, as the Lions won 2-1 at Vicarage Road today. Pollock gave the home team the lead in the first half. He broke away from Jake Cooper and had the simple task of getting past Lukas Jensen. The Hornets had several chances to expand their lead before halftime but were unable to grab the second goal.

That came back to haunt them as Millwall staged a stunning comeback after losing 2-0 to Bristol City on Tuesday night. De Norre equalised with a superb goal after being set up by Aidomo Emakhu’s cutback. That moment shifted the game’s momentum in favour of the Lions. Coburn won it for the South Londoners in the 81st minute with a beautiful looping header off Tristan Crama’s cross.“Tuesday night was disappointing in the fact that I didn’t think we did a huge amount going forward, ” said Lions head coach Neil.

“We did not create enough for ourselves, which was disheartening. The two goals we surrendered were quite awful; we gifted Bristol the victory rather than making them work for it. We played quite well in the opening half at Watford today. “They played extremely well, and we struggled to get close them; they didn’t give us an opportunity to attack them. We did not intend for Louza to play left back from a tactical standpoint. It was the first time he had done it this season, and it caused us problems. “I tried to correct it in the first half, but we couldn’t acquire any information. “We looked leggy in the first half.”

Neil made some tactical changes at the break and they made a difference as the Lions were able to retain possession and get some more time on the ball.

“People tend to assume I’m in there shouting at them, that isn’t the case at all,” the man from Scotland stated.” “First and foremost, I’m disappointed that we dropped a goal to a set-play. “The second thing we needed to do was make a bigger influence in the game. Can we make the press better? We pushed through Luke Cundle, which made things slightly easier for us. We acted more aggressively. It made it difficult for Watford to move the ball, allowing us to play on top of them, as they did in the first half. “I’ve played here as a player, shooting up and down that hill makes a difference, there is no doubt about it, when the momentum is with you it’s easier to get after teams and run up that hill from that perspective that helped.

“We scored two goals, we could have scored a third late on and we were the better team in the second half.” Millwall has a dismal record when trailing in the league. This was Millwall’s first comeback victory in a league game since October 2022, when they defeated West Bromwich at The Den. Neil stated, “To be honest, I don’t think about it. I’m not particularly concerned with that kind of stuff. Obviously, when you concede, my major priority at halftime was that I thought Watford had outperformed us in the first half. I had to stop that; we needed to compete better, move the ball better and press better and be better in pretty much every element of the game but we did that.”

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