GR: “It was always going to be a tough evening, with our fate sealed on Tuesday. I was wondering how we would respond and how we would perform. We spoke quite candidly about the need to be professional and the need to make sure we did our jobs at the very least.
“I felt first half was an indicator of Millwall wanting the game a little more. They ran with a little more energy and intensity at times. They didn’t create many opportunities on the back of it and I felt it was reasonably even without being overly pleased with it.
“We made a few tweaks at half-time, we made a few substitutions during the second half. We had more energy and more fight about the performance.
“The goal sums it up. I spoke about having more bloody-mindedness to score some scruffier goals in one box and defend the other box better. Harry Souttar summed that up tonight. He headed everything out of our box. He showed real desire along with Jannik. In the other box, he attacks it like there’s only one person who was going to score. We’ve missed that.
“For someone to give us that after being out for 450-odd days is quite incredible, and for him to play for 98 minutes. I had the medical and performance team almost begging me at 75 minutes to take him off but he just kept heading the next ball out and it was almost impossible to take him off.
“Some elements of it, I’m satisfied, but it’s hard to say I’m really pleased with the performance. We had to do our job tonight and at the very least we made it competitive.
“We made a mistake in the 90th minute, which has happened too often this season.”