The first real opportunity of the game fell to Portsmouth in a the swirling wind and rain at Fratton Park.<\/p>\n
Josh Murphy whipped in a cross from the right and the ball bounced up for Regan Poole who attempted a shot on goal but the defender sliced his effort, which was eventually cleared.<\/p>\n
Pompey then started to build wave after wave of attack, forcing Millwall deeper into their own half, and they took the lead on 22 minutes.<\/p>\n
Murphy made a run down the left before laying the ball off to Swanson who took one touch to set himself before rifling it into the top left-hand corner from around 25 yards.<\/p>\n
It was the full-back’s fifth goal for the Blues since joining from Arsenal in 2022.<\/p>\n
Millwall suffered a blow as Zak Sturge took a ball to the face while looking to stop a cross by Florian Bianchini.<\/p>\n
The full-back fell spent several minutes on the floor and was then carried off on a stretcher to where an ambulance team was stationed.<\/p>\n
Millwall almost got themselves straight back into the game after the break as Macaulay Langstaff’s effort was deflected narrowly wide of the near post.<\/p>\n
It was the home side who were able to add to their lead minutes later as Murphy played a low through ball in behind the Lions defence.<\/p>\n
Segecic then dinked the ball towards the back post and his effort looped up high and over Crocombe before dropping into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
Bryan was shown a straight red card in the 67th minute for taking out Lang but Millwall halved their deficit despite the numerical disadvantage thanks to Ivanovic’s smart right-footed shot.<\/p>\n
But Williams ensured Pompey’s victory in style, intercepting a pass on halfway before running all the way to the edge of the Millwall box where he struck a right-footed effort into the back of the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first real opportunity of the game fell to Portsmouth in a the swirling wind and rain at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-277605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}