{"id":451394,"date":"2026-03-01T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451394\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:23:10","slug":"aaron-mcleans-efl-takeaways-millwall-cant-be-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451394\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron McLean&#8217;s EFL takeaways: Millwall can&#8217;t be ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millwall may live by the mantra that no-one likes them, but nobody can ignore them either, least of all second-placed Middlesbrough who hold a slender advantage of one point over the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aiming for only a third ever top-flight season following two between 1988 and 1990, they are right in the automatic promotion picture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLean: &#8220;When I look at Millwall, I look at the level of performance and the games, like the way that they&#8217;re winning games. It&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re getting lucky. They&#8217;re going and they&#8217;re dominating teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I look at the way they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c86v7843w2et\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled Charlton<\/a> in a local derby. It epitomised everything that they&#8217;re doing. Physically they&#8217;re a match for absolutely anyone in the division and they&#8217;ve got quality players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They don&#8217;t play long ball but they mix it up, and on their day they&#8217;re as good as anyone in the division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Their goals come from everywhere in the team and Alex Neil has built a squad that isn&#8217;t reliant on one or two superstars. They work, they work brilliantly as a unit, and they all know their job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are right on the tails of Middlesbrough. One more slip-up from Boro, and Millwall could grab that second spot. If it is to be the play-offs for them, nobody will want to play them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millwall may live by the mantra that no-one likes them, but nobody can ignore them either, least of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451394","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=451394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}