With Millwall forced into a late reshuffle after Casper de Norre was injured in the warm-up, it was the home side who took control early on, as Oli McBurnie and Joseph both went close.<\/p>\n
Joseph’s close-range header from John Lundstram’s cross crashed against the bar but the Lions responded by snatching the lead with their first opportunity as Crama headed back Azeez’s free-kick for Cooper to hook in.<\/p>\n
Hull struck back almost immediately when Gelhardt scampered through, collecting a return ball from Joseph before slamming beyond Anthony Patterson for his 12th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
The Tigers continued to carve out openings and Gelhardt’s deflected drive looped up for Joseph to head home \u2013 only for the goal to be chalked off for a foul on the goalkeeper by McBurnie.<\/p>\n
The woodwork came to Millwall’s rescue once more before the break, with Hughes’ powerful header from a free-kick rattling the bar and bouncing down but failing to cross the line.<\/p>\n
Although the visitors strengthened their midfield at half-time, introducing Luke Cundle and Alfie Doughty, they were under pressure again when McBurnie’s glancing header flew just wide and Regan Slater’s volley was charged down.<\/p>\n
However, the Lions held firm and regained the advantage when Azeez danced around his marker and slid an inch-perfect low ball into the box for Ivanovic \u2013 sent on after Doughty hobbled off 10 minutes earlier \u2013 to walk over the line.<\/p>\n
Semi Ajayi’s stray pass then presented Coburn with the opportunity to make it 3-1, taking the ball past Hughes and tucking it low beyond Ivor Pandur to seal his side’s fifth win in six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Millwall forced into a late reshuffle after Casper de Norre was injured in the warm-up, it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-462894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462894","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=462894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}