Millwall moved back to second in the Championship as they were held to a goalless draw at lowly West Bromwich Albion.<\/p>\n
The Lions moved one point ahead of Ipswich Town, who have three games in hand, and Middlesbrough in the race for automatic promotion before both play on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Josh Coburn volleyed wide and Mihailo Ivanovic hit the crossbar as the away side came closest in the first half.<\/p>\n
The Baggies did not have a shot on target until the 82nd minute, when Millwall goalkeeper Anthony Patterson diverted Jayson Molumby’s shot wide from point-blank range.<\/p>\n
But it was the hosts who ended the game the stronger as they extended their unbeaten run under James Morrison to seven matches.<\/p>\n
Millwall showed early on their threat on the break as Thierno Ballo went close after being played through by Ivanovic. <\/p>\n
Coburn should have given the visitors the lead on 17 minutes when he met Ballo’s brilliant cross on the volley but put it wide of Max O’Leary’s post.<\/p>\n
With the game being played in the middle of the park and no shots on target from either side, Ivanovic sparked Millwall into life with a curling shot from distance that came crashing down off the crossbar, with Camiel Neghli drawing a good stop from O’Leary soon after.<\/p>\n
The Baggies improved after the break with Daryl Dike heading over and Molumby sending an effort wide from distance.<\/p>\n
Having had nothing to do all game, Patterson produced a brilliant save to deny Molumby late on when the ball landed at the feet of the Albion midfielder in the box – with Patterson making himself big to block the ball behind for a corner.<\/p>\n
Ousmane Diakite headed narrowly wide from the set piece that followed and neither side could find a way through in the eight minutes of added time to settle a battling draw.<\/p>\n
The result moves Albion five points clear of the relegation zone before the rest of the weekend’s fixtures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millwall moved back to second in the Championship as they were held to a goalless draw at lowly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-576737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}