MILLWALL chairman James Berylson organised a flight back to London for the squad after their 2-1 Good Friday win over Middlesbrough, Alex Neil said.
The Lions gutted out a 2-1 win at a sold-out Riverside Stadium to leapfrog Boro into the automatic promotion places, staging a second-half turnaround to overturn a one-goal deficit courtesy of Josh Coburn’s brace on his return to his boyhood club.
Millwall only have a two-day break before welcoming Norwich City to The Den on Easter Monday.
“Jimmy’s been brilliant in the fact that we’re going to get a flight back down, so we don’t need to travel seven hours on a coach, which is great,” Neil told MillwallTV. “So I know the fans will have, but we need these lads to rest up, and then we’ll get ourselves ready over the next two days. We’ll be in tomorrow and the next day, getting ourselves ready for Norwich”
Neil was asked by NewsAtDen if the quick turnaround factored into his thinking with the starting eleven.
“What factored in was I know that Middlesbrough are double aggressive in terms of getting top of us, Neil said. “I knew they would probably flip that into a back three, so I wanted to have two strikers versus their three.
“So there was a lot of sort of jiggery-pokery that I knew [Boro head coach] Kim [Hellberg] would do in terms of how he’d set his team up. Then I knew I had to counter that to give us a foothold and a chance in the game, which we certainly did better in the second half than we did in the first half.”
