3 key men in Millwall’s revival

Steve Morison

The most important player at the club. The talisman. The goalscorer. The man who perhaps should be captain. If you’re talking about key men, then the list isn’t complete unless Steve Morison is on it.

In a formation irregular from the norm, Lee Gregory was getting next to no joy playing up front on his own against the Gills. Enter Morison at half-time and a revert to the tried and trusted 4-4-2 and the striker turned the game on its head, ultimately scoring the winning goal minutes from time.

The intelligence in Morison’s play is an asset that no other player at the club – and perhaps in the division – possesses.

Despite the club’s poor form in recent times, the number 20 has stood out like a sore thumb, putting in shift after shift and performance after performance, sometimes single-handedly attempting to get the Lions back into games.

Without any shadow of a doubt, along with Gregory, if any revival is to take place, then Morison will need to lead the line – not that he doesn’t do that now, anyway!

The whole team will need to pull together to turn Millwall’s fortunes around, but in terms of key men; Craig, Thompson and Morison will need to take on the mantle and form a solid spine in which the Lions can grow from in their attempts to climb up the table.

After the short international break, the fixtures pick up again with two home games against high-flying Bolton Wanderers and Fleetwood Town following a trip to newly-promoted Northampton Town.

With the table now taking shape, it is vital that Millwall begin to pick up points and make sure their recent form was just a blip in the long run.

If they are to make any tilt at promotion a possibility, then they’ll probably need to be situated in the top half come Christmas time.

Then again, Barnsley were bottom at the turn of the year last season. But I’d rather we wasn’t!