Magic Maynard Marvels Millwall

Nicky Maynard's brace helps Bristol City record a vital away win at Millwall. This win proves pivotal for City in their quest to move out of the relegation zone. It now leaves the robins two points from safety and keeps Millwall marginally above it. This game was always going to be tough and a hard fought battle in which they came out 2-1 winners.
Both sides entered the fray with contrasting formations and playing styles, with Millwall's standard 4-4-2 and their dogged, hard working and committed style being employed in front of their home crowd. Whereas Bristol City's new found confidence showed with their newly designated manager Derek McInnes playing 4-3-3 with key man Maynard spearheading the City attack and Albert Adomah and Neil Kilkenny operating the flanks.
The game commenced with a quick and edgy tempo when after one minute had gone Millwall claimed for a penalty after Henderson was to have allegedly been shirt pulled in the box but the Referee had none of it. The flow of the game then quickly turned and City began to take command of the game and within good time they broke the deadlock, the move started with some good keep ball which was then played to Kilkenny who picked out dangerman Maynard on the snapshot to fire it past Forde into the bottom corner.
Shortly after, the game took another twist and Millwall were back on the front foot with a variety of close chances which were only denied by good defending and poor end product.
This was the tale for the rest of the first half until Millwall finally pulled a goal back through Jay Simpson. There was some debate over a suspected handball in the build-up to the goal by Henderson who then played it to Trotter and then passed out to an open Simpson who would of found it harder to miss than score.
It then took a matter of moments before City got another one back, Albert Adomah performed another amazing run cutting into the box to play a pass back into the path of Maynard who pounced on it and scored from 8 yards. This then proved to be City's winner and a winner like that was very un-Millwall like as they are renowned for their excellent defending at home. But they found themselves undone by City's impressive forward line and new found confidence that has been injected into the team by Derek McInnes himself.

Teams:

Millwall: Forde 6 (Mildenhall 5), Dunne 5, Robinson 6, Ward 6, Smith 7, Feeney 7, Abdou 5, Trotter 6, Howard 6 (Henry 6) Simpson 6, Henderson 7 (N'guessan 6)

Bristol City: James 7, Skuse 7, Fontaine 8, Nyatanga 8, Mcgivern 6, Elliott 6, Cisse 7(Woolford 6), Pearson 8, Kilkenny 8, Adomah 9 (Bolasie 6), Maynard 9 (Pitman 7)

Man of the Match: Maynard (Bristol City)