
Back Millwall to follow up Saturday's FA Cup win with a routine victory league victory on Tuesday.
Millwall v Chesterfield - Tuesday 19:45
Claudio Ranieri paid Millwall the ultimate compliment after seeing his Leicester team dumped out of the FA Cup at the New Den, comparing the spirit of the Lions to that of his own title-winning squad 12 months ago. It’s easy to appreciate the parallels. The Londoners line up in the same 4-4-2 formation and pride themselves on winning their individual battles.
So despite the potential hangover from those heroics against the Foxes, playing the final 40 minutes with ten men, the suspension of Jake Cooper following that red card, and the distraction of a mouth-watering trip to White Hart Lane in the quarter finals, we shouldn’t expect any let-up against struggling Chesterfield. Neil Harris won’t stand for anything less than three points.
The Spireites are now seven points from safety after wilting badly in a relegation six-pointer with Bury and Gary Caldwell already appears to be struggling, barely a month into the job. "We can’t play with fear," he said. "We can’t worry what the outcome is going to be." Before adding: "I said they’re all playing for their careers, their future and the club’s future."
With the worst away record in the division (W1 D3 L12) and ten defeats in 11 matches against the top ten, this really ought to be routine for the Lions. We’ll stop short of weighing into the straight home win at odds-on but there’s adequate value in the 7/1 quote about the Millwall 2-0 correct score, which is the point at which they allow themselves to take it easy.









