Manager reaction as Millwall win in Cardiff

Last updated : 21 January 2023 By Michael Morris

Cardiff interim manager Dean Whitehead:

"It's probably a game that typifies our season really, a lot of good play and get in good areas and the final pass, the final cross or final finish has just not been there.

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"Ced [Kipre] has been colossal for us all season and that lapse in concentration has cost us and it's changed the game because Millwall can then sit behind the ball and counter-attack, so it was difficult to take in the end.

"Confidence comes with winning games and at the moment we're not doing that. That's our job to change that."

Millwall manager Gary Rowett:

"I think it was, for large parts of the game, pretty attritional but I think the game dictated that. Cardiff played like they had nothing to lose.

"Every time we attacked and lost the ball we left ourselves open and we could have dealt with that a lot better. But going a goal up means we have a tendency to drop in and protect what we've got.

"We had to do that for long spells, we had to dig it out and sometimes those three points feel a lot nicer than three points when you've played really well because the character of the group came to the fore today."