Fulham v Millwall team line-ups: Lions make three changes for derby at Craven Cottage
BY RICHARD CAWLEY
richard@slpmedia.co.uk
Millwall have made three changes for tonight’s derby at Fulham – one of them enforced.
Jiri Skalk comes into the Lions midfield to replace Jed Wallace, who starts a three-match ban for his dismissal in Saturday’s 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday.
Matt Smith drops to the bench with Tom Bradshaw coming in to lead the attack.
Smith has scored twice for the Lions in the Championship – including heading the winner against the Owls at the weekend – but Bradshaw is a more mobile presence in terms of pressuring a Fulham side who pass out from the back.
Ryan Leonard’s industry is preferred ahead of the more attack-minded Aiden O’Brien.
Fulham name an unchanged side from the one which won 2-1 at Huddersfield on Friday night.
The hosts have lost their last 10 London derbies – all of those reverses coming in the Premier League. Their last victory in an all-capital clash was the 3-0 victory at Millwall in April 2018.
Another stat is that the Lions have only managed to win one of their last 12 away Championship fixtures in August – drawing six of those and losing five. That win did come at Craven Cottage, Martyn Woolford with the winner in 2014 when Ian Holloway was in charge.
Fulham: Bettinelli, Sessegnon, Ream, Mawson, Bryan, Arter, Cairney, Johansen, Cavaleiro, Knockaert, Mitrovic. Subs: Rodak, McDonald, Decordova-Reid, Le Marchand, Reed, Christie, Kamara.
Millwall: Bialkowski, Romeo, Cooper, Pearce, M Wallace, Leonard, Thompson, Williams, Mahoney, Skalak, Bradshaw. Subs: Steele, Hutchinson, Smith, Ferguson, Molumby, O’Brien, Bodvarsson.
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