Millwall brought on Billy Mitchell from the bench in the 78th minute of this goalless draw at The Hawthorns.
Unfortunately for Albion, it wasn’t the prelude to the dramatic drumroll of an EastEnders-style climax which would have seen them winning this game, which they perhaps deserved to do as a result of their improved second half performance.
At full-time on Saturday the Baggies sat in 13th position in the table with 10 points from their first eight games. Millwall occupied tenth, with 11 points, and, of the previous two opponents with whom Albion had shared the spoils, Bristol City were eighth on 12 points and Watford 16th on nine. Albion keeper Alex Palmer was heavily involved in a couple of the game’s other defining moments in that first period, initially in showing decent reflexes to claw away a potentially goal-bound block to his own attempted clearance from Millwall’s Duncan Watmore with less than two minutes on the clock.
The Baggies boss had made five changes to his starting line-up after the away double-header, including handing a first start to loanee Jeremy Sarmiento, first start of the season to Grady Diangana and first league start to Mowatt.
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