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Two points were the minimum ask from the last week, and two points were duly delivered in contrasting games; the first with a highly fortunate clean sheet, the second with some outstanding goals at each end but no winner to break the deadlock. And so the pressure is now on to keep the ball rolling as Millwall visit the Hawthorns on Saturday, just one point above Albion.

Recent history has "stalemate" written all over this fixture, with Albion winless against the Lions since February 2020 but Millwall winless in B71 since October 2001. After losing to Huddersfield at the beginning of the month, another defeat here would mean consecutive home losses for the first time under Corberan, and while that may not be the end of the world, it's also not a great prospect for a team that struggles on the road and has to travel to Preston next, so it's a milestone better avoided for the Spaniard. Chances of victory? Well, the charnel-house of broken strikers keeps claiming new inmates, but John Swift is on the best run of home goalscoring form of his career, netting five in the last eight at the Hawthorns including all three of those we've played this season. If he keeps it up and we shut Millwall out as we did Bristol City (however fortuitously), it's possible.

We probably do have to hunt for the win in the circumstances, with September shaping up to be an unrewarding month otherwise, but if history has the last laugh and delivers us less, it shouldn't be any kind of surprise.