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.