Voglsammer’s goal helps Millwall beat Watford

Andreas Voglsammer scored his first goal in English football to set Millwall on the road to a vital victory over Watford in their fight for a Championship play-off place.

That numerical disadvantage, and a woeful performance, inflicted only a second defeat in the past nine games on Slaven Bilic’s Watford team, denting their own push for promotion to the Premier League.

Tom Bradshaw’s good work created the opening for Voglsammer, a summer signing from Union Berlin, and in his 19th appearance for the south London club, he got on the scoresheet for the first time by rolling his shot into the corner.

Watford’s task got even harder when Kamara, chasing a through-ball, barged into keeper George Long.

That brought a response from Danny McNamara, who appeared to say something and clip the heel of the Watford man as he ran back into position.

The Ivory Coast international, on loan from Udinese, reacted by thrusting both hands into the chest of the Millwall right-back, shoving him to the ground.

Millwall were the better team throughout, with Watford keeper Daniel Bachmann denying them more goals and Voglsammer hitting the bar with a chip.

The visitors made sure of the points seven minutes from time when Flemming fired a free-kick into the box and it evaded everyone to find the far corner.

That ensured Millwall secured a league double over the Hornets for the first time since 2002, and ended the four-match unbeaten run which had propelled Bilic’s team into fourth place.

Watford boss Slaven Bilic told BBC Three Counties Radio:

“It’s very hard to explain this performance from the start of the game, because everything was good after Huddersfield. Great week of training, very intense, everything you ask as a manager. It was all good and positive.

“We prepared for a few days on Millwall’s strength – long balls, second balls and everything, and we were poor from the start.

“They were winning all the second balls and we didn’t have the ball because of that, and then our passing was poor. Everything was poor.

“Then when you lose Joao Pedro and a goal, and before that there was a situation with a penalty – we thought it was a penalty on Keinan (Davis) – and that changes the game.

“Then the red card, and after that in the second half we tried to be solid and stay in the game and use the couple of chances we had.”