JOE Edwards believes there are positives to take from Millwall’s 3-2 defeat at Leicester City tonight.
The Lions went ahead through Tom Bradshaw and it stayed 1-0 until half-time with a major upset beckoning.
But a poor start to the second half saw Jannik Vestergaard and Patson Daka score within four minutes of each other before Ricardo Pereira made it 3-1.
Kevin Nisbet scored his third goal in four games in stoppage time to narrow the scoreline.
Edwards believes there were aspects of the performance that could be built on but was disappointed by the “lapses of concentration” that contributed to the second half crumble.
He said: “I’m obviously pleased with a lot of what went on in the first half. We had a clear plan of how to come here and try to limit Leicester. They have a lot of attacking threat and can hurt you in many ways.
“You could see very early on in the game they were having a lot of the ball without really hurting us. And then you get exactly what you want when you have that game plan – that one moment where the players really showed some quality to get one-nil ahead.
“It feels like we had a massive opportunity and we continued to frustrate. You felt the stadium when we went in at half-time and you felt that in our dressing room that there was a lot of confidence and belief.
“We came out in a similar manner in terms of how we defended collectively but then there were just some moments in and around our own box where a combination of their quality and us having some lapses in concentration… that’s what they can do, they can take the game away from you.
“It shook us. The game looked over in and around 70 minutes but then all of a sudden we get that little wave of belief again and before you know it we start putting passes together. We get our goal and all of sudden in the final few minutes it’s game on from a game that looked done and dusted.
“So we need to take the positives from the good things we came here and did but ultimately I think their players showed how difficult it is to come here with how brutally they can punish you.”