NEIL HARRIS is convinced his players have the stomach for the fight as Millwall head into the most important period of their season.
Eight games remain for the Lions to drag themselves clear of the relegation zone and avoid falling into League One for the first time in seven years.
Before the defeat at Leeds United, the Millwall head coach had managed to find a way to pick up consistent points to aid the club’s bid for survival.
And he believes he’s already seen enough from his players to show him they will be able to handle the pressure during the high-stakes run-in.
Ahead of today’s game against West Bromwich Albion, Harris told NewsAtDen: “I’ve seen enough character, resilience, discipline and quality as well from the first five games to know we have the capabilities in the next eight games to make an impact on our points total and gets us into a stronger position.
“We have to take it one moment at a time and game-by-game and also break down the weekend as we have two games in that period. Focus on West Brom first, and then on Rotherham. And then look where we’re at in the league table after that.
“What we’ve done really well is we’ve been really strong as a unit and kept a really good spirit in the camp. We have to make sure we continue that focus and that togetherness into what is a hugely important five-week period.”
Millwall go into the Easter weekend facing two games in four days. The Lions are part of a pack of eight clubs separated by just five points towards the bottom of the Championship.
Harris wants his players to only focus on their own games and not be distracted by the fixtures of their nearest rivals.
He said: “There’s no point me looking at other people’s fixtures, I can’t control them. All I can control is what we do against West Brom and Rotherham and Huddersfield and so on. I focus on us.
“Ultimately you can spend hours and hours studying and trying to work out permutations and what other people are doing, but I can’t control what happens outside this building. All I can do is be the best leader for this football club and in the changing room and make the best decisions I can and try and guide us in a direction I can control.”