Harris blasts his ‘criminal’ strikers over late misses

IPSWICH goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski made a series of late saves to deny play-off chasing Millwall a club record. The Lions, who had been going for a seventh straight away win, are still unbeaten in 14 league games. Victory would have edged them into the top six but they remain eighth, one point adrift with six games to play. Lions’ boss Neil Harris was far from satisfied and said: ‘I want to set standards as manager and I told the players afterwards that wasn’t good enough. We should have scored seven goals in the last 10 minutes. Not to get one is criminal.’ Bialkowski stood firm to keep out the Championship’s most in-form team with terrific late saves from Lee Gregory, Mahlon Romeo and Jed Wallace. Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy said: ‘It was like days of yore, I enjoyed that second half. Neil should be p***** off with his strikers, shouldn’t he? There’s no point in whingeing about it. They should have put their chances in the net but Bart’s the best keeper in this league.’ Millwall opened the scoring in the 27th minute when defender Jake Cooper headed in from Ben Marshall’s left-wing cross. But Ipswich, despite being without a goal in their previous five home games, turned things round just after half-time as Martyn Waghorn netted twice in as many minutes. Millwall hit back to set up a grandstand finish. Bialkowski could only palm Wallace’s cross into George Saville’s path and the midfielder fired into the far corner. But thereafter the Polish keeper refused to be beaten.