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Doh! Bart’s howler gifts Wells winner

- Chris Basham S Hooper By STEVE JUDGE

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The VAR reviewed the incident but decided to allow the goal despite the challenge on Pickford.

“It was a foul but we have to respect the referee’s decision,” added Silva.

Somehow Wilder’s side led at the break despite not having a single shot.

It wasn’t until the 73rd minute that they had their first attempt – a poor Oli McBurnie header which sailed wide.

But their first attempt on target sealed the win. John Lundstram played in Lys Mousset with a superb pass and when Pickford hesitated as he came out, the substitute slotted the ball under his legs.

New Blades owner Prince Abdullah said this week he will bring the South Yorkshire club to a

“bigger and better” place.

United have drawn at Bournemout­h and Chelsea and now beaten Everton – five huge points on the road.

But bizarrely Wilder was not impressed with the performanc­e.

“With the ball, that’s possibly as poor as we have done this season,” he said. “We turned ball over cheaply. This could have gone the other way.

“I’m sure there are teams who have come here and played better than us and not got a result.” MILLWALL keeper Bartosz Bialkowski’s second-half howler gifted QPR a fourth straight league win.

Nakhi Wells made it two doubles in two games as he took advantage of Bialkowski’s fluffed 72nd-minute clearance.

What made it all the more gut-wrenching for Millwall was it came just a minute after they had levelled through Shaun Hutchinson.

Wells had already shown his knack for being in the right place when he fired Rangers ahead on 56 minutes.

Millwall boss Neil Harris said: “Goals change games. One minute you are level with 20 minutes to go and then make one individual error and the game is gone.

“I feel for Bart. He is a good lad and a good pro. I think we deserved a point.”

QPR boss Mark Warburton said: “It’s that type of league where if you can put a run together you can go up quickly and it can quickly go the other way, so we will take it one game at a time.”

Millwall were booed off at the end of a first half high on energy but low on quality.

But there was nobody in front of Wells when Todd Kane’s cross ran loose to him in the box just before the hour and the on-loan Burnley striker fired home.

Hutchinson equalised with a close range effort from Jed Wallace’s corner. But seconds later Biakowski made a hash of a long ball, his miscontrol gave Wells an open goal.

Millwall had an 88th-minute penalty claim denied when Jed Wallace’s shot appeared to be blocked by substitute Marc Pugh’s arm.

But Harris said: “I will not comment on any refereeing decisions.”

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