Smart Alex off the mark
TEEN titan Alex Mighten clipped in his first goal in senior football to rescue a point for Forest.
The 18-year-old’s deft 49th-minute finish came just two minutes after Tom Bradshaw fired Millwall in front.
Forest boss Chris Hughton was thrilled to see the godson of club legend Des Walker open his account in such timely fashion.
He said: “It was important we scored straight after the goal. The response was really good and important, and it was a good goal as well.
“It is brilliant for Alex getting his first goal.
“When you are a forward player it is about the moments that you can change something or make it happen and I thought it was a super run and great anticipation and finish.”
This high-energy, low-quality draw was Millwall’s 10th this season.
Jed Wallace and Mason Bennett had early sights at goal for the Lions, while the visitors may have worn all-red but any resemblance to the current English champions ended there.
While Liverpool were smashing seven goals down the road at Crystal Palace, Forest could only muster four shots all game.
The first came on the half-hour, and that was a high and wide free-kick from Sammy Ameobi.
The hosts were restricted to long shots from Wallace, Shaun Williams and Ryan Leonard that failed to test Brice Samba.
All that changed just after the interval. A run down the inside left from Jon Dadi Bodvarsson took him past two defenders and his cutback from the byline was inch-perfect for Bradshaw to dispatch.
But almost from the restart Mighten latched on to a long ball down the middle from Loic Soh to clip the ball past Bartosz Bialkowski.
Wallace should have restored the lead on 52 minutes, but appeared caught between shooting and passing to Bodvarsson at the far post and his non-pass-shot drifted wide.
Leonard almost won it with a late 25-yard volley that Samba turned over.
Lions boss Gary Rowett said: “The one thing you don’t want to do after scoring is make a mistake soon afterward, and we do.
“It is a really poor goal for us to concede.
“One ball does both our centre-halves.
“We have to start being more clinical because second half we looked the side that was going to win.”
MILLWALL: Bialkowski 6; Romeo 6, Hutchinson 6, Cooper 6, M Wallace 6; Williams 6 (Thompson 90), Leonard 6; J Wallace 7 (Burey 90) , Bodvarsson 7 (Skalak 84), Bradshaw 7 (Parrott 72), Bennett 6 (Smith 72).
Unused subs: Fielding, Pearce, Muller, Tiensia.
N FOREST: Samba 6; Christie 6, Soh 6, Worrall 7, Ribeiro 6; Yates 6, Sow 6; Ameobi 7, Cafu 6, Mighten 6 (Knockaert 74); Grabban 6 (Taylor 69, 5).
Unused subs: Smith, Figueiredo, Bong, Jenkinson, Guerrero, Lolley, Arter.
MAN OF THE MATCH: Joe Worrall. Stood firm at back and made a point-saving block on
REFEREE: Oliver Langford 7.