Alex Millers' take on a monstrous Sheffield Wednesday away win at Millwall

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00:00 Hello, as you can see I'm stood outside Millwall Football Club, The Den.

00:05 I think without any fear of hyperbole I can describe one of the best away performances I've seen from a Sheffield Wednesday side.

00:14 First half, turgid, really really stodgy, neither team able to get anything going.

00:19 It was nervy, I think both sides knew what was on the line.

00:22 Wednesday of course able to cut the deficit on Millwall to four points and that first safety spot.

00:28 It told in that first half an hour and it was opened up by Anthony Massaba out the starting line-up.

00:35 For a fair bit of the last three or four games, having been a near ever present for Danny Ruhl,

00:44 he started and he made the difference, a little shimmy, twist and turn, a fantastic cross.

00:52 It's a criticism of Massaba's that he gets himself into some very good positions but his final product maybe is lacking in moments.

00:59 It certainly wasn't. As he opened up that game and E.K. Ugbo again lurking out the back post,

01:06 got his third Owls goal, I think a lot of people were looking at his signing.

01:10 When he arrived, having finished up at Cardiff City, he'd only scored four goals for Cardiff

01:16 and there were people wondering whether he would be able to hit the back of the net.

01:19 Well, his goals have helped win two games and six points, Sheffield Wednesday so far.

01:24 So all good on that front.

01:26 And then the second goal for Wednesday, ten minutes later, Barry Bannon, just for the moment of majesty really.

01:34 We've seen that little slip through down the left so many times across the two divisions in the last couple of scenes.

01:40 It's really coming to the fore and he's slid in, Massaba himself, and again those question marks over Massaba

01:48 in the key moments, what a finish it was to get past Sirkic in the Millwall goal.

01:54 From there the tide turned in terms of the feeling inside the stadium.

02:01 It's quite angry, very angry indeed. We know the passion of the Millwall fans is fated and they began to turn.

02:10 But that second half, I think, there was a real rally from the crowd and Millwall threw everything at Wednesday.

02:16 Who scrapped and clawed their way to a 2-0 win, got the clean sheet and a very satisfactory afternoon indeed.

02:23 The deficit now cut to four points with 14 games remaining.

02:28 Sheffield Wednesday are well and truly in this fight.

02:31 QPR won against Bristol City, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment.

02:35 But this hasn't traditionally been a happy hunting ground for Sheffield Wednesday.

02:40 And to get that win feels like a very big moment indeed.

02:43 This is the first of a four-game run that I think a lot of people are looking at.

02:47 Just wondering whether on the other side of these four games we'll know whether Wednesday are going to stay up or not.

02:53 Or certainly give themselves every chance of staying up or not.

02:57 It's a big few games, shall we say.

03:02 It's Bristol City next, at Pillsborough, followed by the trip to Rotherham United, then Plymouth at home.

03:12 This has been a very good start to that quartet of matches.

03:15 Alex Miller, reporting for the Sheffield Star.