Leicester City 0-1 Millwall 13-09-2008

Gary Alexander scored his second goal in two matches as Millwall surged briefly to third spot in League One with a superb awayday win at the Walkers Stadium.
Alexander, who had to wait until Boxing Day last season before bagging his first goal of the campaign, followed up last Saturday's effort against Hartlepool United with a stunning 19th-minute strike to settle a fierce encounter that produced six bookings and an injury-time red card for Tresor Kandol following an altercation with Michael Morrison.
Kandol's dismissal aside, this was a match memorable for all the right reasons as Kenny Jackett's bravehearts inflicted Leicester's first league defeat of the season.
To a man, The Lions worked tirelessly as a unit and even when they were reduced to 10 men in the second of what proved to be six minutes of injury-time, they stuck doggedly to their job.
Leicester showed just why they have made their best start in 17 years with some crisp play in the opening quarter of an hour.
There were just 68 seconds on the clock when Matt Oakley sent a 20-yard drive a yard over before Andy King drilled a low effort straight at Lions keeper David Forde.
Zak Whitbread then did enough to put off Max Gradel as the Leicester man sprinted through on goal and Andy King's low effort was comfortably held by Forde as The Foxes continued to pose problems.
Millwall weathered the early Leicester storm and could have broken the deadlock on 16 minutes. Tony Craig fed Dave Martin on the left, he picked out Alexander who in turn chested the ball to Kandol. The fit-again striker's low shot was parried by home keeper David Martin at full stretch and the ball fell invitingly for Lewis Grabban, only for the latter to blast over the bar from eight yards.
But The Lions made no mistake three minutes later when Whitbread's incisive forward pass was flicked on by Kandol to Alexander who swivelled and left Martin grasping at thin air with a stunning volley into the roof of the net.
Having established a precious lead, The Lions then had to produce a resolute rearguard action to keep a hold of it.
King glanced a header wide and then an almighty scramble saw the ball eventually cleared by a combination of Paul Robinson and keeper Forde for the first of five successive Leicester corners.
Thankfully, they came to nothing and indeed The Lions could have doubled their tally on 39 minutes when Robinson headed over from a Chris Hackett corner, but the 1,200 travelling fans were more than happy with a 1-0 advantage to take in at the break.
Millwall came flying out of the traps after the restart and Alexander was unlucky to see his low shot smothered at the far post by Martin in the 47th-minute.
With Jimmy Abdou and Ali Fuseini covering every blade of grass in the middle, The Foxes became increasingly frustrated in their attempts to find a way through.
Boss Nigel Pearson brought on waspish striker Paul Dickov and then DJ Campbell in a bid to try and add some attacking spark, but with Robinson and Whitbread rock solid at the back, Leicester only twice got a sniff of goal with Dickov drilling wide and then Campbell lashing over.
At the other end Millwall twice had penalty decisions rejected when Kandol and then Alexander were sent sprawling by clumsy challenges from behind.
But referee Pat Miller did spot an off-the-ball spat between Morrison and Kandol deep in injury-time and although the Leicester man appeared to aim a kick at Kandol, he escaped unpunished with the Millwall striker shown a straight red card for pushing his opponent.
Despite the three minutes of official injury-time extending to a nail-biting six, Millwall had worked so hard to not only establish a lead but hold on to it that they were not going to relinquish it and they dug in one last time to secure a third straight League One success.

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[JamiePolo1]

No ur not

[Rodgerslcfc07]

ur the best team we played all yr. makes me laugh peterborough fans who reckon their better then leicester haha u fuking killed them

[000jdeath]

grabban is shockingly bad

[randonessness]

oh what a game that was the atmosphere but it was so quiet in leicster from the foxes fans

[MFCjoeyb88]

quality result we r the only team beat leicester at the walker stadium get in there millwall .....WE R GOIN UP

[brbacFKZ]

millwall

fan club

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[charlieharding7]

GARY ALEXANDER DO DO DO!!!!!!

[gregoeight]

im a leicester fan and i thought that goal was really good

[12345conor54321]

goal n half