They are up against a familiar face today (12.30pm) in their old boss Alex Neil, who oversaw a great reset gone wrong when he was in charge at Stoke from August 2022 until December 2023, spending a transfer warchest that had taken three years' cutting and saving plus the sale of key players to put together.

Follow live coverage as Millwall face Stoke City in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season.

Millwall boss Alex Neil believes his side were worthy winners after Mihailo Ivanovic's injury-time penalty gives them a 1-0 win over Stoke.