Millwall 2-2 Hull City: Joe Bryan's second-half leveller earns point for Lions
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Joe Bryan (centre) scored his first goal for Millwall having joined on a free transfer this summer
Joe Bryan's first goal for Millwall earned the Lions a point against Hull City at The Den.
Millwall took an early lead through Duncan Watmore but Hull quickly turned the game around.
Two long balls caught out the hosts' back four and created goals first for Jaden Philogene and then Adama Traore.
Gary Rowett's side improved after the break and Bryan cut in from the left to drill a shot into the bottom corner and equalise.
The hosts could not force a winner and have still not won back-to-back matches this season, having won 2-0 at Plymouth on Tuesday.
Millwall stay 15th in the Championship while Hull move up a place to ninth in the table.
The Tigers were hoping to bounce back from a 3-0 defeat at Ipswich on Tuesday and used route one as they responded to going behind to what was Watmore's first goal of the season.
First a long ball found Philogene making a run in from the left, and he controlled and slid a finish past Bartosz Bialkowski in the Millwall goal.
When a clearance from Hull goalkeeper Ryan Allsop was headed across his own goal by Millwall right-back Danny McNamara, Philogene was first to it on the dead-ball line and passed back across goal for Traore to tap home.
Bryan hit back for Millwall and both sides then had moments to win the game, if not clear-cut chances. Scott Twine curled a free-kick just over the bar for Hull, while Millwall's Casper de Norre forced Allsop to tip his shot over the bar.
Millwall manager Gary Rowett told BBC Radio London:
"I felt our attitude got us back into the game after poor defending had taken us out of it.
"It was hard for us in the first half and we couldn't quite get to grips with it.
"But then I thought the second-half performance was excellent and we controlled the game both in possession and out of possession."
Hull head coach Liam Rosenior told BBC Radio Humberside:
"Millwall changed their shape in the second half and we didn't keep the ball anywhere near as well as the first half.
"So it's frustrating to come away with only a point with how much control we had.
"But to see the way we played our way back into the game after conceding a poor goal was really great."
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