Championship Millwall 1 West Bromwich Albion 1 Full time

Millwall and West Bromwich Albion drew for the second time in the Championship this season

Millwall left-back Joe Bryan's unfortunate own goal cancelled out Jake Cooper's opener as the Lions drew with West Bromwich Albion at The Den.

Captain Cooper headed in after the home side thought they should have been awarded a penalty for handball against Baggies left-back Callum Styles.

The lead did not last long as Darnell Furlong's low cross flicked off the inside of Bryan's leg and trickled into the bottom corner for the equaliser - his second own goal in successive games.

A point means the visitors remain sixth in the table, while Millwall are 14th.

Jake Cooper opened the scoring with his third goal of the season

Millwall made a strong start to the match, with Cooper providing his usual danger at every set piece.

And after heading two early chances over the bar, he made no mistake with his third opportunity.

The Millwall fans were screaming for a penalty when Styles appeared to handle the ball in the box while under pressure from Aaron Connolly.

But the Lions players carried on as there was no whistle and Femi Azeez's whipped inswinging cross was headed in by Cooper for his third goal of the season and a thoroughly deserved lead for the home side.

There was more than a hint of good fortune about the equaliser, as Furlong's low cross from the right hit the inside of Bryan's leg and rolled into the corner.

The equaliser came very much against the run of play but turned the game on its head as momentum shifted in favour of the visitors, with Grady Diangana's deflected effort crashing back off the crossbar as the Baggies pushed for a second.

West Brom goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith produced a string of saves to deny the much improved Lions after the break, tipping another Cooper header over and denying Japhet Tanganga from the resulting corner.

Alex Neil sent on club record signing Camiel Neghli for his home Millwall debut and the Algerian forced a smart stop from Wildsmith before shooting from distance, with the keeper recovering well to prevent Luke Cundle from scoring on the rebound after spilling the original effort.

Baggies substitute John Swift dragged a shot agonisingly wide as the game entered added time, with the game ending after Azeez's deep cross bounced off Tristan Crama and out of play.

'Unfortunately we couldn't get across the line' - reaction

Millwall had six shots on target to West Brom's two

Millwall boss Alex Neil:

"Out of the four, maybe five, opportunities [in the last 15 minutes] you'd hope we'd take at least one of them, and we'd have deserved it.

"We'd have been talking about a really good performance, really good win. And don't get me wrong, we're still talking about a really good performance but just a bit unfortunate we've not been able to get across the line.

"I think it's important that after a bad defeat, and the manner in which it was [5-1 at Plymouth Argyle] that it didn't become any more than that.

"I was really pleased today but it would have been topped off if we'd have won the game. As far as application, aggression, understanding what it means, showing the passion on the pitch from the players - I thought they did it brilliantly."

West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Radio WM:

"We're disappointed with the draw, I always say to them 'we're here for the three points' because I genuinely believe we have better players than Millwall and the job for me is to make sure the talent we've got on the pitch gets the job done.

"They were really intense, as every time I've ever been to Millwall. If you don't fight your corner you are going to get beat and I think the team did fight their corner today.

"I just want them to be better so that we do come here and once we've seen the fight off, the first half say, the football takes over and the best team, which is us, pushes back and they're hanging on.

"That wasn't the case, if anything they were pushing the last five, 10 minutes of the game."