Swansea City 2-2 Millwall: Two stoppage-time own goals earns point for Lions

Millwall hit back from a two-goal deficit for the second time in four days to snatch a point from a 2-2 draw with Swansea, with two own goals in added time wiping out the hosts' seemingly-impregnable lead.

Ryan Manning scored the first goal for Swansea inside a minute and Michael Obafemi made it 2-0 after 12 minutes.

Then in a frantic finish, own goals from Swansea defenders Harry Darling and Nathan Wood in the third and fifth minutes of added time turned what looked like a home win into a draw.

Ahead of the game, the crowd gave a round of applause in memory of former Swansea midfield player Lenny Johnrose, who died on Monday after a lengthy battle with motor neurone disease.

It took just a minute for the Swansea players to pay their tribute with the opening goal of the game.

Millwall failed to clear the ball in their area and a header from Olivier Ntcham allowed Manning to hammer home to give the home side the perfect start and notch the first goal of the season at the Swansea.Com Stadium.

There was no let-up from Russell Martin's men after that blistering start and Joel Latibeaudiere had a gilt-edged chance to double the lead four minutes later after Bartosz Bialkowski had parried a shot from Ntcham into his path. Unfortunately for Latibeaudiere, he could not quite get on top of the ball and his touch went over from five yards out.

Millwall saw very little of the ball, but showed they carried a threat when Jamie Shackleton fired against the crossbar in the 10th minute.

Unperturbed, Swansea regained possession and the excellent Kyle Naughton carried the ball deep into the Lions' half before picking out Obafemi on the edge of the box. He transferred the ball from his left to his right foot before smashing the ball into the left corner to double the lead.

The rest of the half was complete domination from the home side, who enjoyed 79% possession in the opening 25 minutes and 66% over the course of the first period as they sought to build on their win at Blackpool.

Millwall's frustration led to eight fouls and two yellow cards, to Tyler Burey and Billy Mitchell, while a challenge by Murray Wallace on Latibeaudiere led to him leaving the field on a stretcher midway through the half with a suspected dislocated shoulder.

The Lions livened up in the second half and had two appeals for penalties for handball - but both were waved away as they attempted to back up their heroics against Coventry last weekend, when they hit back from a two-goal deficit to win 3-2.

Then came the dramatic ending as they hit back with those two late strikes, with a bit of help from the home defence.

What the managers said...

Swansea's Russell Martin: "The ball goes out for a throw-in and one of our players not involved punches the ball back on the pitch. I'm absolutely furious about it and I've told him. That just can't happen. He punched the ball back to them to take a throw-in quickly and we concede a goal. It's those little moments that make a big difference. Whether you're on the bench, or whether you're not involved, you need to add value to your team somehow. That's certainly not adding value.

"For 93 or 94 minutes, we were by far and away the best team. Dominant, aggressive, everything we got criticised for against Blackburn, and rightly so in a lot of senses. I think the boys put it right tonight. We should have scored more goals. Millwall only had one shot on target before two of our defenders scored own goals. We should make more of our own chances in the final third. I have to take responsibility for it, I'm in charge of the mentality of the team. Even though we have so many young men on the pitch, we have to do better than we did."

Millwall's Gary Rowett: "It felt like the game had gone for us on 90 minutes, but we were still getting good chances. They had 18 shots to our 16, so we still had plenty of opportunities on goal. I was an assistant manager once when we were leading 5-2 with eight minutes to play and we ended up losing 6-5, so anything can happen. Even though they outpassed us and outplayed us, we hit the bar twice and we should have had two penalties. We had just as many good moments as they did.

"We want to be the team that keeps going to the last whistle. If we run out of time we run out of time, but we don't run out of character and effort in trying to turn the game around. I think teams will be fearful of our determination, but not our starts to games - that's pretty clear. I think we will improve and we're a team that will be hard to beat. But we've got to be more solid.

"We're staying overnight because we've got to go to Norwich on Friday night, so I think I'll let the boys have one beer after that. They deserve it for their effort at the end of the game, but I think while they are sipping it, they'll have to think about showing a little bit more belief. That's the important bit."