A goal in either half from Tyler Burey and Besart Toppaloj were enough for Millwall to defeat Crewe Alexandra in the Under-23 Professional Development League game at the Alexandra Stadium this afternoon.
Manager Alex Morris was named Dave Richards in goal as captain with a back 4 of Travis Johnson, Luke Offord, Billy Sass-Davies and Rio Adebisi in front of him. In midfield, Josh Lundstram and Joe Robbins played centrally with Aaron Lomas and Tyreece Onyewa on the flanks with Regan Griffiths playing off Connor Heath up front. On the bench were goalkeeper Sam Booth, Nathan Woodthorpe, Jamie Wrench, Jack Goodrich and Kyle Stubbs.
In a game of few chances, the visitors took the lead on the stroke of half-time with winger Burey scoring from a tight angle past Richards before they doubled their lead with 10 minutes left to play through left-back Toppaloj who scored a screamer from 25-yards into the top corner.
The next couple of games for the Under-23s are a trip to Birmingham City next Monday and the rearranged game against Runcorn Linnets in the Cheshire Senior Cup a couple of days later.
Crewe: Richards (c); Johnson, Offord, Sass-Davies (Goodrich 85), Adebisi; Lomas (Stubbs 65), Lundstram, Robbins, Onyewa (Woodthorpe 85); Griffiths; Heath
Millwall: Sandford, Brown, Toppaloj, Mitchell, Ransom, Strachan, Burey, Skeffington, Alexander, Duncan (Olaofe 75), Tiensia
