MILLWALL suffered their second 3-0 defeat on the bounce as they were well beaten by West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns.

After an evenly-matched first half, the Baggies struck five minutes after the interval through Isaac Price, then added two more late on in transition.

Millwall huffed and puffed but hardly got on the ball. When they did they were ineffectual going forward, with Caleb Taylor’s late header the only time they forced Max O’Leary into a save.

The Lions have now lost four out of their last six games heading into the international break, and badly need a response against Queens Park Rangers in two weeks time if they want to revive their season.

After another rousing Remembrance Day tribute, the two sides kicked off on a gloomy afternoon in the Midlands, and it was the hosts who started quicker.

The Baggies dominated early possession, winning a corner that Aune Heggebo headed over the bar. The Norwegian striker then had another effort in the box blocked a minute later.

West Brom continued to have the majority of the ball for the rest of the half, although it rarely felt like the Lions were under siege. They won a string of set-pieces, all around the half-way line, although most were wasted by players drifting off-side.

The first instance of that ruined what was nearly one of the goals of season. Jake Cooper, who was immediately flagged as offside, nodded down the free kick and Kyrell Lisbie’s overhead kick hit the bar.

That routine continued for the rest of the half. Millwall would look to hit West Brom on the counter or hurt them at set-pieces, while the Baggies passed it around in midfield or on the edge of the box, often too slowly to cause the Lions’ back four any trouble.

As has often been the case, Lisbie was Millwall’s liveliest attacker and he burst into the box after the ball was played out to him on the left, only to have his shot blocked by Brayann Pereira. Up the other end, West Brom won a free kick that Ousmane Diakite headed over.

Millwall’s best chance of the half fell to Josh Coburn. The Lions picked up the loose ball following a free kick and Zak Sturge worked it to Camiel Neghli, who curled in a lovely cross. Coburn swung at it but got his first-time volley entirely wrong, and it bounced limply past the post.

West Brom had a few decent chances right before the interval. They punted it long and Jimmy-Jay Morgan went down claiming a shove by Zak Sturge. Heggebo picked up the loose ball and hit the sidenetting from a tight angle. Jayson Molumby then forced Crocombe to tip a long-range effort over the bar.

Millwall still entered the interval in a strong position after a respectable first-half performance.

They would quickly waste that by conceding typically soft goal five minutes after the restart. Molumby played it forward to Isaac Price, who drove at a retreating Millwall back line and curled it into the bottom corner from well outside the box, with Max Crocombe again too slow to react.

The Lions needed a response but rarely looked like providing one, despite Alex Neil making four attacking changes.

Instead, the hosts looked far more threatening, countering time and time again before eventually scoring their second. Zak Sturge and Caleb Taylor dawdled on the ball too long and coughed it up to Felix Horn Myhre, whose cutback Crocombe palmed straight into Molumby’s path, and the ex-Lion tapped it into the net.

Kareem Tunde, who was excellent off the bench, then fired an effort into Crocombe’s hands, while Myhre scuffed an shot wide.

Taylor nearly pulled one back late on against his former club, forcing Max O’Leary to tip his header onto the bar from Tairyk Arconte’s cross.

West Brom then hit on the break for their third and final goal. Tunde danced past several defenders, found Price, who squared it for Myhre to fire in at the back post.

West Bromwich Albion: 4-4-1-1 – O’Leary; Pereira, Philips, Mepham, Styles; Nzingoula (Tunde 75), Molumby, Diakite, Price; Morgan (Mhyre 63); Heggebo (Stewart 63)

Unused substitutes: Ingram, Townsend, Bany, Whitwell, Maughan, Crowther

Millwall: 4-2-3-1 – Crocombe; Osei-Tutu (Arconte 80), Cooper, Taylor, Sturge; Mazou-Sacko (Sykes 46), Metcalfe; Lisbie (Doughty 71), Cundle (Esse 71), Neghli; Coburn (Dykes 54′)

Unused substitutes: Evans, Ivanovic, Baggott, Kelly

Referee: Thomas Bramall