'At half-time I let them have it' - Harris
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Lions boss Neil Harris said his players didn't do the "Millwall basics" in the first half before they fought back to claim a last-gasp 1-1 draw against Sunderland.
Femi Azeez's equaliser deep in added time rescued a point for the hosts at The Den after Aaron Connolly had given the Black Cats the lead in the first half.
"At half-time I let them have it properly, because that's what it deserved," he told 大象传媒 Radio London.
"In the first half we didn't play with a Millwall identity or a Millwall intensity - the basics are: you win your duels, you win your headers, you win your races, you win your tackles and you play forward and run forward at the right times.
"Then [in the] second half we did. We played forward and ran forward, we played round, we played through, we played over and we created chances.
"We were a threat on set-plays and that's what a Millwall identity is, and we had it in abundance in the second half."
Millwall finished the match with five attackers as Harris' team pressed for the equaliser and it was Azeez and fellow substitute Aidomo Emakhu who combined for the goal.
On his substitutions, Harris added: "Sometimes just [throwing] caution to wind. When you're behind, sometimes you can do that.
"We were trying to get five players against their back four, trying to overload the midfield area and you just hope that you get a moment of quality and we had that."