Leicester City boss Gary Rowett on draw with Millwall

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Leicester boss Gary Rowett spoke to BBC Sport following their 1-1 draw with Millwall.

"It was always going to be a tough evening knowing that we sealed our fate on Tuesday. There was a little bit of me wondering how we would respond and how we would perform.

"We spoke candidly about the need to be professional and the need to make sure that we did out jobs at the very least.

"The first half was probably an indication of Millwall just wanted the game a little bit more – they had more energy and ran with more intensity at times.

"In the second half we had a bit more energy and a bit more fight about our performance and the goal sums it up. I've spoken about wanting a bit more nastiness and a little more bloody-mindedness to score some scruffier goals in one box and to defend the other better.

"And Harry Souttar summed it up tonight, he headed everything out of our box and had real desire, along with Jannik [Vestergaard] and the one opportunity he gets in the other box, he attacks it like there is only one person that is going to score.

"We have missed that, and for someone to give us that after being out for 450-odd days is quite incredible."

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