Murray Wallace reacts to amazing day for Leeds United loanee at Millwall after Stoke win

Millwall started the new Championship campaign well by storming to a 2-0 win over Stoke at the weekend – and speaking to London News Online about it, Murray Wallace was quick to heap the praise on Charlie Cresswell.

The 19-year-old player has joined the Lions on a loan deal from Leeds this summer and it marks the first time he has played away from the Whites in his career. However, the youngster has already made his mark in the Championship by firing in both goals in that Stoke game.

He got the start at the Den on Saturday and despite being a centre-back, he bagged both goals in that game to send his team home happy.

It’s not a bad debut to have for the defender and having helped lead his side to that victory, one of his new teammates in Murray Wallace praised the ability of the youngster and claimed it was a ‘brilliant’ showing from Cresswell over the course of the fixture.

Speaking about the player to London News Online then, he said: “He [Cresswell] was brilliant, we look at Coops [Jake Cooper] and think he’s the main threat. Unselfishly a lot of times he took a lot of defenders away and left space for me and Cressy.

“Cressy could’ve had another, two brilliant goals from him and what a start. It’s something that we’ve worked on, Coops is definitely not always going to be a decoy. He’s buzzing, I’ve just asked him if that’s his first professional goals and it was. I was telling him about Danny Mac and how he was waiting on his first professional goal and two came along at the same time.”

Murray Wallace plays alongside Cresswell at the back for Millwall, although he has also been deployed on the left too. Having been with the Lions since 2018, he’s racked up nearly 150 games for the club and will certainly know a good