Goals from Jed Wallace Steve Morison gave Millwall a 2-0 victory over play-off rivals Bristol City at The Den and kept up their charge towards the play-offs.

Wallace put the Lions in front with a beautiful curling effort before Morison’s fourth goal of the season made the points safe.

The victory moves Millwall up to 7th in the table and remain just a point behind sixth-placed Middlesbrough, who thumped Nottingham Forest at the Riverside.

It also extends the Lions’ unbeaten Championship run to 15 games, with ten victories in that period.

Millwall have still not tasted defeat at The Den and have gone more than 300 minutes without conceding on their own turf after three successive clean sheets at The Den.

Neil Harris named the same starting XI side for the fifth consecutive game and a ninth time in ten, with Tom Elliott’s outing at Hull last month the only altercation.

Bristol City made the brighter start to the game, but it was home side that took the lead with the first attempt on target in the game. Ben Marshall played a neat one-two with Wallace before the latter curled the most delightful strike into the top-right hand corner from the tightest of angles.

Shaun Williams tried to double Millwall’s lead from distance, but his 30-yard strike was comfortable for Frank Fielding in the City goal. Wallace had an even better chance to add to the score line, but after racing forward he could only fire straight at Fielding.

The task of trying to break down the Championships fourth meanest defence this was proving to be quite some task for the Robins and were restricted to mainly long-shots in a tight opening period.

Nathan Baker was next to have go, but his ambitious effort was 30-yards was unable to test Jordan Archer in the Lions goal.

Wallace tried to chip Fielding right at the start of the second-half, but the Bristol City man easily saved before the Joe Bryan’s curling free-kick was inches from finding the far corner.

Millwall doubled their lead soon after as Lee Gregory and Morison combined before the Lions captain advanced forward and fired high into the top corner to leave Fielding with no chance.

Harris’ side continued to dominate and should have added a third, but Gregory, Morison and George Saville were all denied by a combination of Fielding and the City defence, on the line.

The home side had a chance to put gloss on the score line, but Williams could only head wide from a corner, despite being unchallenged.

Tim Cahill, Fred Onyedinma and Jason Shackell were all introduced for Millwall and despite Bristol City trying everything they could to try and find a route back into the game, the Lions held firm to record their seventeenth clean sheet of the campaign.