Substitute George Saville scored a goal in the seventh minute of second-half stoppage-time as Millwall claimed a 2-0 Championship victory away to Plymouth.
Millwall’s 59th-minute opening goal scorer Zian Flemming set up Saville to fire the ball into the roof of the net as Millwall countered after soaking up late Argyle pressure.
The home side took the game to their visitors from the off, with Morgan Whittaker’s second-minute shot having to be well saved by diving Bartosz Bialkowski.
Adam Randell nearly profited from the rebound, sending a shot just past the post from 20 yards.
Scottish striker Ryan Hardie created Argyle’s next best chance, twisting and turning down the right-hand side of the box before teeing up midfielder Finn Azaz, whose first time shot from the edge of the penalty area flew inches wide after 24 minutes.
The hosts continued to press for the opener and – two minutes later – livewire right back Kaine Kesler-Hayden forced another save from Bialkowski as he finished off a teasing run into the box with a rising drive.
Whittaker created another chance when his incisive pass found fellow playmaker Azaz, who – in turn – teed up Bali Mumba, whose first time shot from the left flew wide.
Still Argyle pressed with top scorer Hardie and Azaz exchanging passes before Hardie let fly from range, again going down the outside of the goal.
Millwall started the second half brighter with Duncan Watmore breaking into the Argyle box and letting fly, forcing central defender Dan Scarr to turn the shot away for a corner.
From the flag kick, Millwall’s Plymouth-born defender Ryan Leonard headed wide of goal.
The home side’s response was swift with Whittaker sending a low curling shot from the right past Bialkowski and the far post.
Whittaker went even closer after 56 minutes with a dipping shot from 20 yards which forced Bialkowski to turn the ball over his crossbar.
For all their pressure, Argyle were finding it difficult to break down a resolute Millwall defence and the away side turned that to their advantage approaching the hour on the counter.
Watmore’s inch-perfect defence-splitting pass into the Plymouth penalty area put Flemming in on goal and he made no mistake, calmly slotting the ball home past goalkeeper Conor Hazard.
The goal spurred Argyle into another wave of attacks and led to Plymouth boss Steven Schumacher introducing attacking midfielder Luke Cundle and forward Mustapha Bundu.
Mumba again tested Bialkowski with a stinging 82nd-minute shot from the edge of area and, although the Millwall goalkeeper could not hold the ball, his defence cleared it for another corner.
As the game entered stoppage time, Argyle continued to press but the Millwall defence held firm with Azaz being forced to try his luck from long range, to no avail.
The visitors managed to clear the ball in a frantic stoppage goalmouth scramble before scoring a second goal on the break through Saville.
Indonesia 0-4 Japan: Visitors stay unbeaten with rout
Japan continued their unbeaten start to World Cup qualifying with a 4-0 victory over Indonesia on Friday.
Two goals from the visitors in either half were enough to seal the three points and get them back to winning ways after a stalemate with Australia last time out.
Ragnar Oratmangoen should have put Indonesia ahead, but he hesitated one-on-one with the goalkeeper, and Japan did not look back after that. They got a bit of fortune with their first goal, Justin Hubner deflecting a cross into his own net in the 35th minute.
Takumi Minamino got their second just before the break, finishing off a pacy counter-attack by darting onto the end of Kaoru Mitoma’s cross to sweep it past Maarten Paes.
While there was not much the goalkeeper could do with that one, he was at fault for the third as he gifted the ball to Hidemasa Morita, who coolly picked out the bottom corner just after the break.
Yukinari Sugawara came off the bench to round off the scoring in the 69th minute. He raced down the right wing and instead of looking to his options, he rifled it in from a tight angle at the near post.
Japan are up to 13 points after five games, sitting top of Group C, while Indonesia are bottom, still in search of their first win.
Data Debrief: Clinically done
For a team still chasing their first win, Japan are probably not high on the list of opponents they would want to face, and Indonesia were undone by their visitors.
Hajime Moriyasu's side created 0.79 expected goals (xG) to Indonesia's 0.72, while they only had four more shots than their hosts (12 compared to eight).
Japan took their chances, and though the win margin may look harsh, they were deserving of the three points, having dominated throughout the game.
Jamaica 0-1 United States: Pepi give visitors advantage in Nations League quarter-final
Ricardo Pepi's first-half strike gave the United States a 1-0 advantage over Jamaica after the first leg of their Concacaf Nations League quarter-final.
The hosts saw a penalty saved in the first half before their frustrations were compounded late on thanks to Mason Holgate's red card.
The USA had the lead just five minutes in – having smothered a Jamaica attack at one end, the visitors caught them out with a pacy counter-attack, with Pepi sweeping it into the back of the net.
Shortly after, Shamar Nicholson was brought down by Matt Turner when he tried to take it around him, but the goalkeeper made amends, diving low to his right to deny Demarai Gray from 12 yards.
In the second half, Holgate was denied a tap-in by Yunus Musah before Turner scrambled to stop Leon Bailey's corner from nestling into the net as Jamaica searched for an equaliser.
With 86 minutes on the clock, Holgate received a second yellow card in just over 10 minutes for dragging Brandon Vazquez back, meaning he will miss the return leg in Missouri on Monday.
Data Debrief: Hitting the mark
Pepi got the all-important goal on Thursday, and is the fourth player to score 12 goals for the USA before turning 22 years old, joining Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore and Christian Pulisic.
But it was perhaps Turner who actually had the most vital interventions; he has now saved three of the eight penalties he's faced for the USA, including two against Jamaica.
Mauricio Pochettino also could not have asked for a better result from his first competitive game in charge of the Stars and Stripes as he became just the third full-time manager to win his first competitive away match, joining Bob Bradley (2008) and Steve Sampson (1996).
Real Madrid hit Twente for seven, five-star Wolfsburg also win big
Real Madrid had six different goalscorers as they trounced Twente 7-0 in the Women's Champions League on Wednesday, while Wolfsburg beat Galatasaray 5-0.
Signe Bruun opened the scoring three minutes into the Group B encounter at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano, then Maria Mendez's header gave Madrid a 2-0 half-time lead.
Madrid, who had won one and lost one of their opening two games in the tournament, got a third through Naomie Feller five minutes into the second half, then Caroline Weir made it 4-0 with a brilliant free-kick.
Mendez headed home her second of the encounter shortly after the hour mark, while Oihane Hernandez and Carla Camacho got on the scoresheet late on to complete the rout.
The victory took Madrid second in the Group B standings ahead of Chelsea's trip to Celtic.
Wolfsburg were also convincing victors in Group A, getting off the mark for this season's competition as Rebecka Blomqvist scored a hat-trick in their 5-0 thrashing of Galatasaray.
The Bundesliga side – who failed to pick up a point or score a goal in their opening two matches – had a narrow 1-0 lead at half-time through Joelle Wedemeyer, before Blomqvist took centre-stage in the second period.
She tapped home after Janina Minge struck the crossbar, then added her second goal in the 77th minute and her third six minutes into stoppage time.
Vivien Endemann powered home a fifth for Wolfsburg one minute later, as they provisionally moved within three points of Lyon and Roma ahead of their meeting.
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