Femi Azeez’s goalscoring streak continued as Millwall made it four Sky Bet Championship wins in a row with a 1-0 victory over Leicester at The Den.
Azeez has scored in all four of those as his well-taken winner kept the Lions – who had a penalty from Mihailo Ivanovic saved in the second half – third in the table.
For the Foxes, however, this was a second defeat of the week and the team relegated from the Premier League last season have now won just one of their last eight games.
Despite going into the game in worse form, Leicester began the most purposeful and had a good opening after 10 minutes when Aaron Ramsey shot straight at Millwall goalkeeper Max Crocombe.
But they almost handed the home side the lead two minutes later when goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk had to make amends for a poor kick by keeping out Azeez’s shot with his right foot.
Azeez was the threat again for the Lions when his effort across goal was parried by Stolarczyk, with the rebound just evading the lurking Ivanovic.
The hosts had settled well after weathering the early storm from the Foxes, but after previously creating chances against the run of play, they struggled to do likewise after starting to control proceedings.
But they found a breakthrough in the 44th minute through a now familiar route as Azeez superbly brought down Casper De Norre’s long ball in the area before lifting his shot beyond Stolarczyk.
That gave Millwall a half-time lead they will feel they deserved, and Leicester suffered a further setback early in the second half when they lost Ramsey, one of their brighter performers, to injury.
The Lions had a huge opportunity to double their lead in the 56th minute after Harry Winks wiped out Azeez inside the area to concede a penalty, but Ivanovic’s kick was saved by Stolarczyk who guessed correctly in diving to his right.
Azeez continued to torment the visiting defence – who had just been given a huge let-off – as he bent a shot wide from outside the area having cut in from the right wing.
An equaliser for Leicester did not appear to be forthcoming, with their first threatening effort of the second half being an overhead kick from substitute Julian Carranza that flew over in the 76th minute.
Jordan James then bent wide from outside the box as the Foxes’ urgency unsurprisingly grew in the game’s closing stages.
The closest they came to snatching a point, however, was in the fifth minute of stoppage time when Patson Daka’s header from James’ cross was held by Crocombe.
