Lack of passion angers Kenny Jackett

Heavy loss: Millwall's John Marquis (left) battles Richard Stearman at Molineux
11 April 2012

Kenny Jackett accused his Millwall side of a lack of passion and enthusiasm after they were brushed aside 5-0 by Wolves in their Carling Cup third-round tie at Molineux.

The Lions endured a nightmare start to proceedings having found themselves 2-0 down after just seven minutes following David Edwards' early opener and Adam Hammill's free-kick.

George Elokobi added a third before the end of a one-way first half and, although it was a more balanced encounter after the break, James Spray fired a fourth - which was being claimed by Sam Vokes post-match - and Adlene Guedioura completed a miserable night for the npower Championship outfit with a sweet 30-yard strike.

The Lions have now won just one of their last seven in all competitions, and Jackett said: "It was a poor performance, I feel for the 200 or 300 fans who came up from London.

"Poor start, poor goals we gave away, not enough fightback after that, not enough passion and we fell away. It's a very poor run of games for us at the moment. I was looking for more tonight. As I said, we started poorly and got well beaten.

"I thought there was a lack of passion and lack of enthusiasm, definitely."

Jackett is now looking for his side to rise to the challenge and produce a much-improved performance when league matters resume at Derby this weekend.

"We've got a chance on Saturday to remedy that and I'll select the right side and start working on putting this type of performance right," he added.

"We started poorly and never really got to grips with a talented Wolves side."

Wanderers boss Mick McCarthy will have taken little pleasure from piling the misery on the club he ended his playing career with and subsequently cut his managerial teeth in the early 1990s.

But he was certainly happy to get back to winning ways after back-to-back Barclays Premier League defeats, and also to get among the goals having previously fired three successive blanks.

McCarthy was clear in stressing his obvious disappointment following Saturday's abject 3-0 home defeat to QPR, but felt tonight was the perfect way to bounce back.

"We only had one bad performance and of course, it's in the Barclays Premier League, it looked awful, it was awful," he said. "It didn't make my lads a bad team, tonight was just the response we needed.

"It was a good performance and a much-needed victory to be honest for all of us, a much better performance."

McCarthy added: "We started well, two goals up after seven minutes. It's always nice to score goals, of course.

"If you get the goals like we did early on then it makes it a difficult night for any team."

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