New Millwall boss Alex Neil believes there were encouraging signs from his first match in the dugout despite losing to Oxford United.

Neil, who took over on Monday, insisted he had learned plenty from the defeat, which leaves the Lions with just one win in their past 11 matches.

“I learned a lot from the fact we’ve not been the type of team who dominates the ball, and you can see that, and you can hear that,” he said.

“The minute we were maybe making two or three passes along the back, there was a little bit of agitation in the crowd.

“I think for all the volume, our opportunities we had in wide areas, I looked at the stats and we had double the amount of final-third entries, we had double the amount of touches in the box, but we just didn’t have that killer instinct to get the goal when we needed it.”

He added: “You could see the disappointment in the lads after the game, where we’ve lost a match. I didn’t think it was a poor performance, I thought there were some really good bits to like about it, but there’s certainly stuff for us to work on.”

Millwall are next in action with an away game at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.