Wilkins: I think we can go up

Ray Wilkins believes that Millwall will never have a better chance of winning promotion.

The Championship club are currently four points behind sixth-placed Reading, who they visit on Tuesday night but they must first negotiate tomorrow's match at struggling Leicester.

"If you do have a chance of getting out of [the Championship] then I would have to say that this is your best chance for a few years," said the Millwall assistant manager. "Certainly the teams that are coming down are going to be of better quality than what's in the Championship at the moment, and the ones that remain in the Championship are going to reinforce so if we have got any hopes of getting out of this division, this year is possibly the best chance that we will have."

Millwall's task at Leicester will be made all the more difficult after Barry Hayles picked up an ankle injury in training. The former Fulham striker is likely to be replaced in attack by either Mark Quigley or Ben May. Longterm absentees Dennis Wise (thigh), Kevin Muscat (Achilles), Paul Ifill (ankle) have been joined on the sidelines by Alan Dunne (ankle), who had hoped to return from suspension for Tuesday's match at Reading.