By Jay Taylor
WELLING continued their preparations for the new Conference Premier season with victory against a youthful Millwall outfit at Park View Road.
Kiernan Hughes-Mason, Malik Ouani, Doug Bergqvist and Fraser Franks completed the scoring for the hosts, with Charlie Penny and Ben Thompson on target for the visitors.
Welling started the brighter of the two sides and it took them only 18 minutes to open the scoring.
Hughes-Mason poked home from six-yards in what looked like an offside position and although the linesman flagged, the referee overruled the decision and fortunately for Welling the goal stood.
Millwall's slow start caused them even more trouble just before the half hour when Wings wide man Ouani picked possession up on the right, cut in onto his left and fired high into Lions keeper Denzil Gerrard's net.
Early Millwall substitute Charlie Penny halved the deficit five minutes later with a well-worked goal.
Aiden O'Brien did well to avoid losing possession before knocking a pass to trialist Ben Reeves.
The former Southampton man slid a sublime through-ball between the Welling defence for Penny to round Sam Mott in the Wings goal and cooly despatch his shot into an empty net.
Millwall made up for their slow start by being the brighter of the two sides after the interval.
But Scott Fitzgerald's young Lions found themselves 3-1 down against the run of play 20 minutes into the second half.
Gerrard handled outside his area and escaped with only a free-kick to deal with.
The set piece was tipped over by the visiting stopper but from the resulting corner, Bergqvist headed in a third for the Conference South champions.
Welling, who were below par in the second period after outplaying Millwall in the first period, made it 4-1 with quarter of an hour remaining.
The Wings won a free-kick 25 yards out and with Millwall making four substitutes prior to the set piece being taken, organisation was lacking as the ball was laid off to Franks, who rifled home a hard and low shot past Gerrard.
Millwall added a consolation ten minutes from time when Penny's free-kick was knocked across the face of goal by Alfie Pavey before Thompson finished from close range.
Welling's next pre-season is against Leyton Orient on Friday evening (7.30pm), while Millwall's first team begin their preparations for the new campaign at Crawley Town on Saturday (3pm).
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