Millwall manager Kenny Jackett praised his side's battling qualities after they advanced to the FA Cup fifth round with a 3-2 victory over Southampton at St Mary's.
The Lions were a goal down with 11 minutes remaining of the fourth-round replay, but former Saints loanee Dany N'Guessan levelled before Liam Feeney struck a superb stoppage-time winner.
Millwall, who are struggling in the npower Championship, now face a home tie with Bolton and Jackett believes his side can take confidence from Tuesday night's win and Saturday's narrow 2-1 defeat at rivals West Ham.
"I felt there were two good performances at West Ham and Southampton," he said.
"We didn't get the rub of the green against West Ham but the players should take some confidence from the way we have just played against the top two sides in the division.
"It was an excellent game tonight. We played our part.
"We caused them lots of problems. I think both sides went for it and from a neutral's point of view I am sure it was an excellent game.
"We showed good spirit, a lot of quality on the ball and scored three very good goals.
"If we can do that against a side that has been as successful as Southampton, we should be able to take that bit of confidence from that win into our league form against Derby County and Brighton away."
Millwall started the match strongly and broke the deadlock after 17 minutes when Liam Trotter struck home.
Adam Lallana pegged the visitors back with a superb solo goal and after the break substitute Rickie Lambert fired Southampton into the lead.
However, N'Guessan and Feeney goals extinguished Saints' hopes of progression - much to manager Nigel Adkins' disappointment.
The Southampton boss did not attend the post-match press conference but hit out at his side on BBC Radio Solent.
"It is not a good night for us," he said. "Obviously we wanted to win the tie and we felt we had enough on the pitch to go and do that.
"When you get yourselves 2-1 in front you should go and see the game out.
"The first half-hour was not good enough - the players are well aware of that.
"When we changed our shape to the diamond we got control of the football because we were chasing shadows, it is fair to say, in the first half. We got nowhere near them.
"Once we changed the shape we were far better in control of it and could have gone on to score four or five goals in the second half.
"Ben Reeves had a goal disallowed which was actually a very good goal and wasn't offside, so the linesman made a mistake on that.
"But the three goals we conceded tonight and a few opportunities we presented Millwall summed up the way we have conceded goals this season.
"It is not acceptable."
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