Phil Brown was left in awe of what he saw the star doing in the Millwall vs Hull City match

Former manager Phil Brown was stunned when Hull City beat Millwall in the semi-finals.

Hull secured a Wembley place against Millwall

Substitutes Mohamed Belloumi and Joe Gelhardt ended Millwall's Premier League dream as Hull reached the Championship final.

The pair came off the bench for a 2-0 win in south London to book a Wembley date with Middlesbrough or Southampton a week on Saturday.

The Tigers only sneaked into the play-offs on the final day in sixth place and look like huge underdogs to go through after Friday's goalless home leg.

But now they will be asking to emulate the side inspired by Dean Windass of 2008 and Mohamed Diame's class of 2016, by sealing a return to the top flight for the first time in nine years.

The sold-out, raucous Den is a unique, intimidating venue and this was their biggest game since they reached the same stage in 2002.

An air of danger seemed to get to Hull's Liam Millar in the first period when his long-range effort slipped through his fingers and landed about three feet in front of him.

But Hull were ahead early on and Charlie Hughes forced a first-time save from Lions goalkeeper Anthony Patterson with a long-range header from Regan Slater's corner.

Millwall started to get up and running, along with a frenzied crowd, and Thierno Ballo saw an effort cleared off the line before Femi Azeez's angled drive was beaten away by Hull goalkeeper Ivor Pandur.

Hull rallied and John Egan headed Millar's ball high before Oli McBurnie's cross was palmed away by Patterson.

The visitors lost Kyle Joseph to injury shortly before half-time, but they almost pulled one back two minutes from the break. Slater got to the byline and played the ball back to McBurnie, whose cross on goal was robbed by Tristan Crama.

The breakthrough they had been threatening came in the 64th minute when Matt Crooks found Belloumi, who had replaced the beaten Joseph, in a corner on the right. The Algerian had time to cut inside with his right foot before curling a superb effort around Patterson and inside the far post.

The tie was wrapped up, and the Wembley coaches booked, when Belloumi fed Gelhardt, who had only two minutes left but held his own and beat Patterson and cleared the field.

Phil Brown was blown away by the “good” star.

Watching on, Brown couldn't help but express his shock at Belloumi's superb strike to put Hull ahead, telling BBC Sport: “It's a good goal, and a goal that deserves to win the game!

“We still have a long way to go, but that was a goal worthy of this stage. We expect quality in the Championship, but that was something else.”

Hull's fate will now be decided in the top flight, where they could finally return to the Premier League against either Southampton or Middlesbrough.