16.59: Final whistle. Albion have saved themselves, says our man Steve Madeley. He calls the game “a Hawthorns classic”, adding that it was an amazing game for the neutrals. Albion fans - send us your reaction using the comment form below.
16.56: Injury time. Ledley shoots over for Cardiff, to the relief of Albion fans.
16.53: There’s still time for an Albion winner. Who would bet against it?
16.50: A Cardiff own goal levels this six goal thriller. Blushing defender Roger Johnson is the hero for Albion, putting into his own net from six yards.
16.48: Greening is booked for a foul on two-goal Parry.
16.44: Cardiff start to control things a bit more, frustrating Albion’s hopes of sharing the points.
16.39: It’s a thriller at the Hawthorns, says our man Madeley at the match. It’s all West Brom as Cardiff go deep to defend their lead. A penalty call following an apparent Cardiff handball is waved away by the ref.
16.33: Albrechtsen scores. He heads home Chris Brunt’s cross from six yards. As The Klaxxons recently put it: “It’s not over, not over, not over, not over yet.” Grace did the original in the 90s, mind you.
16.26: Albion almost get on back but are thwarted by the offside flag. Madeley: “They are throwing caution to the wind with only Barnett and Albrechtsen left back”.
16.19: The Baggies are really pressing but is a two-goal deficit too much to make up?
16.14: Albion pressing forward are caught on the break and Wolves target Joe Ledley makes it 3-1.
16.08: back underway at The Hawthorns.
15.53: After six minutes of injury time, it’s half time. Mr Mowbray will want to get his players fired up to come out and get the equaliser. Cardiff are looking dangerous, though.
15.49: Parry almost gets his hattrick but his effort goes over.
15.41: Hoefkens shoots over. Chris Brunt’s shot is caught by Oakes.
15.34: Albion pull one back. Sub Roman Bednar finds the net. He heads home Jonathan Greening’s free kick following a foul on Phillips.
15.33: Cardiff score again. Parry receives Hasselbank’s flick on and buries it past Kiely. Albion are in trouble now.
15.28: Shot by Kevin Phillips from 30 yards, is parried by Oakes. Teixeira’s corner is cleared. “It would have been a fine equaliser,” says our man Madeley.
15.26: Former Villa winger Peter Whittingham has a shot from 20 yards for Cardiff. It goes wide.
15.16: Ishmael Miller cannot continue so in-form Roman Bednar takes his place. The Hawthorns crowd was “stunned” by the early goal, according to our man at the game Steve Madeley. Who can blame them?
15.08: Hands up who expected that start? Kent Wolf says: “Come on you Baggies, you KNOW you can do better.”
15.01: Cardiff are in front straight away just 29 seconds on the clock. Paul Parry has too much room and fires over Kiely from 25 yards, the shot did take a little deflection and Albion have work to go.
15.00: Game kicks off at The Hawthorns.
14.55: Five minutes to kick off and The Hawthorns is filling up quickly for today’s game.
14.11: Mowbray goes with those who didn’t go the distance in midweek. Miller is preferred to Bednar upfront.
Three changes from the side which beat Charlton. Koren, Brunt and Phillips returning to the side.
Albion: Kiely, Hoefkens, Barnett, Pele, Albrechtsen, Teixeira, Greening, Koren, Brunt, Phillips, Miller.
Subs: Bednar, Gera, Steele, Hodgkiss, Morrison.
Thoughts on that Baggies fans?
14.00: Albion face arguably the Championship’s form side in Dave Jones’ Cardiff.
The Welsh outfit beat the Baggies at The Hawthorns in the Carling Cup earlier this season and will be out to repeat the dose.
But Mowbray’s men have the potential to stretch their gap at the top to a possible five points.
Nearest rivals Bristol City face a tough game at Crystal Palace and third placed Watford play Charlton.
32 Comments
In pastures green….
I hope & wish that Wolves can get some sort of run together & join you in the Promised Land that is the Premiership!
Good luck for today against Cardiff.
Come on you Baggies, you KNOW you can do better.
And so we did, despite the referee’s best efforts…
How much luck can one team get?
Own goal today,
no penalty other week, Robinson should have been sent off in the first half.
and still they will think they are superior to everyone else.
soon come back down to earth with a ban though.
why? didn’t the ref disallow all the cardiff goals for you because i heard you where terrible today.
but because you didn’t win it must be the refs fault.
mikey, mikey, mikey we ARE superior to most… most managers claim it… fans do… even the decent wolves fans… but you my friend are an idiot we had a goal disallowed, 2 penalties waved away, a team full of time wasters playing against us, an injured striker, an ex dingle who was intent on causing trouble, jimmy flloyd “my-ass-is-to-big” hasellbaink and away fans who attempted to invaded the smethwick and who chanted racist slur… focus on the dingles instead of us for once and start to praise others for doin well
Michael.
I think somewhere the E&S have a children’s page, come back when you grow up.
After todays game a couple of questions. What’s happened to Cesar, along with Albrechtson he’s our best central defender. I was wrong about Pele, he’s useful as cover in this position but too easily exposed. Barnett isn’t ready yet and looks very low on confidence. How long can we rely on outscoring our opponents. Come on Jeremy Peace, it’s time to get the cheque book out! Apart from the Chaplow money and the final parachute payment, there was a considerable difference in what we received close season to what we laid out. It’s only practical saving to spend in the close season if we get up. At the moment that’s possible but by no means a foregone conclusion. WE NEED A KEEPER AND AT LEAST ONE MORE CENTRAL DEFENDER. IF YOU COCK IT UP FROM THIS POSITION MR PEACE YOU WANT SHOOTING. I’ve not become like our neighbours and started having a go for the sake of it and I hope I’m not getting things out of proportion but we may never be in such a good position again.
4, yes we did, paul robinsons.
Looks like our “bad patch” is continuing, playing crap but still getting points, just wait till we wake up again and watch us fly up to the holy land.
Lucky Baggie,s got out of trouble with a bit of luck,you need to change the old boy boy between the sticks before you sink any lower.Lets have your comment then The Real Bully.
don’t be so bitter & twisted no.4 there was no luck about that stirring fight back other than cardiff being lucky to get out with a point still intact!!
What a game, superb entertainment, classic end to end football, and we nearly nicked all three points at the end, couldnt see from the smethwick, but zolly’s shotlooked very close. The substitutions made a huge impact, alby is solid at centre, zolly was superb, and morrisson is turning into a fantastic player. Still top, still looking good, 18 nail biters to go
I assume 4 is a wulf-funny how you can hear a pin drop until they win a game,then they come here ranting.Judging by their form,that’ll be half a dozen rants this season.By the way,can you feel the jealousy oozing out the dingles words?
4 Say what?
After the great PAURA of another first place malediction our Baggies get a draw and an HEROIC performance!
C’mon the Premiers are waiting for us.
Giuseppe, Baggies fan from Italy
Begining of the day ths would be a terrible result, but after the defensive performence (terrible) it was a good result
to michael: Luck its not luck, its just the fact we are better than u
WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE!
Michael said: Jan 19th, 2008 at 5:06 pm How much luck can one team get?
Do you mean 59% posession wba or shoots on target wba 9 cardiff 3 or maby corners wba 6 cardiff 2. Or maby just luck
Or maby that Miller was injuried early on. Good luck to ypur team also
michael 4 the reason we think we are superior to everyone else is because we are,as for the own goal it was scored through intense pressure on the cardiff goal,as for luck we had a perfectly good goal ruled out for off side,prem here we come
boing boing
C’mon you baggies! you must do better, we need you to beat teams that are above us in the league if we are to join you in the PREM.
That’s because we are superior to everyone else and should have won at the end! Cardiff are a club in form and could not defeat the mighty baggies! Boing Boing, another point towards the title as Watford and Bristol dropped points. The dingles think it’s Christmas because they have won one game. Oh how to be so poor!
GET BIG DAVE IN BOING BOING
Wow… a superb ending to a nerve jangling match. We were really off the pace of things for the first hour or so but our supporters drove the team on to a vital point in the end. Have to say that the refereeing was shocking as was the constant play acting of the cardiff players that ultimately led to a total of 12 minutes injury time. And (4) luck has nothing to do with it… we just need to sort out the defense now because we’ll struggle to maintain our grip on the top spot unless things tighten up at the back.
even when we draw, we draw in style!
to be fair, they seemed very nervous playing in front of such a big crowd !
I said a few weeks ago we need a keeper AND a quality,respected central defender,just to guarantee automatic promotion.I asked the chairman not to be too tight, just careful.So far,the keeper (Danek?) isn’t coming because we won’t meet the terms,and no word about a defender.If we slip up,it will cost us many millions,so why not spend a bit of the big profit we made in the summer?The club is well run,but sometimes Peace seems to have sewn his pockets up.
Terry from Walsall what a repertoire. I bet you still say DADA, TATA, GOOGOO as well as BING BONG sorry I mean BOING BOING whatever that means!!!
I wuz thur as usual, not the best especially first half but like Marcwba16 said :
WE ARE TOP THE LEAGUE, WE ARE TOP THE LEAGUE.
WE ARE TOP THE LEAGUE, WE ARE TOP THE LEAGUE!
Get the check out jerramy and buy a goalkeeper and defenders, we wont get to the promised land with the clowns who are there at the moment.If the baggies had a decent defence we would be at least ten points clear at the top of the league by no.We don’t want to have a bad run like watford before you start spending the season ticket holders cash
A small note to terrywalsallbaggie re his rant about Wolves’s armchair fans:
In my case I’m a Disabled supporter,though in the past, when I was fit, I was a season ticket holder, then a match day steward.
In my 50 years I have been to over 2,000 games home, away, reserves Internationals & Africans Nations.
You’d begrudge me the comfort of listening from the comfort of my “Armchair”
HOW DARE YOU!
p.s. Big Dave was pants this weekend for Derby!
28 frankthegas:
“we wont get to the promised land with the clowns who are there at the moment”
You will, but you might do a Derby & struggle.
Maybe missing out on promotion last year was’nt so bad after all!
Big IQ Rich.
Commenting on a game that you haven’t seen shows good use of imagination, a major step forward for you. Still nothing worth reading but well done for trying. Keep it up.
10 - Bit thick rich - “before we sink any lower”…. err, that will be us widening the gap as we are still TOP OF THE LEAGUE !!