Albion 3 Sunderland 0
Saturday 25th April 2009, 3:00PM BST.
Albion rampage to a rare win through Jonas Olsson, Chris Brunt and sub Juan Carlos Menseguez.
16:52: Full-time whistle blows.
16:46: Nifty footwork from Mensenguez sees him stroke the ball into the net, the points are safe.
16:43: Fortune’s effort goes wide of the post.
16:22: Juan Carlos Menseguez makes his third Albion appearance as a sub, Graham Dorrans makes way.
16:17: The first moment of note in the second-half ends with Chris Brunt scoring from close range, after a Marc Antoine Fortune cross.
16:13: Richardson gets the cross in for Sunderland, in rushes Danny Collins but he heads over the bar.
16:03: Second-half begins.
15:47: Half-time whistle blows – only the third time this season the Baggies have led at the interval.
15:42: Former Albion winger Kieran Richardson lets fly from 25 yards – Carson has to deal with it.
15:40: Jonathan Greening’s corner is met by Jonas Olsson at the far post on the half volley and Albion are ahead!
15:28: Reid – always a threat from set pieces – puts a ball into the box that former Wolves loan winger Carlos Edwards gets his head to, but goes over the bar inside the area.
15:25: In-form Albion winger Chris Brunt breaks free and get his shot away, but Sunderland goalkeeper Marton Fulop saves comfortably.
15:17: Albion right-back Gianni Zuiverloon’s wild lunge of a shot goes wide of the goal.
15:08: Andy Reid tries his luck for Sunderland, Albion goalkeeper Scott Carson is equal to it.
15:00: Game kicks off.
14:30: Teams in at the Hawthorns: -
Albion: Carson, Zuiverloon, Meite, Olsson, Robinson, Koren, Dorrans, Greening, Brunt, Simpson, Fortune.
Subs: Kiely, Filipe Teixeira, Menseguez, Martis, Borja Valero, Mulumbu, Wood.
Sunderland: Fulop, Bardsley, Davenport, Ferdinand, Collins, Edwards, Tainio, Reid, Richardson, Cisse, Jones.
Subs: Colgan, Whitehead, Malbranque, Murphy, Leadbitter, Healy, McShane.
Referee: Mark Halsey (Lancashire)
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COME ON YOU BAGGIES! Fantastic win!
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Come on you Baggies!!! Great win, marred only by the idiot with the ‘Peace Out’ banner.
Seriously, what are you trying to achieve? The club’s the most stable it’s ever been and we’re just causing unrest and turmoil before we’re even relegated, at a time when the club needs to stick together, all in the hope of what?!!!
The return of Trevor Summers?! Peter Ridsale?
It might not be great, but it’s still the best it’s been for 30 years, and some idiots are gonna ruin it by de-stabilising the club until we’re back where we were in the late 80′s/early 90′s.
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get behind the club,i remember when we’d got stacey north and neil parsley in our team crikey some people got short memories,we’re going in the right direction,lay off
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great result albion ,although the wolves are promoted, i do hope that you peform the great escape 2 and keep in the premiership keep boinging !!
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A good win but maybe its all too late.
having heard Mowbray’s comments last week regarding Luke Moore I don’t care how bad he is in training he can’t be as bad a Simpson is on a match day, why oh why did he pick him!!!!
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