Albion 2 Manchester City 1
Wednesday 22nd September 2010, 10:00PM BST.
Albion scored twice in three minutes to dump big-spending Manchester City out of the Carling Cup in a pulsating clash at the Hawthorns.
Gianni Zuiverloon and Simon Cox struck the Baggies goals, as Roberto Di Matteo’s second string dominated their visitors throughout the match to fully justify their win.
But they had to fight back from 1-0 down after Jo’s brilliant first-half finish gave Roberto Mancini’s much-changed side a 1-0 lead at half-time.
Jo blasted City in front on 19 minutes against the run of play with a crisp first-time finish, after Abdoulaye Meite and Zuiverloon had failed to deal with a high ball.
But Albion held the upper hand and recalled City goalkeeper Shay Given had to make three fine saves to deny the home side, who also saw Cox and Roman Bednar miss excellent chances.
The Baggies drew level when Zuiverloon got the benefit of the doubt following a apparent shove and made no mistake with a crisp low shot that nestled into the bottom corner.
Then Cox then played a neat one-two with Bednar before finishing with precision to put the Baggies in front.
City pressed for an equaliser but Albion held firm, with goalkeeper Boaz Myhill pulling off a smart low save from James Milner.
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The baggies are no longer a team that rolls over and gives in,
we are a strong organised team to be proud of now.
well done to all concerned especially rdm.
Boing Boing!!
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Not bad for a second string side, a thoroughly deserved win, maybe we should always go 1-0 down then we come into our own! Well done lads and bring on the dingles!!!
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Great result from the players who can’t seem to get in the first team at present, with a back up squad like this things are looking really promising at the Albion.
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Robbie is really starting to come into his own as a manager, the man is tactically very astute. Great result for our reserves the Shrine is starting to become a fortress, teams now know that they are in for a tough game when they visit the hawthorns. Well done to RDM and his backroom staff the whole squad seem to be very comfortable with each other and RDM,S tactics. Keep up the good work lads, i for one am very proud to be a Baggie at the moment..
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Roberto,
Have you got an office door left, after all the players who are not in the team are knocking hell out of it?. How ALBION didn’t win eight- one or more I’ll never know. First half we absolutely ran MANCHESTER CITY ragged.
Tchoyi was blistering down the left, Ibanez rock solid in the middle. Zuiverloon should be converted into a striker. Cox did a great job olso helped out a the back. Dorrans and
Shorey top quality. For all the others I haven’t mentioned, us BAGGIES are realy proud of your fighting spirit and never say die attitude. Thank you for yet another great nights entertaining football against some of
the Premierships big guns. Again thank you Roberto.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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How did we go in 1-0 down after that first half display????
Ten changes and we dominated the game. We now have a squad instead of a team.
Shorey and Dorrans were superb. Pablo looked very assured and impressive. Tchoyi was a handful all night but most of all it was another very good performance from the whole team. They worked hard for each other and showed great spirit.
Well done to the fans that turned up for making it sound as if there were a lot more than there were.
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Fantastic result and with a second string side also. Man City, although they also fielded a second string side, they still had 11 players that would walk into most Premiership sides.
This will also give us much needed confidence ahead of the weekend.
Bring on the Arsenal!!
BOING BOING!!!
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Just back from the game, what a performance, we have REALLY arrived when our second team can put in a shift like that, I can not think of one area where we did not have the better player, and to be fair, if it was not for Given we could have been 4-1 up come half time, but, like my name says, we only need one half, and we didn’t even need a plan B this time. Man City, £118 million summer spending, your having a laff!!!!
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Even our second string is Premier League class! Boing Boing!
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Well said Sloanranger!! Boing Boing!!!
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An excellent game, two well-matched teams giving it everything and we deservedly came out on top. Albion’s passing was of a level which augurs well for the future. I was delighted to see Cox score a good goal, plus a really excellent shot well saved. Our new left winger was a nightmare for City, getting some heavy ‘treatment’ at times. Barnes too played well. In fact, who didn’t play well?
Answer: No one.
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Excellent display from the boys.
Dorrans looked back to his best.
Somen has a bit of everything to his game. Power, Pace, Skill etc. Could be one of our best signings.
Reid did really well in the middle with Viera around (and still a threat).
Barnes seemed a bit more confident, maybe he knew he was going to play the full 90.
Pablo looked solid and will settle into the English game.
Everybody put a shift in so well done the Baggies.
Our ability to come from behind and get something could be the big difference this time around.
Now lets see what Aresnal have got!
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Albion reserves beat a Man City reserves team full of internationals (including over £30million of talent on the subs bench).
Who’d have thought it?
However, I’ll be more happy if this is the same result for the corresponding League fixture.
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BOING BOING!!!!!!!!!!
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Fortress hawthorns,great performance,great game,,bring on the dings or the vile,or anybody we dont care cuz we aint scared of anybody,aye boing boing
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WEMBERLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WEMBERLEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WEEM THE FAMOUS ALBION n we guin to wemberleyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Please God, don’t let the Albion draw The Wulfies in the next round, or if you must, let it be at The Hawthorns. Amen.
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Nice one baggies, it’s good to see our squad are able to compete with bigger teams. These are realistic targets for us to aim for glory.
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Cyril,
What you saying?. Go on the coach to the custard-bowl and you’ll have enough material
to build that ROCKERY you’ve always wanted.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Well played, but don’t get carried away, this was a reserve match after all. Liverpool and Chelsea also out, good chance this year if you avoid Arsenal. Will be cheering you on if you draw the scum. Best of luck!
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Missed the game but great to read the comments and reflect on another fantastic performance. Agree that RDM is shaping up to be a very good manager indeed. In previous years, going one down against Premier opposition was basically the end of the game; not any more. We can go to Arsenal with confidence and enjoy it, come what may.
BTW if you haven’t done so already, have a read of the posts about the Hughesie incident and trouble at Molineux on the W****s site. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry…
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what a time to be a albion fan proud as punch
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17 Cyril, dont worry mate when we go there theres usualy more than us than them anyway,they wont come if its even numbers,if we are drawed there i,l be fust in queue to get me ticket,aye boing boing
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while waiting for my daughter after the game,i watched all the city coaches making there way back home in saftey,no doubt looking forward to a return visit to the hawthorns for the league fixture, aye boing boing
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21, yes i did, and i laughed aye boing boing
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On another forum I have just been reading Man City fans posts about feilding a weakened team…….
Seems you can spend 250 million and STILL not have 25 decent players…
Then there is Mancini who says the carling Cup was NOT a priority for the club – despite not winning anything since 1977 and spending all that cash.
Thank heavens for JP and RDM – proper football people living in the real world.
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!!!!SILENCE OF THE DOGHEADS!!!!
Sweet let the results do the talking.
Think we could even get something from the Gooners this time.
BOING
BOING
Oh better not say that.
BAGGIESBAGGIESBAGGIES
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21 Paris.
Surely most of them are right on the mark. After all if that Franz Ferdinand hadn’t gone and got himself shot WWI wouldn’t have happened would it?
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28 Bully Hoo: dead right mate. And when a butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo, it rains in Handsworth, or something like that.
What I love on that thread are the posts from PetesNuts. When the dingles start using big words, you know something’s up.
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On a different note, did anyone watch……you`re on sky sports last night ?
It featured “expert” Graham Stuart, ex Charlton, Everton etc.
Talk was about Arsenal, and Stuart suggested that the West Brom`s and Wolves`s of this world game plan is to go to the Emirates and be physical and shut up shop.
Now i have a few problems with those comments.
A TV expert/pundit should have a modicum of knowlege of the teams of which he speaks.
Clearly Stuart has not the slightest comprehension of what the Albion are about, and to suggest that we are an attritioal team is both wrong and insulting.
And WHY OH WHY do these people pluralize teams, the West Brom`s of this world, the Chealsea`s of this world et-al. It`s ridiculous.
Stuart even managed to pluralize a pluralism when he called Wolves…..Wolves`s
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I couldn’t resist asking on their site,
“What would have happened if Wolves had LOST”?
I’m still longing to know if Liverpool has been dragged out to sea and sunk by irate fans.
The intellectual and adult behaviour of fans can be measured in their ability to absorb defeat. It hurts of course, but we swallow hard and live to play another day. That’s why I’m ALWAYS proud to be a Baggie. We grew up early last century and haven’t degenerated, even in our darkest 3rd Division days.
How about we make a new rservoir for the West Midlands? I know a good site about 8 miles West Of West bromwich.
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Can anyone else remember a thread on here that with 30 posts over 12 hours still has no wolves comment on it ?
Once again the dingles pre and early season boasts are starting to look stupid – and we aint even played them yet !!!
I’m sure no one on our side is getting too carried away – but results (and performances) speak for themselves – and we are speaking loud and clear…. “BRING IT ON ” !!!!!!
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wbaforever 30 – i didn’t see the programme you mention, but it comes as no suprise.
It was bad enough listening to those chumps on MOTD who were totally unable to offer any praise to the Albion but were gushing about the Blues who they now percieve as “established”… despite having just watched us out play them and spank them 3-1.
There is a definate “us and them” attitude amongst pundits – the “big 4″ should never be challenged, promoted teams should be grateful for the chance to play at big grounds and woe betide any upstarts who think they can actually win a few games.
It will make any success we have this year that much sweeter !!
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I’ll have a comment HB……for once, I actually agree with your comment at 26.
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Fantastic result!! We fear no-one
I missed the first half, put the radio on for the second half went to the bathroom came back and we were 2-1 up. Will have to start going to the bathroom more often
Boing Boing!!!
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Happy,
If Manchester City aren’t bothered about the
Carling cup why did Mancini bring on their big guns, then. His actions call him a liar.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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WARREN
Just looked at the dark side pages re Lee Hughes, if you post much more with Petenuts you will end up as daft as he is, wasting your time there i think.
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Calm down! calm down! take a look at the table for the last two seasons and you will see last years early leaders included Burnley, and the year before Hull were riding high.
They both thought they had arrived and look what happened to them.
it’s a long hard season and doesn’t really take shape until after January.
A couple of injuries or a couple of heavy defeats can soon change the picture.
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30 Forever.
Very true. This is lazy punditry. They seem to think that because someone has played football he must be an expert and we should all listen to them
On Talksport Stan Collymore(who often talks a load of ballcocks himself) has had a go at the MOTD ‘experts,’ over there lack of basic knowledege. The other night talking about Newcastle’s Ben Arfa one of them said ‘I don’t know much about him.’ He’s not some unknown from the French second division and even if he was it’s their job to know something about him, they are being paid to be experts and to inform us. Talksport often interviews ex players (mainly Liverpool or Arsenal) and they invariably come over as the badly informed bloke from the pub who has caught the end of MOTD and knows it all.
I agree about the ‘West Broms.’ You can add to that list the Blackpools, the Boltons and the Blackburns. The Fulhams and West Hams don’t come into it because they’re London clubs and therefore naturally superior. As Happy says the Villas and Evertons are established PL clubs and obviously wouldn’t dream of kicking Arsenal. While for some reason the Newcastles and Sunderlands always remain a part of the in crowd because with Smith, Nolan Cattermole and Barton they are comprised almost entirely of choirboys.
Sorry attempt at a sarcastic rant over.
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Fantastic result last night. But i think lets not get to carried away, there is a lot of work to do and we need to stay focused. RDM has a good headache no with fringe players knocking on the door e.g.Simon Cox a,d Somen Tchoy. He ran them ragged.
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Wall Heath
Tell me about it!! I gave up yesterday then naively got dragged back into it last night when he called the Notts County fan a cretin for no reason!!
Forever, TRBH
I think in some ways it’s symptomatic of the job they do in that they are asked to give an informed opinion on 20 teams, when it’s only possible for them to have seen 5 or 6 that day.
Steve Claridge makes me chuckle on the Football League Show trying to give an in-depth tactical analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of 72 clubs. The net result of this of course is these summaries are invariably inaccurate- Graham Dorrans being left out of his Championship team of the year!! I read somewhere that Claridge was spotted in the press box at the Hawthorns once last season, yet spent 6 months telling everybody on the show how weak we were defensively.
However in a way, the longer we remain ‘the West Brom’s’ of the world to Hansen and Lawro et al, it’s to our advantage. Birmingham are probably finding out now, that being ‘established’ has it’s pitfalls. Whilst it’s frustrating in some ways, if it means we keep our better players longer and surprise a few teams, long may it continue.
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Did any of you notice the roar of excitement EVERY time Somen Tchoi (is that the right spelling?) beat his man and left hin for dead?
I thought I had gone to heaven. Not seen that sort of skill since Cunningham and Johnson. Happy happy days
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An enjoyable evening’s entertainment in which we thoroughly deserved the victory.
Several good performances notably from Ibanez, Tchoyi and Dorrens. However I would like to reserve special praise for the on field captain, Stephen Reid, who I thought was excellent in the centre of midfield. I for one would prefer to see him in there rather than Scharner who is not as mobile as Reid.
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29) Paris. Wulfies using big words? Look one below you 29) wbaforever. ATTRITIOAL Hmmm ! overstretching ourselves are we ?
IF those yobs who have been branded Wolves supporters are caught, they should be rounded up with the idiot who got a flare into Molineux and locked up. There’s plenty of room inside whilst our judiciary allows characters like Hughes and King out on the street well before their time.
Don’t try and make gain out of this sad episode, these idiots are in every town and city throughout the UK including Sandwell.
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Good result for u lot last night, fair play. Obscene the ridiculous ammount of money city are allowed to spend in there quest for success. Its always good for football when one of the minnows beat one of the big boys.
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So now RDM has to make a pretty impossible decision. Tchoyi, Brunt or Thomas? Who gets dropped? To be honest I would like to see any combination of the three but I definately want Tchoyi to be given a run out against Arsenal. They are amazing footballers but would they be able to match him physically? Not to forget that Thomas would probably be quite keen to have a pop at his old club and Brunty is on fire at the moment. Like I said toughy.
The pundits aren’t giving the Baggies or lets not forget Blackpool thier dues because they don’t want to have to learn about the promoted teams because it’s more work. Thats why the puditry seems lazy, because it is. They saw Newcastle, Albion and Blackpool come up and decided the latter two would go down along with Wigan because Newcastle are too big to predict relegation, West Ham are a London side and so can’t possibly be relegated (even if they cheat) even though they were the worst side to survive last time, so Wigan are the obvious choice. Lazy. They hate it when promoted teams get in amongst the pack because they actually have to research them. Well hopefully the Baggies will have em cramming every Sunday. Once they know all the players names we can look forward to losing 3-1 to a promoted side and have Lawro explain in his annoying squeeky tone that we are an ‘established side’. I thought we were established in 1878 a good 20 years before his beloved Liverpool.
Boing Boing
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time bandits
Just a typo mate.
Attritional………is that better.
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44 TB.
I pointed out yesterday that just as not all football fans are hooligans then not all Wolves fans are thugs.
Having said that you are now in great danger of being seen throughout the country as just that. The list of Cardiff, Leeds, Burnley and Milwall will soon have your club added to it. A real shame for the genuine supporters.
Perhaps I shouldn’t say that because no doubt the swamp life in question will see it as something to be proud of.
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45 lone wolf- maybe it’s just the way you word your posts,but even when you praise Albion,you seem to always throw in a put-down of some kind.Man.City have spent a fortune,but haven’t actually won anything for many many years,The Baggies are a Premiership club,but you talk about ‘minnows’ beating the ‘big boys’? As Albion are above wolves in the league,does that make you sticklebacks?
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45 Lone Wolf. Which ‘City’ is that then? The one at Alverwumpton managed to beat Notts County after a fashion against ten men and then there was Northampton beat Liddypol City. Both have spent well beyond their means to play minnows without much success.
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Lonely wolf,
Scraped through by beating a division one side
with ten men in extra time having to bring on
£ 13,000 000 pounds worth of stikers to do it.
Big Brave Wanderers, ameobas of the Premiership.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Why do you guys take the bait from Lone Wolf?
As soon as you answer his silly put down, he has won.
Just ignore him.
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52 Jeff.
Yes Lone Wolf is a wind-up merchant but I think most of the time it’s of the good natured variety. He sometimes makes good and sensible points in his posts as well as taking the banter he gets in return in good part.
Give me Lone Wolf any day over the false name merchants or the brainless ‘You’re S**t’ type posts.
Keep putting yourself up there LW and we’ll keep slapping you down.
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Jeff,
Answering posts is part and parcel of coming on this site Buddy. Otherwise, it’s like buying me a pint and saying ” You can’t drink that”.
Nothing to do with bait taking, but having fun. Y’know, like watching ALBION.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
P.S.
I’m sure my spelling and grammar aren’t perfect, but I haven’t heard from my Headmaster. As anyone been found in the cut lately.
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52 Jeff, most of me posts are done with only fun intended. Some of you still dont get it do you. If i get on some of your nerves, tough. When i raise me head obove the parapet and put me two penneth in i regularly get a good kicking from TRBH, Cyril, Cantello and the rest of your big hitters. I can take it. you must learn to too. Or, as you suggest just ignore me.
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Lone wolf….. thats not a kicking mate – thats a peck on the cheek.
Post something under the name laughingwolf to see what a kicking is !!!!
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