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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 15:11:18 GMT
Two sides threatened with league relegation. Jonny Evans stripped of his Albion captaincy. Pardew phoneless and walletless after being robbed in Barcelona. Happy days.
West Brom: Foster, Dawson, McAuley, Hegazi, Evans, Phillips, Krychowiak, Barry, McClean, Rondon, Rodriguez.
Subs: Myhill, Nyom, Yacob, Brunt, Gabr, Burke, Field.
Southampton: McCarthy, Cédric, Stephens, Hoedt, Bertrand, Lemina, Højbjerg, Ward-Prowse, Tadić, Redmond, Carrillo.
Subs: Forster, Bednarek, Pied, McQueen, Sims, Romeu, Gabbiadini.
WBA 7/4
Southampton 13/8
Draw 2/1
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Post by MrFurious on Feb 17, 2018 15:13:11 GMT
Couple of taxi guys playing for their sins
0-1 already
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 15:14:17 GMT
Ward-Prowse delivers an outswinger on '10 and it lands uncontested by Albion at Hoedt's feet and he drills it home first time from 8 yards out. The Albion defence non-existent for that one.
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 15:18:41 GMT
And the Quarter Final draw will be made later today, not, as previously feared, on the BBC One Show. We could be looking at one or two tasty encounters, I feel.
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 15:37:57 GMT
The home crowd, striving to drive their team on, has kept up a repetitive chant, or mantra really, for the last ten minutes. What a smack in the teeth should Saints go and pot now.
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 15:53:47 GMT
The ref blows up for the interval just as Saints' Carrillo goes in a bit too hard on Krychowiak and this results in a spot of bother in the middle of the park with most of the players having a say. It's something of nothing and Carrillo is booked. Brom's fiery Irish international James McClean needs to watch out after having been booked for an earlier challenge. If Pardew doesn't replace him for that reason then it should be for McClean's greedy woeful attempt on goal on '40. From 35 yards. At an angle. On his weaker foot. With team-mates waiting in the box. Dealt with easily by Foster.
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 16:18:45 GMT
After a better re-start from Albion, McClean's ball in is intercepted and works its way nicely upfield to where Tadic collects the ball in and chips it in for 0-2,with not a single touch for any Albion player. But wait, Albion's Rondom has seen a long ball floating towards him. He runs into the Saints' area to connect with it. He volleys a left-footer past McCarthy and it's 1-2 with half an hour left.
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 16:41:33 GMT
Evans' corner picks out Hegazi (was it?) whose looping floater from ten yards bounces off the bar where it is met by Rondom who fires at the Saints' goal, but it's cleared off the line by Bertrand with ten minutes to go. Better from Albion this half but the visitors holding out.
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 16:53:16 GMT
Very late constant Albion pressure comes to nothing as the ref blows up and sends Saints into the quarter Finals. A stony faced Pardew shook hands with Pelligrini and walked quickly into the tunnel to a general chorus of booing.
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Post by staggerstag on Feb 17, 2018 20:06:16 GMT
Sheffield Wednesday or Swansea City v Rochdale or Spurs
Manchester United v Brighton
Leicester v Chelsea
Wigan or Manchester City v Southampton
LOL big boys kept apart for the semis.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 15:22:46 GMT
Sheffield Wednesday or Swansea City v Rochdale or Spurs
Manchester United v Brighton
Leicester v Chelsea
Wigan or Manchester City v Southampton
LOL big boys kept apart for the semis.
I think Rochdale might get something today. That pitch is anachronistically dire and I can't help but think it will consume Spurs' energies all by itself, leaving Rochdale to tootle on and play football. Leicester-Chelsea's no 'gimme' neither. I say Rochdale, Man U, Leicester and Man City semis. What's the odds on that?!? EDIT: Oh, I see the Spotland pitch has been relaid at some expense. Perhaps Spurs will go through after all. |
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