Substitute Adam Wealthy hit the equalizer in stoppage time to earn West Brom some extent within the Championship’s 2-2 draw at Bristol Metropolis.
The hosts took the lead within the twenty ninth minute when Andreas Weimann despatched a low cross to the far submit from the fitting and Nucky Wells led to an outstanding left-footed shot from eight yards away.
However Albion equalized within the 68th minute when Kyle Bartley went down when he challenged a header with defender Rob Atkinson and goalkeeper Dan Bentley, Karlan Grant scoring the ensuing penalty.
Wiemann hit an unstoppable shot within the eighty fifth minute into the roof of the web to attain his 18th objective of the season after Atkinson headed in a Robbie Conde free kick.
However Albion wasn’t carried out but and Wealthy, who had solely been on the sphere for 2 minutes, capped a neat passing transfer with an in depth left-footed shot.
Metropolis supervisor Nigel Pearson made one change from the 2-0 defeat at Barnsley Stadium, bringing in Cameron Pring rather than the injured Alex Scott, whereas Albion was unchanged from their win over Fulham.
Younger midfielder Josh Oyers, son of former Sunderland and Metropolis participant Gary Oyers, has been named to the bench for the primary time by Pearson.
The hosts suffered an early damage when striker Antoine Semeneu was compelled out and changed by Wales.
The excessive winds made life tough for each groups and the one look the prospect had earlier than substitute Wales’ opener was a 14th-minute header from Grant Albion that floated huge.
After his lead, Metropolis stepped out of the match and regarded the extra harmful aspect, though Simi Ajayi approached Albion with a shot from contained in the penalty space.
Atkinson’s header within the thirty seventh minute halted Albion goalkeeper Sam Johnston’s dive and a free kick for Matty James bounced off the close to submit as he threatened Pearson’s males.
From the ensuing nook, Chris Martin hit the far submit and Metropolis solely had one objective to indicate their superiority on the break.
By the hour mark, Albion had not but needed to save from Bentley, with Metropolis attacking properly with their three-man backline of Condé, Tim Klose and Atkinson.
Darnell Furlong headed in a proper nook kick and Conde made an awesome diving handout as stress from the guests mounted.
Then got here the penalty kick and Albion appeared the favourite to go forward and declare the three factors.
However Metropolis responded properly and refused a robust penalty for a handball earlier than Martin fired moments away.
Wiemann’s objective was properly deserved over the whole lot of play, however Pearson’s aspect had been susceptible to late targets all season and didn’t see the match once more as Wealthy scored.
What did the managers say…
Bristol Metropolis Nigel Pearson: “It was the identical previous story. The followers will need to have been as uninterested in listening to me discuss late targets as they had been uninterested in seeing them conceded. The ball was 10 yards from their nook flag on the final minute after which they made a throw-in chaos. Price us some poor once more. I’ve a good group of gamers however we will not maintain making the identical errors. We now have a consistency drawback. After so poor at Barnsley in the midst of the week we regarded robust on this sport and our goalkeeper did not have a lot to do.
“I haven’t got an issue with the penalty kick, having seen it once more, though I felt we should always have had a penalty within the second half. All credit score goes to Andi Weimann, who’s a pleasure for the coach. When we’ve a participant who has 18 targets and the place we’re within the league, it does not take a genius to unravel issues. At this time we had been good in protection, however we nonetheless conceded twice. There’s numerous work to be carried out in protection as we’ve a workforce.”
West Brom Steve Bruce: “We now have reached the stage the place we’ve to win matches to attain our objective, so I’m disillusioned. Our efficiency within the first half was not adequate. The second half was significantly better however one factor we’ve to outline is that we went up one minute and went down a day Subsequent.After my win towards Fulham I used to be anticipating higher.Situations had been robust, with swirling winds and a pitch like rugby the night time earlier than.It regarded like that.However we will not use these issues as excuses.We conceded two actually dangerous targets.
“I am glad Adam Wealthy scored as a result of he is an awesome professional however we will not rely on scoring in stoppage time to get some extent. I believe we deserved one thing within the second half and we thought-about the one workforce prone to win till they conceded the second objective. However that was dangerous. Actually from our viewpoint, though it was
Excellent ending. In fact there’s nonetheless hope of successful the promotion however the matches are working out and the attracts will not be adequate in our place.”
