Playoff Semi Final - First Leg

[VillaRosie]

Steer
ElMohamady
Tuanzebe
Mings
Taylor
McGinn
Jack
Whelan
Adomah
El Ghazi
Abraham

Subs

Kalinic
Hourihane
Hause
Jedinak
Green
Kodjia
Davis

[samhubball]

Well we need to play better than that. Jack is sitting too deep to get the ball. Hourihane needs to come on for Whelan who was responsible for the bogrolls goal and who's passing has been short or long all 1st half. They are more than capable of catching us on the break and again the holding midfielder is off the pace and not looking sharp. It would have been 2 down had it not been for a fantastic finger tip save from Steer.

[samhubball]

Well that worked

[MissWinnie]

Ha ha! We'll have to send you to the Hawthorns for another half time pep talk and tactical advice, Sam! Phew!

Hope you don't do as well rousing your FL troops tomorrow though!

[Palmeras]

Greasy jack is a cheat, how much did you pay that ref the foul on holgate was a blatant penalty and the Gayle sending off was laughable, still only half time

[birminghamborn]

Still winning

[bongosdad]

We started off nervous it seemed. Much better 2nd half though. I will be confident going into the next round. We were the better team.

[freer]

Greasy jack is a cheat, how much did you pay that ref the foul on holgate was a blatant penalty and the Gayle sending off was laughable, still only half time

All this bleating about Gayles sending off

* He received a richly deserved first yellow for persistent time wasting

* Gayle was subsequently dismissed for his the second yellow after a late/clumsy challenge on goalkeeper Jed Steer

Regarding “ Gayle sending off being laughable”



Grealish cheating ? Is the unsportsmanlike Rodriguez likely to punch the ball in undetected in the “second half” ?

[mondaze]

we had to give them a goal start just to make it interesting... come on baggies... you need to get a bigger bus on tuesday!

[stateside]

Laughing my ass off at the poor Tesco. You friggin’ cheated at home earlier this season. Took 2 points off us and added 1 to yourselves. No, Grealish didn’t dive. Holgate was lucky to still be on the pitch he was fouling throughout. One of your players went through Abraham from behind. Should have been a straight red. Gail time wasting four times before ref caught it. Then he fouled Grealish which would have been a yellow if ref hadn’t just booked him. Then he goes studs up on the keeper. Wonder if you would have been okay if Tammy had done that to Johnstone.

Yes, you should have had a penalty.