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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 21 (setup 2, season 18)
WBA
v.
Rochdale
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Sam JOHNSTONE17Tomás VACLIK
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Tosin ADARABIOYO72Danny McNAMARA
EMERSON PALMIERI dos Santos73Aidan WHITE
Jake LIVERMORE47Manuel LOCATELLI
Jan BEDNAREK85Diego Javier LLORENTE Ríos
Kyle BARTLEY66Ben NELSON
Callum ROBINSON776Femi SERIKI
Kamil GROSICKI8Daniel Olmo Carvajal, DANI OLMO
Daryl DIKE9Dawid KOWNACKI
Hal ROBSON-KANU10Moses Daddy SIMON
Chuba AKPOM116Federico BONAZZOLI
Manager
Dwight GAYLE12Lucas BOYÉ
Fraser FORSTER13Sondre ROSSBACH
Andy CARROLL14Max TAYLOR
Kean BRYAN15Duncan WATMORE
Nathan FERGUSON16Liam KELLY

WBA 3 Rochdale 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 29,145, Stadium: The Hawthorns, Referee: Paul TAYLOR 5½)
9p Dike, 20 Grosicki, 84p DikeScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
1Corners1
6Fouls15
1Offsides2
7Shots on2
12Shots off7
19Total shots9
4Shots saved1
57%Possession43%
Man of the match: Jan BEDNAREK
3The Rochdale 'keeper managed to claw away an amazing shot.
6A penalty box meleé resulted in SIMON knocking a low shot over.
9GOAL!! A foul on ROBINSON inside the area gave WBA a penalty which DIKE tucked away.
11LIVERMORE made space on the right and knocked the ball to DIKE who fired the ball over.
20GOAL!! A great drive from AKPOM was punched clear by the Rochdale 'keeper only as far as GROSICKI who shot the ball past the stranded Rochdale 'keeper. (2-0 WBA)
27DIKE hoofed the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
30Uncertainty in the Rochdale defence enabled ROBINSON to hammer an effort just wide.
35AKPOM played the ball to BARTLEY who forced it over the bar.
38AKPOM rushed a simple chance.
 
46KOWNACKI ran onto a delightful ball from SIMON but hit his shot wide.
53A header by WHITE at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper.
58LIVERMORE was put clear by ROBSON-KANU and he dummied VACLIK but thrust his shot over the bar.
60AKPOM fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Rochdale 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
63A corner was collected by DIKE who forced the ball inches wide.
70MCNAMARA beat four WBA players and fired a shot just beyond the near post.
77DANI OLMO headed wide.
77A pin-point pass was collected by AKPOM and his deadly effort floated narrowly wide.
81A great effort from DANI OLMO scraped the outside of the righthand post.
82LIVERMORE shot wide.
84GOAL!! WBA were awarded a penalty after a foul on ROBSON-KANU, and DIKE put it past VACLIK who managed to get a hand to the ball.
87DANI OLMO brought the ball past LIVERMORE and poked a poor shot well wide.
89A free-kick from DANI OLMO went inches wide.