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Commentary
PAINTSIL booked for dangerous play.
A header from JOHN was kicked off the line by PAINTSIL.
23¹A thirty yard drive from CALDWELL caused the 'keeper little difficulty.
26¹HUGHES's shot was well held by AL-HABSI.
27¹A corner bobbled toward JOHNSON who turned the ball inches wide.
30¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Crewe Alexandra 'keeper.
32¹A penalty box meleé resulted in STEFANOVIC cracking the ball over.
34¹ALLBÄCK ran onto a great ball from HUGHES but fumbled his shot wide of the goal.
34¹A header by VINE at the near post was easily collected by the WBA 'keeper.
39¹EDWARDS chipped the ball to RAKOVIC who touched it just beyond the near post.
41¹GOAL!! JOHN tried to play the ball out of the WBA penalty area but was tackled by RAKOVIC who turned the ball to HOWARD for a simple tap in. (1-0 Crewe Alexandra)
Uncertainty in the Crewe Alexandra defence enabled CLEMENT to hit the ball wide.
A good ball from CLEMENT on the left bobbled toward McCANN who mishit his shot inches wide.
GOAL!! A sliced CRANIE shot bobbled toward HUGHES who made no mistake from just outside the area. (1-1)
RAKOVIC shot over.
14²GOAL!! A WBA counter-attack allowed ALLBÄCK to setup CLEMENT with an easy goal. (2-1 WBA)
17²GOAL!! A delightful run from BRUCE gave EDWARDS space on the right and RAKOVIC stabbed in his accurate pass. (2-2)
22²McCANN flicked an easy chance past the righthand post.
33²A tame shot from RAKOVIC bounced agonisingly wide.
35²JOHNSON whacked a looping shot wide from twenty yards out.
39²HUGHES was put clear by McCANN and he beat AL-HABSI but thrust his shot over.
42²A free-kick from ALLBÄCK floated wide.
42²A pin-point pass was collected by McCANN and his looping shot floated narrowly over.
44²ALLBÄCK worked the ball to MILLER, JOHNSON controlled his pass and kicked the ball within easy reach of AL-HABSI.

 
WBA
 
League position: 13
Home league form: WLWW
Overall league form: XWWWLWWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Joe MURPHY1Ali AL-HABSI
Dejan STEFANOVIC2John PAINTSIL(c)
Neil CLEMENT3Alex BRUCE
Andy HUGHES4Kenny LUNT
Steve CALDWELL5Leon CORT
Martin CRANIE6Steve FOSTER
Gavin McCANN7Carlos EDWARDS
Seth JOHNSON8Brian HOWARD
(c,p)Marcus ALLBÄCK9Ermin RAKOVIC(p)
(f)Collins JOHN10Rowan VINE(f)
Kenny MILLER11Fabrice PANCRATE
Manager
Emanuel VILLA  12  Dave BRAMMER
Jake COLE  13  Ian BENNETT
Joshua GOWLING  14Fergus TIERNAN
Sean GREGAN  15  Dénes RÓSA
Jesper CHRISTIANSEN  16  Joe HAMILL
 
Crewe Alexandra
 
League position: 16
Away league form: WLWL
Overall league form: WLWWLXLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
WBA 2 Crewe Alexandra 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 27,877, Stadium: The Hawthorns, Referee: Mark Clattenburg 6)

Hughes 7², Clement 14²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Howard 41¹, Rakovic 17²
 VineóTiernan 7²
  
 Paintsil 1¹
31
55
23
73
103
176
51
62%38%
Man of the match: Gavin McCann