Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox give their take as Albion grab a 96th minute equaliser to beat Sheffield Wednesday.
Adam Armstrong's debut goal look to be enough for Albion to beat the Owls.
But Callum Paterson looked to have rescued a point for Wednesday four minutes into added time.
Albion had other ideas though as Molumby popped up in the 96th minute to win it for his side.
Adam Armstrong's debut goal look to be enough for Albion to beat the Owls.
But Callum Paterson looked to have rescued a point for Wednesday four minutes into added time.
Albion had other ideas though as Molumby popped up in the 96th minute to win it for his side.
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00:00Baggies fans, welcome to ExpressingStyle.com, welcome to the Hawthorns, after a dramatic
00:14late late winner from Jason Molumby, we've had it all here today, we've had new signings
00:19impressing, we've had Albion taking the lead, a dead goal from a debutant, what looked like
00:25an absolute sickener in the 94th minute and a Jason Molumby 97th minute win, had to top
00:30it all off, he had a red card after the game as well, Coxy, over to you to sum it up, what's
00:34gone on today?
00:35You know, the bottom line is Albion have got three points, but it was sun after noon.
00:38Yeah, unfortunately there's a lot to talk about, which is a shame because it's freezing
00:41and I had to borrow your hat today.
00:43You did?
00:44Where's your hat?
00:45I am a Welsh boarder man and I am alright.
00:47You're too excited.
00:48That's the element.
00:49Wow, wow.
00:51Wow, I mean, rollercoaster of football really, the last five or ten minutes of normal time
00:58then stoppage time, oh my gosh, hard to pick through really, I mean, when that equaliser
01:05goes in, I mean talk about deflated, that was a real bad one to concede, real bad game
01:11management but you know what, forgive me for starting on that negative because that was
01:15absolutely carnage wasn't it, that was chaotic.
01:19That's the title of the video, that carnage.
01:21It was, what a moment really, I've said to a few people in my time doing this and probably
01:27going back a few years now, I would dare say probably pre-lockdown really because since
01:34then there haven't been many great times have there but I've said to a few people that single
01:38moment with a goal and the full-time was the loudest I've heard it in actually, it was
01:43absolutely booming wasn't it and you know, the celebrations of Molumbi and then like
01:48unfortunately, sorry, another dour one but it spilled over didn't it into full-time and
01:54led to a Kyle Bartley red card after the final whistle which I didn't see live, my head was
01:58in my laptop, you know, I looked up, I saw a bit of a melee in the middle, I saw Molumbi
02:04waving in front of the away end on the edge of the penalty area thinking, oh man, what's
02:09he doing, like, someone calm Molumbi now but it turns out he'd already been, I think, having
02:14a little wind-up of the Wednesday players which I think led to Bartley getting involved
02:18but what a moment, it was such a shame for a couple of reasons, I mean it was so close
02:25to being Adam Armstrong 1-0 wasn't it, the obvious story, the statement loan signing
02:31with an unbelievable finish on his first game for the club, 74, 75 minutes in, late in itself
02:38and that'll be more value for that, we spoke with Tony Moog, we just said, haven't we,
02:41he was measured as always, by the way, he wouldn't get, yeah, never get too high, never
02:45get too low, Tony wasn't hopping around was he, but why, he would have felt that at full-time
02:52wouldn't he, he would have felt that, I mean that's what, that winner there is what any
02:58footy fan's in the game for really isn't it. Well goals like that as well, you know, we'll
03:01come on to talking, we haven't really seen a lot of drama like that over probably the
03:07last two or three years, like you said Coxey, but let's take the rest of the game, I thought
03:11Albion were very good today in a lot of spells, obviously we had a bit of a shot with no wingers
03:17really starting in terms of Fellows and Johnston, but Albion were that first half they had three
03:22or four good chances, you could see immediately the impact that Adam Armstrong made, you know
03:26so sharp, picking up the ball, closing down players, not just that poacher in the box,
03:30you know made a real difference for Albion up there today, you know, and they've had
03:33like you said two or three good chances, probably the header with Higgum, you know up to the
03:36hour mark, it was all Albion really, you know Isaac Price another one, there's so
03:42much to talk about today, we've got so much to talk about on the podcast this week, so
03:45we'll save a lot of it for them, but I thought Isaac Price was phenomenal today for Albion,
03:49you know really good, and today was the first chance we really got a look at a kind of Mowbray
03:54Albion, they moved to a 4-3-3, you know three in the middle, you know you've talked about
03:58it, that is an option that Albion could do and they've moved away from that rigid kind
04:01of system that they played under Corberan and we've seen little bits of Mowbray sprinkling
04:07a little bit of dust on this team, but today it felt more like a Corberan team than an
04:10Albion team that we've seen for the rest of the season, one that closing players down
04:14as soon as they lose the ball, playing high up the pitch, you know not creating a bucket
04:18load of chances, but you're not going to because you're against a kind of playoff rival, you
04:22know up to that hour mark, up to the disallowed goal whenever it was for Sheffield Wednesday
04:26which was controversial in itself, Albion would have deserved to take the lead.
04:32On a long, long list of things, I tried to remember to ask Tony Mowbray, but I forgot
04:36to ask Tony Mowbray, that ruled out goal was one of them by the way, but I haven't seen
04:40a good replay of that yet.
04:41I think Wendass was offside for interfering with play, it was probably the process that
04:44it was given, the real alliancement should be controversial wasn't it, because Wednesday
04:48are celebrating and thinking it, so just the thing is, summary of what you said there,
04:53afternoon of change, six changes to the start, it's changed, yeah more than, well half, because
04:59there's a change in goal wasn't there, Joe Wildsmith, we mentioned him, then changed
05:03half, five of his outfield players from Plymouth, but Plymouth wasn't good so fair enough, but
05:10obviously we've since had the transfer deadline, so much business really, in and out, and players
05:16who are ready to come in, Alain Armstrong, and this was a first start for Isaac Price
05:20yesterday wasn't it, as you said, and right to pick him out really, I thought with the
05:25ball really good, legs without the ball, delivery from set pieces is going to be a massive weapon
05:32isn't it, massive lead to some big chances as you mentioned, a word as well, it was,
05:37as I say Armstrong scored in the 74th minute, Mowbray's triple change was around the 67th,
05:42so six, seven, eight minutes, those subs really worked.
05:46And two of them were involved, Will Lancashire, yeah Lancashire from the bench, Will Lancashire
05:50debut, it was a good cameo wasn't it, he looked strong, looked exactly like how you would expect
05:55a highly rated Spurs young striker who's playing for them in the Europa League to look, you know
05:59he's not, he's a kid, he's 19, but he's not, he doesn't look like a kid does he, he's six foot,
06:05big, no disrespect to Callum Marshall, but it doesn't look like a Callum Marshall in terms of
06:09someone who's maybe a bit more undeveloped, he looks ready, yeah yeah, and everything we've
06:12heard in training is how he can finish like Armstrong, ironically, and he played a role in
06:17the goal, Lancashire fed, great little touch, Tom Fellows, as you say, big story today in Fellows
06:21and Johnston not being in the 11, great cross Fellows, superb finish Armstrong, no one else,
06:29any other championship strikers scoring that, Maggia maybe, you know, playing the role across
06:34his body and just guiding it in, yeah well like we've been saying all week and Mowbray said it
06:39in there, he said in my mind Adam Armstrong guarantees goals and of course he does, yeah I
06:44think five, ten minutes before he'd won just on the edge of the box, arguably today, he hit the post
06:50with half chance, that was, that was a half chance really, for anyone else that's a half chance,
06:56and he puts it, he puts it in the net, we saw what happened at the end, didn't we, with the goal,
06:59you know Sheffield were just going to goal, you know question marked over the defender on the
07:02right side, I know they got in a few times down there with sort of Bartley and Furlong on that
07:07side, potentially some question mark, Hegham almost kept it out twice, you know, really good
07:12response to his display at Plymouth but for Albi to keep going today, you know, I spoke to a fan
07:17outside and he wasn't sure about the statistic but I think that's the first goal Albin have scored
07:21after the 86th minute this season, yeah I'm sure, I'm sure, and that's the first time Albin have
07:26scored a dramatic late winner, I'd have to go back through lists and have to look, yeah Mowbray said
07:31that there didn't he, and he said about not just settling for it, going for it, the last time I
07:36can remember Albin maybe going for it and it didn't come off was when they played Leicester here,
07:40yeah, yeah, last season, I just feel like when they went for it, that was a game that I think
07:46pre-Mowbray Albin would have probably drawn or potentially even lost, no disrespect to Carlos
07:49Corbijn and what happened before but today we saw a different side of Albin in terms of
07:54right it's 1-1, we've got what two, three minutes left on the clock, let's go for it, let's go for
07:58it, get four, you know, and if we can win it we can, and they did and it paid off, sometimes it
08:03doesn't pay off but it's just refreshing to see that kind of, let's have a bash even
08:07though we've had that such a late setback, I feel like there's a couple of ways of looking at it, I
08:11thought from minute 85-ish onwards until Paterson scored really, maybe earlier actually, I don't
08:19think it was good, yeah it wasn't good, I don't think the way Albin managed it out on the pitch
08:24there, the players that are out there handled that 1-0 lead very well, Wednesday were pushing,
08:29look Wednesday are no mugs, they're not in the bottom three, they're a handy side,
08:32tenth or whatever playoff rivals, without their best player today, yes Barry Bannon, but
08:37still got talent and you know Mowbray says they push big players on like Paterson and stuff and
08:43Joe Wildsmith, shout out for him, seconds before Paterson scores he makes an absolutely massive
08:48save from Wildsmith, oh what a day for him, a league debut for Albin, he's made two or three
08:57top saves, a little bit ropey at times in terms of distribution, he almost got caught early on,
09:02but he stepped up, yeah he delivered on Mowbray's faith, when most people didn't think he, yeah he
09:07delivered on Mowbray's faith, I think look their goal, he palmed out a low cross back into the
09:13danger zone, didn't he, Higgum almost cleared it twice, could any of that be levelled on
09:17Wildsmith, maybe, but he got Albin out of jail enough today, however I said there's a couple
09:22of ways of looking at it, that is a bit of a negative and you don't want to be chipping 93rd
09:27minute equalisers do you, you're going to drop points and you're too inviting then, too open
09:33maybe, I don't know, I'm not interested in calling Albin too open and too inviting because we saw
09:39far too many nils and nils and not enough kind of forward thinking did we, so won't really get that
09:45from me, but from 93rd to 96, 97 at least go again and you know, Mikey Johnson left out,
09:53comes on corner for the winner, the two wingers that made the two cross, inches from what led to
10:00the corner, it was a strike deflected which beat all the wins, Higgum makes a worldly save, then
10:05the corner comes in, so going for it, yeah I mean it was, I said at the top didn't I, carnage, chaos,
10:11even from there at 2-1 by the way, Wednesday, lobbing balls in the box and Waltz finished that
10:15to claim one, it was just joy, it was quality, it was a class one to witness at the end, you don't
10:22get many of them do you, and you know I mean, I feel in a way, but then maybe I don't, for
10:30supporters who left today you know, they've gone five minutes early to beat the traffic or whatever
10:34and excuse me me, well this could be a podcast topic, I've been speaking about it for someone
10:39there, you know they've left assuming it's 1-0 Armstrong, you know people have their own
10:45reasons to leave early don't they, and almost missed a bit of heartache really with Patterson's
10:50equaliser, but then gone and missed one of the best moments here in some time, but it's still,
10:56yeah that's a whole world of problems with roads and roundabouts and Sandwell council isn't it,
11:03and stuff like that, without getting too political, unbelievable finale, I'm so happy
11:09for Malumby, two goals in two games by the way, he's just, he's quite a character isn't he, and
11:15that bit of his character, it helps get the goal, you know because he's never say die, he's all in,
11:21you see his celebration with a shirt, but then he's in Wednesday's players faces at full time,
11:28he's in front of the away end, and Mowby's, yeah he's touched on it a bit there isn't he, about
11:32maybe, I don't think he said restraining, but look this is Jason Malumby, I'm learning about
11:36characters and that's Malumby, and I'll be on Miss Bartley sadly, because he'll have at least a
11:40three game ban, luckily as Mowbray said there are two more games this week, so that'll go quick,
11:46Holgate will come back from illness, but it's just a little bit of a sour footnote, let's be honest,
11:52it is, it is a sour footnote, but we'll take the win, it's been a good game, we certainly will
11:55take the win, as you can tell by how much Cox he's got through there, we've got a lot to talk about,
12:00he was against doing a podcast on Monday, because he said we wouldn't have enough to talk about,
12:03but I think we're going to have enough to talk about on Monday now, so there we go,
12:06a lot to decipher from a fantastic game at Hawthorne's, dramatic late goal from Jason
12:12Malumby, final score, West Brom 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1, for all the rest of the reaction
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