Summary

  • West Brom undefeated in five games

  • Crystal Palace are in the relegation zone on goal difference

  1. FULL-TIMEpublished at 16:52 GMT 4 March 2017

    West Brom 0-2 Crystal Palace

    Palace are out of the bottom three.

    Two great goals.

    Is Allardyce about to lead 'the great escape' again?

  2. STOPPAGE TIMEpublished at 90+3

    West Brom 0-2 Crystal Palace

    We have about two minutes remaining.

  3. Amazing Andros!published at 86 mins

    West Brom 0-2 Crystal Palace

    What a goal Andros! What a goal!*

    Andros Townsend picks up the ball from the edge of his own area on the left and runs.

    He runs some more.

    And runs some more.

    He then produces a couple of lollipops to baffle Gareth McAuley inside the area, before firing low past Ben Foster.

    Brilliant.

    *The shot took a slight deflection off Jonny Evans.

  4. goal

    GOAL - West Brom 0-2 Crystal Palacepublished at 84 mins

    Andros Townsend

  5. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 81 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    Baggies midfielder Darren Fletcher is off and forward Jonathan Leko - aged 17 aka the second year of A Levels - comes on.

  6. Pit-stoppublished at 76 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    It's a good thing the Baggies medical staff aren't doing F1 tyre changes.

    Jonny Evans is leaking blood from his bandage and it appears to take a while for the home bench to realise. Eventually, the defender is seen too.

    Moments later, Jake Livermore accidentally pushes ref Mike Jones to the ground.

    The home crowd cheer. It was quite funny, I guess.

  7. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 74 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    Yohan Cabaye, who provided that great assist for Zaha's goal, is replaced by defender Scott Dann.

  8. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 71 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    Allan Nyom is replaced by Hal Robson-Kanu. 

    It's the 20th time the forward has come off the bench - the most used sub in the league this season.

    What an honour!

  9. Postpublished at 70 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    Hal Robson-Kanu is about to come on the Baggies. It needs some of his Euro 2016 magic to give the home side a boost.

    You can barely hear the West Brom fans.

  10. Zaha's goalpublished at 66 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    Read my goal description from earlier and imagine the photos below are moving.

    Works doesn't it?

    No?

    Fine, be like that.

    ZahaImage source, Reuters
    ZahaImage source, Reuters
    ZahaImage source, AFP
  11. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 63 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    James McClean is on for Nacer Chadli. 

    McClean has been on the bench for 16 matches and come on in 14 of them. He's covered a lot of bench.

  12. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 62 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    Palace defender Patrick van Aanholt is on the deck. Injured.

    He is consequently taken off on a stretcher. 

    Jeff Schlupp comes on.

  13. CLOSE AGAIN!published at 59 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    Wilfried Zaha nearly grabs his second. He's on fire - not literally.

    The Ivorian dances into the area - he only has Ben Foster to beat, but falls under pressure from the keeper and the tracking Gareth McAuley.

  14. A brilliant goalpublished at 57 mins

    West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palace

    That wasn't coming.

    Only the second effort on target in the entire match sees Wilfried Zaha score.

    The Ivorian controls a brilliant long diagonal from Yohan Cabaye. He chests down the ball on the left of the area and fires a low, angled shot past Ben Foster.

    An exceptional goal.

  15. goal

    GOAL - West Brom 0-1 Crystal Palacepublished at 55 mins

    Wilfried Zaha

  16. Postpublished at 52 mins

    West Brom 0-0 Crystal Palace

    ...Chadli is on the end of a corner from the left but fires his first-time shot over the bar from 14 yards.

    There was no unjust end for Palace to that passage of play.

  17. Postpublished at 51 mins

    West Brom 0-0 Crystal Palace

    The Baggies win a corner but the ball appears to come off Nacer Chadli.

    Hmmm...

  18. Postpublished at 46 mins

    West Brom 0-0 Crystal Palace

    Palace are out of the traps like Mick the Miller, but Andros Townsend's ball from the right is aimless.

  19. KICK-OFFpublished at 16:01 GMT 4 March 2017

    West Brom 0-0 Crystal Palace

    We are back under way.

  20. Players back outpublished at 16:01 GMT 4 March 2017

    West Brom 0-0 Crystal Palace

    This has got to get better as a spectacle.

    • Will Sakho produce more defensive heroics?
    • Will Evans and Benteke clash heads again?
    • Will Gareth McAuley score for the 20th game running or something?