I wonder who was the man of the match.....???😎😎😎 Seriously that was AGAIN very, VERY important win. However se have get ourselves on that kind of trouble again??? Thank god we have our own saviour in Charlie! Didnt saw the last seven minutes how close WBA was the equliaser????
A superb result in a tight game where Austin made the difference. The club should try to get rid off Hoilet who almost cost us the 3 points. Barton did improve a lot 2nd half and even though he showed some bad performances recently I do consider him vital for this team this season. The atmosphere at LR is just amazing an I am really looking forward to the Southampton game in February. So good to see the Hoops at home...
Of course you are correct BUT Rob Green is saving more goals than Charlie is scoring and he must get credit.
Absolutely buzzing! Great great atmosphere. Good to see the players celebrate with Charlie at the final whistle.
Green is certainly not a great goalie and to me not worth mentioning. Austin`s performances have been so much different to the latter.
Perhaps you're listening to the same post match analysis as myself here in Canada? Bradley Allen in 1993
"It's a long way to tip a Baggie It's a long way to go. It's a long way to tip a Baggie To the sweetest win I know. You were two nil Up ahead us and we stuffed you up The Rss! It's a long, lomg way to tip a Baggie To the sweetest win I know" I think you all know the tune!! Thanks Charlie and the lads. Out of the drop zone for Christmas. Fantastic!!
View from the other side:- QPR 3 Albion 2 Charlie Austin treble sees R's hit back ALBION slipped a sickening 3-2 defeat at Loftus Road as they let a two-goal lead slip against QPR. It was a hugely frustrating outcome for Albion who could claim to have been the better team for so much of the contest but were undone by twin forces of Charlie Austin and their own fallibility at corners. All three of Austinâs goals sprang directly or indirectly from the source laying to ruin so much promising football from Alan Irvineâs team which had seen them open a two-goal lead inside 20 minutes as Joleon Lescott and Silvestre Varela scored their first for the club. But a hotly-disputed penalty, converted by Austin, from QPRâs first corner brought Rangers back into the game before the in-form striker pulled them level in the 48th minute and then grabbed the winner three minutes from normal time. A same-again Albion line-up were facing a Rangers outfit buoyed by the return from suspension of top scorer Austin but the opening was dominated by the Baggies. They might easily have been two goals to the good before eventually striking, with Craig Gardner forcing Robert Green into a diving save inside two minutes after Stephane Sessegnon had provided the set-up. Then Brown Ideye snatched at a real opening â Sessegnon once more the provider â in the seventh minute and sent his right-footed shot-on-the-turn high over from a good position. The Baggies' record signing was nevertheless playing a full and energetic role in this impressive opening spell and it yielded the breakthrough three minutes later after Gardner had forced a corner. Sebastien Pocognoliâs service was touched on by Sessegnon at the near-post enabling Lescott to score with a second header Green could only palm into his net. It was the defenderâs first goal for more than two years. It was no great surprise when Albion doubled their lead in the 20th minute â and a memorable moment it was for Varela. As Gardner broke down play, he set off towards a stretched Rangers defence and played a perfect one-two with Sessegnon. That played Varela clear and he casually slipped his finish under Green as he advanced. Amid this impressive Albion dominance, it was frustrating for the visitors to hand QPR a cheap route back into the match. But from the home sideâs first corner in the 24th minute, referee Craig Pawson spotted James Morrison getting enough of a hold on Leroy Fer to award a penalty. Albionâs protests came to nothing and Austin slammed home the penalty with meaning. But the Baggies quietened Rangersâ revival and created the best openings before the break. Green produced an outstanding save from Sessegnon â playing his game of the season so far - in the 40th minute from the best of them. Instead it was Rangers who were level three minutes after the restart when a Joey Barton corner proved their undoing. Richard Dunne won the first header which eluded a full-stretch Ben Foster put cannoned off the bar. Bobby Zamora turned it back into the centre of the penalty area for Austin to nab a point-blank second. A richly-entertaining second-half then had the minutes racing away as the two teams went at each other with gusto. Albion always produced the more measured football while Rangers were restricted to the counter-attack but dangerous nonetheless. It was difficult to believe neither team could add to their total but it was a terrific Foster save in the 79th minute as he defied Austin which was the next most difficult action for either 'keeper. Albion threw on Saido Berahino for Ideye with 20 minutes remaining and he nearly sneaked a third at the near post at the end of a Gardner cross. But then came the sting in the tail for Albion. Maddeningly, Barton produced a poor 86th-minute corner which flew straight to Sessegnon only for Albionâs man of the match to miscue his clearance for another corner. And this one was the killer as Austin eluded Albionâs marking and met Bartonâs corner with a powerful header. There was time for one final moment of frustration for the visitors as Berahino broke away and found space to fire a left-footer which cannoned away off a post. Albion: Foster, Wisdom, Lescott, McAuley, Pocognoli (Gamboa 90), Gardner, Dorrans, Morrison, Varela, Sessegnon, Ideye (Berahino 69). Subs: Myhill, Baird, Dawson, Yacob, Mulumbu. Goals: Lescott (10); Varela (20) QPR: Green, Onuoha, Caulker, Dunne, Suk-Young (Hill 29), Vargas (Hoilett 67), Barton, Henry, Fer, Austin, Zamora (Krancar). Subs: McCarthy, Ferdinand, Phillips, Mutch. Goals: Austin (24, 48, 87) Bookings: Dunne (foul, 39) Referee: Craig Pawson (Yorkshire) Attendance: 17,560 (1,475 Albion fans) Albion star man: Stephane Sessegnon http://www.wba.co.uk/news/article/qpr-albion-2155629.aspx
I'll hold my hands up and say I was one of them. Never detrimental, but had big doubts. Now I could let him shag me!
I recall their foul on Green Boxing Day two years ago, which led to them scoring. Clarke said it was debatable but they even themselves up.
