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  • Bean (88), Elder (90)
  • Boulding (89)
  • Date:2008-12-13
  • Kick-off:15:00
  • Venue:Griffin Park
  • Attendance:4339
  • Referee:Ward, G

Live Commentary

90mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

90mins

Goal!! Brentford have scored with Nathan Elder putting it in the back of the net.

89mins

Goal!! Michael Boulding scores for Bradford.

88mins

Goal!! Brentford have scored with Marcus Bean putting it in the back of the net.

76mins

Charlie MacDonald is replaced by Dean Bowditch.

76mins

Brett Johnson is being taken off, Glenn Poole has come on in his place.

72mins

Damian Scannell is being taken off, Marvin Williams has come on in his place.

69mins

Peter Thorne is replaced by Barry Conlon.

69mins

Sam Wood goes into the referee's book for unsporting behaviour.

58mins

Kevin O'Connor is booked for unsporting behaviour.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 0.

45mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

0mins

It's 3pm on Saturday, December 13th, the match has kicked off.


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Match Report

Nathan Elder scored a dramatic late winner as Brentford beat Bradford City 2-1 at Griffin Park.

The game was goalless going into the 89th-minute before Marcus Bean gave the hosts the lead, only for Michael Boulding to level the scores in injury-time to seemingly earn Bradford a deserved point.

But Elder climbed highest to head home Ryan Dickinson's free-kick to send the Bees fans wild and lift Andy Scott's side above the visitors and into fourth place in League Two.

It was tough on Bradford, who had dominated for long periods and were only denied by Brentford's on-loan goalkeeper Mikkel Andersen.

Andersen had joined on an emergency short-term deal from Reading and made four top-class saves.

But his heroics were forgotten after the crazy end to a game that had been forgettable until its final stages.

Firstly Bean picked up a loose ball on the edge of the box and guided a precise effort past Rhys Evans and into the bottom corner.

But Bradford came storming back and finally found a way past Andersen when Boulding - who has now scored in each of his last four games - hammered home from just two yards out.

The drama wasn't over, though and Dickson launched one last attack with a free-kick deep into the Bradford box and Elder headed home his sixth of the season.

Stuart McCall's visitors have only won once in their last four games and are now seven points behind leaders Wycombe.

But Brentford are up to fourth and are only out of the automatic promotion spots on goal difference, as Scott's team continue their impressive season to date.

Brentford

Bradford City

Corners

46

Fouls

1014

Goal attempts

816

Shots off target

56

Offsides

25

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