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  • Kick-off: 16:45
  • Venue: The Valley
  • Attendance: 23412
  • Referee: Friend, K

Live Commentary

90 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

84 mins

The referee has booked Kevin Phillips.

79 mins

Charlton are replacing Darren Ambrose with Lee Cook.

76 mins

Ishmael Miller is being taken off, AS Roman Bednar has come on in his place.

71 mins

Leroy Lita is replaced by Chris Iwelumo.

63 mins

Charlton are replacing Jose Vitor Moreira Semedo with Zhi Zheng.

46 mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 1.

45 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

45 mins

The referee has booked Jose Vitor Moreira Semedo.

45 mins

The referee has booked Jonathan Greening.

44 mins

The referee has booked Zoltan Gera.

42 mins

Goal!! Kevin Phillips scores for West Brom.

30 mins

Goal!! Charlton have scored with Greg Halford putting it in the back of the net.

0 mins

It's 4:45pm on Friday, March 21st, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

Two out of form sides, Charlton Athletic and West Bromwich Albion, produced a 1-1 draw at The Valley, a result which does nothing for Albion's hopes of automatic promotion or Charlton's of getting into the play-offs.

Since they lost to Albion at the Hawthorns in the middle of December, Charlton have won only four of 19 Championship matches while the Midlanders have also been stuttering with four wins in their last 13 matches.

But Tony Mowbray's side are better placed than Charlton in fourth position while the Londoners, after being in a play-off position all season, have dropped down to tenth and desperately needed all three points from this match to resurrect their fading play-off hopes.

They got off to a good start by taking the lead on the half-hour when Darren Ambrose's long free-kick found Greg Halford at the far post and his looping header evaded two defenders and goalkeeper Dean Kiely to creep into the net and give the on-loan defender his first Charlton goal.

Before his strike Albion had had two goal-bound efforts from Kevin Phillips and Jonathan Greening well blocked by the home defence.

Albion equalised from an almost identical free-kick to Charlton's, Greening's cross was headed back by Zoltan Gera for Phillips to blast the ball home off the under side of the crossbar for his 21st goal of the season.

Although both sides went for the winner in the second half there weren't too many clear-cut chances.

Charlton's best effort was a curler from Jerome Thomas which looked to be beating Kiely but swerved just wide of the post while Albion finished stronger and substitute AS Roman Bednar twice went close to getting a winner first with a header and then with a shot.

Charlton Athletic Team

West Bromwich Albion Team

Charlton Athletic

West Bromwich Albion

Corners

6 6

Fouls

18 15

Goal attempts

14 15

Shots off target

10 7

Offsides

3 7

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