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  • Date: 2005-04-23
  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Attendance: 7703
  • Referee: Taylor, P

Live Commentary

90mins

That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.

89mins

The referee has booked Isaiah Rankin.

87mins

The referee has booked Lee Fowler.

87mins

Huddersfield are replacing Danny Adams with Nat Brown.

86mins

Danny Adams goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

76mins

Andy Booth is booked for unsporting behaviour.

75mins

Brentford are replacing Jay Tabb with John Salako.

71mins

Adnan Ahmed is replaced by Danny Schofield.

66mins

Marcus Gayle is being taken off, Scott Fitzgerald has come on in his place.

55mins

The referee has booked Stewart Talbot.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 1.

45mins

Half time whistle is blown by P Taylor

34mins

Sam Sodje is booked for unsporting behaviour.

26mins

Goal!! Pawel Abbott scores for Huddersfield.

0mins

The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.

Match Report

Pawel Abbott scored the only goal of the game to damage Brentford's play-off ambitions.

The Huddersfield striker netted with a sublime chip midway through the first half as the Bees suffered their second successive defeat at a key stage of the season.

Brentford started the game in the top six but this defeat and results elsewhere mean that Sheffield Wednesday have replaced them in the play-off zone.

The home side threw everything into attack in the final stages of the match but they could not find a way though as Hudderfield held on to Abbott's first-half effort.

And what a goal it was as Brentford were made to pay for some sloppy play.

Abbott was given acres of space after a mix-up in the Brentford midfield and grabbed his opportunity to race unchallenged towards goal.

Goalkeeper Stuart Nelson raced off his line to narrow the gap, but the striker exquisitely chipped the ball over his head and into the net from 20 yards.

Up until that point Brentford had been poor, but the goal sparked them into life and they almost grabbed an equaliser before the break.

However, Paul Rachubka made a brilliant save to keep out Sam Sodje's flicked header from Kevin O'Conner's pin-point cross.

Brentford continued to dominate in the second half but former Manchester United keeper Rachubka was again equal to everything they produced.

He made a decent block with his legs from Jay Tabb's half-volley before reacting quickly to keep out Andy Frampton's 20-yard effort that took a wicked deflection off team-mate Darren Pratley.

Rachubka was also commanding his area well as he claimed cross after cross as Brentford increasingly resorted to high balls into the box.

Deon Burton fired into the side netting on more than one occasion from decent positions before Huddersfield wasted a glorious chance to ease their defensive nerves.

From a rare breakaway substitute Danny Schofield found space in the box, but he dragged his shot wide of the far post as Brentford survived.

Brentford

Huddersfield Town

Corners

72

Fouls

1219

Goal attempts

104

Shots off target

62

Offsides

31

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