Scott Twine scored a winner to help Burnley produce one of the narrow football scores of the weekend in the Championship. Darnell Furlong scored the resurgent Baggies an early lead, putting Vincent Kompany’s team, who has only lost twice this Championship season, behind at the break (7). The West Brom manager Carlos Corberan appeared to be on his way to recording his 10th victory in his first 12 Championship games in charge, with the visitors prepared to move up to third, but Nathan Tella equalised the score with a strong finish (75). Scott Twine scored his first goal for the team in the 88th minute to ignite raucous celebrations under the Turf Moor lights as Burnley continued to press for a victory that would put them 19 points ahead of third-place Watford.
When an unmarked Furlong headed in a corner from close range, it appeared as though Kompany’s pregame prediction that West Brom would give his Burnley team their toughest game of the season would come true. West Brom kept their lethargic hosts at arm’s length while consistently posing a danger on the counter-attack. The defense was unusually lax for a team that had allowed the second-fewest goals in the Championship this season, but it was emblematic of Burnley’s first-half performance.
Erik Pieters, a former Clarets defender, came dangerously close to putting Barnes’ cross into his own goal before Barnes struck the crossbar just before halftime. West Brom finally gave up as Tella sprinted onto Anass Zaroury’s deft pass behind their defence and sent a shot past Alex Palmer as Burnley played with more intent, focus, and intensity in the second half. West Brom’s desperation defending made Burnley’s winner seem inevitable, but Twine, who had been taken off the bench for just his sixth game since joining from MK Dons in the summer, curled in from the edge of the box to rescue another three points for Kompany’s team.
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