After the snoozefest between Norwich and Leeds, we got a more entertaining Championship play-off semi when West Brom met Southampton. It was still rubbish, mind.
After the snoozefest between Norwich City and Leeds United, we got a more entertaining Championship play-off semi-final when West Brom met Southampton . The bar was set very low, mind. We said it wasPlay-off football is supposed to be the best. Well, it was most certainly not on Sunday. At Carrow Road, Leeds and Norwich played out a dismal goalless draw in their semi-final first leg, a result Daniel Farke and his players will be pretty content with.
Carlos Corberan’s men could not transfer their effective game plan off the ball into clinical finishing – or even effective chance creation – off it. This meant the first decent chance fell to the visitors. Kyle Walker-Peters found himself in lots of space as his team grew into the match following a difficult opening 20 minutes, but dragged his shot wide of Alex Palmer’s post.
Although the Baggies started the match on the front foot and massively unsettled Martin’s players, it was Southampton who went into the break with the feeling they should be in front. Flynn Downes had a big chance one-on-one with Palmer and Adam Armstrong – who has scored 21 goals this season – spurning the rebound, striking the ball into the side-netting.
Excluding one minute of jam-packed action after 79 minutes, we were simply not entertained. At least it was better than the Carrow Road rubbish. And Yann M’Vila came off the bench. That’s a nice name for you Premier League folk reading about the second tier for a change.
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