Newcastle United zero West Brom 1: Phillips keeps Baggies hopes alive

West Brom kept their slim survival hopes alive as Matt Phillips scored only his 2nd Premier League aim of the season to stable a 1-zero victory at Newcastle United.

The Baggies knew only three aspects on Saturday would be ample to assign them from their Tenth relegation from the head-flight and caretaker boss Darren Moore got precisely what he wished, conserving his unbeaten dawdle guilty of the Baggies intact. 

Jake Livermore mixed superbly with Phillips for the game’s only aim, the old school floating a circulate across the defence that allowed the Scotland global to smash a pretty build previous on-loan dwelling goalkeeper Martin Dubravka.

Newcastle had chances to equalise, Kenedy hitting the submit and Ben Foster’s heroics preventing Dwight Gayle from heading dwelling within the death moments of the principle half of.

The rob leaves West Brom – who beat Manchester United and drew with Liverpool of their previous two video games – 5 aspects adrift of safety, with two fits composed to play towards Tottenham and Crystal Palace, and relegation to the 2nd tier composed appears to be most likely.

Swansea may seemingly well relegate the Baggies in Saturday’s late kick-off if they space as much as stable victory towards Chelsea, nonetheless West Brom’s valuable enchancment beneath Moore has nonetheless given them a sniff.

Ben Foster makes a exceptional assign to claw away @dwightgayle’s header in the end of the principle half of.

The Baggies composed lead 1-zero at St. James’ Park with magnificent over 25 minutes plus stoppages to play. #NUFC pic.twitter.com/xlsEBt65BU

— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) April 28, 2018

A slack launch up saw few opportunities created, even supposing James McClean flashed an effort across the face of aim for the site visitors and Gayle, who replaced Islam Slimani in assault for Newcastle, introduced a routine assign from Foster with a snap shot.

West Brom sparked the game into life by grabbing the opening aim after 28 minutes. Phillips latched onto a exceptional floated ball from Livermore to cost previous Paul Dummett and smash dwelling into the far nook of the accumulate, giving Dubravka no chance.

The hosts nearly pulled stage with a slick attacking switch six minutes later, as Chelsea loanee Kenedy mixed with Ayoze Perez to beat the offside entice earlier than poking towards the submit.

Rafael Benitez’s facet came shut again within the final minutes of the principle half of, nonetheless Gayle’s header was as soon as brilliantly kept out by Foster, who clawed the ball off the road to be distinct the site visitors maintained their advantage.

Emphatic!#NEWWBA pic.twitter.com/ls79UxdMBF

— West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) April 28, 2018

Jay Rodriguez was as soon as provided with a golden opportunity to extend West Brom’s advantage magnificent minutes after the restart, nonetheless mis-kicked his volley, and Salomon Rondon also wasted an even chance, smashing astray after finding space within the sphere.

Benitez threw on Slimani and Jacob Murphy in an strive to turn the game spherical nonetheless the Magpies struggled to search out the bear that had seen them rob four of their previous 5 league video games heading into the tie.

Slimani and Craig Dawson contain been each and every fortunate to flee red playing cards as tempers flared late on, with the West Brom man acting to intentionally stand on the foot of the Algeria global, who spoke back with an aggressive kick. Neither incident was as soon as noticed by referee David Coote.

West Brom held company to stable a precious victory, magnificent their 2nd far flung from dwelling towards the Magpies in Sixteen visits, and a uncommon trim sheet, their first in 24 journeys to St. James’ Park since September 1977.