Forest win but good day for Albion (From The Argus)
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Forest win but good day for Albion
7:25pm Saturday 16th March 2013 in Sport
Albion will not move back into the Championship play-off positions even if they beat arch rivals Crystal Palace at The Amex tomorrow.
Nottingham Forest, who began the day a point and a place above the Seagulls, continued their excellent run with a 2-1 victory away to second-placed Hull City.
However, other results were favourable for Gus Poyet’s side ahead of their Sunday showdown with fourth-placed Palace.
Leicester City remain only three points above them but with a significantly superior goal difference after losing 2-1 at Derby in the late kick-off.
There were also defeats for the three teams immediately behind Albion – Bolton, Middlesbrough and Leeds United.
Nottingham Forest made it six wins on the trot as they came from behind to beat Hull. The hosts led thanks to George Boyd’s strike just before half-time but former Albion loanee Darius Henderson levelled ten minutes into the second half and substitute Lewis McGugan fired an 84th minute winner.
Derby ground out a victory against Leicester who, trailing 2-0, reduced the deficit in the second half through substitute Jeffrey Schlupp but could not force an equaliser.
Bolton’s run of five successive wins came to an end as they went down to a late goal at Ipswich Town. Carlos Edwards grabbed the winner in the 88th minute.
There was also a late winner at Middlesbrough as Nikola Zigic struck nine minutes from time to hand Birmingham a 1-0 victory which moved them up to 11th. Boro have now won just two of their last 13 league games.
In an early kick-off, tenth-placed Leeds United failed to make up ground on Albion after losing 2-1 at home to Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield. James Vaughan grabbed an 86th-minute winner for the visitors.
Leaders Cardiff City triumphed 2-0 at Sheffield Wednesday with goals from Don Cowie and Matthew Connolly.
Third-placed Watford failed to take advantage of Hull’s slip-up as they lost 1-0 at Barnsley to a first-half Bobby Hassell header.
Elsewhere, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Kevin Doyle got the goals as Wolves came from behind to beat Bristol City 2-1 in the battle of the bottom two.
Crystal Palace loanee Jermaine Easter scored on his debut as Millwall won 2-0 at Charlton.
Peterborough remain in the bottom three despite a 1-0 win at Blackpool thanks to Kane Ferdinand’s 45th-minute strike.
Comments(15)
wiseman of hove
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7:44pm Sat 16 Mar 13
namgo49
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7:46pm Sat 16 Mar 13
sloughseagull wrote:We've left ourselves with too much to do and are not in the best of form following three disastrous away results.
2 massive matches now that will define our season. Need a result tomorrow and at least a point at Forest next Saturday. Personally if we lose tomorrow I think it will be Championship football next season with Reading, QPR and Wigan making it an even harder league to get out of next season.
Someone remind me when was the last time we beat Palace, home or away? I can't be bothered to Google it.
bruce beckett
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8:00pm Sat 16 Mar 13
1988 according to a poster on NSC. Too long. Let's hope tomorrow is the day!
seabass83
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8:03pm Sat 16 Mar 13
championshipgull
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8:05pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Draws 21
Brighton Wins 34
Source cpfc.co.uk
PressBoxTeaBoy
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8:14pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Come on Albion!
Dingbat99
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8:15pm Sat 16 Mar 13
SmileyD
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8:18pm Sat 16 Mar 13
PressBoxTeaBoy wrote:Could happen - just need to play Adam El Abd as an emergency make-shift centre-forward!
We can still go 6th tomorrow, we just need a 13-0 win.
Come on Albion!
Hovite
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8:20pm Sat 16 Mar 13
This is the best part of the season when every game from now on will be like a cup final.
I can see that this will go down to the wire with Wolves playing to save themselves from relegation and us having to win for the playoffs.
All we have to do is not get anyone sent off in the first ten mins and it should be a cracking game. UTA
Martha Gunn
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8:24pm Sat 16 Mar 13
They just need to win 13-0. Simple.
seabass83
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8:32pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Baldseagull
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8:58pm Sat 16 Mar 13
namgo49 wrote:Too early to quit, and the results away were less than we hoped for but no one is guaranteed a win against anyone in this division.
sloughseagull wrote:We've left ourselves with too much to do and are not in the best of form following three disastrous away results.
2 massive matches now that will define our season. Need a result tomorrow and at least a point at Forest next Saturday. Personally if we lose tomorrow I think it will be Championship football next season with Reading, QPR and Wigan making it an even harder league to get out of next season.
Someone remind me when was the last time we beat Palace, home or away? I can't be bothered to Google it.
How often is it the last team to squeak into the last play off place that ends up promoted?
pjwilk
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9:03pm Sat 16 Mar 13
SmileyD
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2:20pm Sun 17 Mar 13
sloughseagull says...
7:34pm Sat 16 Mar 13