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1¹ MURIEL made space on the right and knocked the ball to OSULA who touched the ball over. 5¹ OSULA dummied REILLY but slammed the ball into the arms of GAUCI. 5¹ GOAL!! A quick-witted OSULA pounced on a loose ball on the left and made no mistake. (1-0 WBA) 6¹ WITSEL cautioned for a clumsy challenge. 8¹ GOAL!! A one-handed save from the WBA 'keeper enabled RANKIN-COSTELLO to glance the ball into the empty net. (1-1) 10¹ OSULA headed just beyond the near post. 12¹ A corner bobbled toward MURIEL who fired the ball over the bar. 14¹ ACUÑA was put clear by GUERREIRO and he pulled away from GAUCI but thrust his shot over. 19¹ GOAL!! A poor clearance dropped to WITSEL who scuffed a shot goalward, luckily GUERREIRO was on hand to blast the ball into the net. (2-1 WBA) 22¹ A pin-point pass found JACKSON and his right foot effort floated narrowly over. 34¹ A free-kick from MURIEL flew wide. 36¹ A lovely effort from ACUÑA scraped the woodwork. 42¹ GOAL!! After a steady build-up MURIEL drove the ball past GAUCI. (3-1 WBA) 5² A cross from ACUÑA left MURIEL in plenty of space but he rushed his shot. 7² A header by ACUÑA at the near post was comfortably collected by the AFC Wimbledon 'keeper. 8² The motionless GAUCI was a mere bystander as a backpass from LUÍS SEMEDO fell just wide. 28² MURIEL waltzed round ALEXANDER and stabbed a weak shot past the post. 28² McATEER chipped the ball to VERTONGHEN who touched it wide. 30² GOAL!! An energetic VERTONGHEN ran down the left wing and touched the ball back for WITSEL to slip home. (4-1 WBA) 41² WITSEL ran onto a great ball from WASS but fumbled his shot wide of the goal. 42² CUADRADO kicked the ball wide from just inside the area. 44² A penalty box scramble resulted in ACUÑA tapping a low shot wide.

WBA   League position: 6 Home league form: XWWW Overall league form: XWWXWWWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Igor AKINFEEV 6½ 1 6½ Joe GAUCI Juan CUADRADO 7½ 2 5½ Cheye ALEXANDER Raphaël GUERREIRO 7½ 3 8  Joe RANKIN-COSTELLO Daniel WASS 8½ 4 6  Callum REILLY (c)Axel WITSEL 7½ 5 6½ Will NIGHTINGALE Jan VERTONGHEN 8  6 6  Terell THOMAS Filip KOSTIC 6  7 6  Shane McLOUGHLIN Marcos ACUÑA 8  8 7  Tatsuhiro SAKAMOTO(c) (p)William OSULA 6½ 9 7  Kayden JACKSON(p) (f)Kasey McATEER 5½ 10 5½ LUÍS Hemir SEMEDO(f) Luis MURIEL 6  11 5½ Jonson CLARKE-HARRIS Manager MARCOS ALONSO Mendoza    12    Alex WOODYARD Sam JOHNSTONE    13    Will NORRIS Craig DAWSON    14    Ian POVEDA Dara O'SHEA    15    Joe PRITCHARD OKAY Yokuslu    16    Daniel JEBBISON

AFC Wimbledon   League position: 6 Away league form: WLLW Overall league form: WXLWLWWW Formation: 4-3-3

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Statistics

WBA 4 AFC Wimbledon 1 (Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 26,751, Stadium: The Hawthorns, Referee: Darren Deadman 5½) Osula 5¹, Guerreiro 19¹, Muriel 42¹, Witsel 30² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Rankin-Costello 8¹         Witsel 6¹   2 4 12 15 2 5 6 1 16 3 22 4 1 0 56% 44% ¶ Man of the match: Daniel Wass ¶