West Bromwich Albion 1 - Derby County 1

Derby win 3-2 on penalties

Date:	Tuesday 12th August 2025
Competition:	Carabao Cup (R1)
WBA: 6.3	(4-2-3-1) Wildsmith 3.5, Williams 6.8, Taylor 5.7, Campbell 7.0, Styles 6.5, Diakité 6.8, Mowatt 5.7, Fellows 6.2 (Wallace, 69 4.5), Price 7.6 (Molumby, 78 5.5), Johnston 6.5, Heggebø 6.9 (Maja, 79 5.5) Unused subs: Griffiths, Phillips, Grant, Deeming, Whitwell, Cole Manager: Ryan Mason 5.7
Derby: 4.1	(3-5-2) Vickers, Rooney, Sanderson (Batth, 63), Forsyth, Ward, Goudmijn, Clark (Osborn, 63), Ozoh (Adams, 63), Elder, Brown (Jackson, 79), Weimann (Wheeldon, 63) Unused subs: O'Donnell, Thompson, Eames, Gordon
Scorers:	Heggebø (67); Ward (96)
Referee:	Thomas Kirk 5.3
Attendance:	8,548   Home Fans 5.5   Away Fans 6.1

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Ratings submitted so far: 11

oshawabaggie:

We completely dominated them - and lost! Gave up a goal in the 96th minute to their only shot on target. Mason must be sick.

We played some lovely one touch football at times. I was particularly impressed with the young lad, Williams. Perhaps I'm being harsh on Wildsmith, but I thought he flapped at the one shot he had and he should have done better. I seem to recall a similar goal last season.

Lesson 1: when you dominate, you need to score more than one. Lesson 2: when you are only one goal up you can't keep dropping deeper and deeper. Lesson 3: you can't miss three penalties and hope to win a shoot-out.

A pretty good performance wasted.

Baggyjon:

As soon as I saw the draw i knew we would lose against our arch bogey side. When was the last time we beat them? Apart from 2021, probably 1921.

Eustace set his team to play negative football and first half we struggled to create good chances. Upped the pace second half and went in front but like Saturday dropped off in the last 10 minutes and paid the penalty.

However some good performances but I think Taylor's inexperience in the 6th minute of extra time going for a tackle against a veteran 36 year old with all his experience to give away a free kick instead of shielding the ball had its consequences.

I am afraid to say it but Wildsmith is just not good enough and unreliable. There is an ex-Albion goalkeeper at Wolves who is is very much on the sidelines these days.