{"id":562732,"date":"2026-04-03T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:51:08","slug":"west-brom-2-2-wrexham-apr-3-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562732\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom 2-2 Wrexham (Apr 3, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wrexham<\/a> staged a dramatic second-half recovery to draw 2-2 at West Brom<\/a> and move into the Championship<\/a> playoff places.<\/p>\n

Isaac Price’s free kick deflected off George Dobson to give the hosts a lead that was built on before half-time by Josh Maja’s penalty — Albion’s first of the season.<\/p>\n

Wrexham had not been at the races first half, but they levelled two minutes after the restart as Josh Windass curled home a beauty from 20 yards.<\/p>\n

Parity was restored after 62 minutes when Lewis O’Brien and Dobson were left to dispute who got the final touch on a Callum Doyle cross.<\/p>\n

Wrexham appeared the more likely team to win it at that stage, but they owed their point to Arthur Okonkwo’s incredible late save from Albion substitute Daryl Dike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"CallumCallum Doyle celebrates George Dobson’s equalising goal for Wrexham against West Brom.<\/p>\n

Nick Potts\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The draw takes Wrexham into sixth place, a point above Southampton who have a game in hand. The two sides meet in North Wales<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

West Brom remain four points above the relegation zone in 20th after extending their unbeaten run to five games under interim manager James Morrison.<\/p>\n

Albion had clearly been energised by back-to-back wins over Hull and Bristol City and began on the front foot.<\/p>\n

Aune Heggebo<\/a> shrugged off Dominic Hyam but his shot lacked power and Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba was off target from 18 yards.<\/p>\n

Albion took a deserved lead after 26 minutes when Issa Kabor\u00e9<\/a> brought down Callum Styles<\/a> just outside the box.<\/p>\n

Price fizzed in a ball from the angle and Dobson stuck out a foot to divert the ball past Okonkwo at his near post.<\/p>\n

Kabore suffered another difficult moment as he held Jayson Molumby<\/a> at a corner, and referee Bobby Madley was in no doubt he had wrestled the Albion midfielder to the ground.<\/p>\n

Maja dispatched the spot-kick with plenty of power into the corner as Okonkwo guessed correctly to his right.<\/p>\n

Wrexham had not managed a single attempt on target but were almost gifted a route back into the game in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n

\"JoshJosh Maja converted from the penalty spot to put West Brom two goals to the good.<\/p>\n

Adam Fradgley\/West Bromwich Albion FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ousmane Diakite’s header struck Nat Phillips and spun wide just wide of a post with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths beaten.<\/p>\n

There were probably some harsh words from Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson at the interval given his side’s lethargy and the momentum quickly swung.<\/p>\n

George Thomason and O’Brien combined and Windass claimed his 12th goal of the season in fine fashion.<\/p>\n

It was all Wrexham now as Hyam went close and Sam Smith sent a header on to the roof of the net after missing from a few yards out moments earlier.<\/p>\n

The equaliser came when O’Brien backheeled Doyle’s cross goalwards, with Dobson possibly helping it across the line with the faintest of touches.<\/p>\n

Both sides could have won it late on with Okonkwo’s legs denying Dike from point-blank range and Griffiths pushing aside an effort from the returning Kieffer Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham staged a dramatic second-half recovery to draw 2-2 at West Brom and move into the Championship playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-562732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}