Heggem header gives Albion lead but O'Hare levels for Blades
Campbell puts visitors 2-1 up before deflected Fellows equaliser for Baggies
Sheff Utd reclaim top spot from Leeds with point, Baggies stay eighth
Albion have now drawn 10 of past 11 Championship games
Blades stretch unbeaten run to eight matches
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Steve Hermon
West Brom commentator on BBC Radio WM
Image source, Rex FeaturesI'm going to throw it out there now.
I'd love to see Mikey Johnston grab a winner.
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Perhaps advisably as he is probably on his last warning, Jes Rak-Sakyi is withdrawn by Blades boss Chris Wilder, with fit-again Rhian Brewster coming on, still looking for his first goal of the season.
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Mikey Johnston showed a lovely touch in the area but just couldn't get his shot away, leading to an Albion corner, which they opt to take short, despite having scored from a direct one already this afternoon.
The Blades clear with ease.
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Alex Mowatt clips a Baggies free-kick towards the back post where Jayson Molumby nods back into the middle for the unmarked Karlan Grant to wrap his foot around it from 12 yards out - however his connection isn't pure and he drags his effort into the chest of team-mate Josh Maja at the near post.
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Rob Kozluk
Ex-Sheffield United defender on BBC Radio Sheffield
There are signs at both ends.
Either side can win this.
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Carlos Corberan adopts his lawn bowls stance, down on one knee in the technical area, but he bounces up as the Blades break as Gus Hamer sprays the ball to Jes Rak-Sakyi who bustles down the right of the box and fires in a low angled shot which Alex Palmer flops to his right to gather with relative ease, despite the conditions.
Last 20 minutes of this should be great fun!
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Mikey Johnston takes one for the team, and has his name taken by David Webb, after dragging back Callum O'Hare as he threatened to break away in the Blades half.
Will we finish with 22 on the pitch? Not so sure, personally...
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Steve Hermon
West Brom commentator on BBC Radio WM
The Albion fans are in fine voice.
David Webb has not sent anyone off yet this season but there was an argument that he could have sent off Rak-Sakyi for going down too easily again - but he kept his cards in his pocket.
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Jayson Molumby tugs Jes Rak Sakyi-s shirt as he tries to bustle towards the area, the Blades man hits the deck.
Referee David Webb thinks the Blades man was looking for it and already on the way down, he doesn't, however, produce a second booking for simulation.
Gus Hamer then commits another foul and also escapes a second booking.
This is bubbling up nicely...
West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd
Tony 'Bomber' Brown
West Brom's all-time leading goalscorer on BBC Radio WM
Image source, Rex FeaturesWe said Tom Fellows could be the dangerman in this game.
What a great break it is from one end to the other.
It's a deflection and it's looped behind the keeper.
This game could go any way.
Tom Fellows
GAME ON!
A lovely passage of play as the Baggies drive forward through Mikey Johnston and spread the play from left to right, Josh Maja finding Tom Fellows on the right corner of the area.
Fellows jinks inside and shapes to curl a cross to the far post but his effort clips the heel of the sliding Gus Hamer, hits the ground and loops agonisingly over the head of Michael Cooper and inside the far post.
Time stood still. They all count, and that's Fellows' first goal in 29 games, to he'll certainly be claiming it.
West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Sheffield United
Ged Scott
BBC Sport at The Hawthorns
If it's not much fun watching football on days like this, it's even harder work out on the park.
I might not have lowered myself to get a heated gilet yet, but I do at least have three pairs of gloves/mittens to choose from.
And the poor players are the ones facing all the hardship.
Aside from it being as cold as a rather cold thing, the rain, unrelenting in the first half, has got worse since the break.
Storm Darragh has cleatly not finished with us yet!
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Baggies keeper Alex Palmer claims a Harrison Burrows corner from the right and looks to spring Karlan Grant on a break to the other end... flat-kicking out of his hand and sending the ball 85 yards down field, eventually rolling into touch just before Grant can get to it.
The conditions, it's fair to say, are atrocious.
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Tyrese Campbell does indeed limp off, with 18-year-old Ryan One coming on in his stead for the visitors.
He's a prospect, One.
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Rob Kozluk
Ex-Sheffield United defender on BBC Radio Sheffield
It looks like a hamstring in the way he's pulled up. Not what we need.
Let's hope it's not too bad. The ice bag is on the hamstring area.
Sheffield United need to keep the pressure on because you don't want to let West Brom back into the game.
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Darnell Furlong spends a good while trying to dry the ball for a long throw, no towels allowed these days of course, but it's not the day for these and the Blades defence clear.
Tyrese Campbell is down on the deck holding his hamstring after his break down the right flank was cut short by the back-tracking Karlan Grant.
Stunned if he can continue...
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Adam Oxley
BBC Radio Sheffield
The conditions cannot be understated here. The wind and rain is really swirling around.
It seems to be dropping a degree every five minutes. It's horrible.
But the travelling Sheffield United fans are enjoying their day so far.
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Callum Styles concedes possession, Gus Hamer produces an outrageous turn to beat his man and thread in Tyrese Campbell on the left of the area.
He's angled in a strike looking for his second but Alex Palmer dives full stretch to his left to tip it round the post.
Football's the winner, there.
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Eight striped shirts in the wall, six of them red and white, and it's one of those which is hit by a rather tame curling effort from Alex Mowatt from 20 yards out, after all the big build-up and given his track record from that distance.
West Brom 1-2 Sheff Utd
Tony 'Bomber' Brown
West Brom's all-time leading goalscorer on BBC Radio WM
That is Tom Fellows at his best - when he's travelling with the ball.
Image source, Getty Images
Callum O'Hare (centre) scored his second Sheffield United goal in three games
Draw specialists West Bromwich Albion shared the spoils for an astonishing 10th time in 11 games as they held Sheffield United at The Hawthorns.
But the Blades' point was still enough to send them back above Leeds United to the top of the Championship table.
In pouring rain in the Black Country, the Baggies led through Torbjorn Heggem's early header, only to be pegged back by two goals in two minutes, scored by Callum O'Hare and Tyrese Campbell.
But, unlike so many of Albion's previous drawn home games this season - six in their first eight games - this was a comparative classic to gladden the heart in the almost brutally cold, wet conditions.
And they got a deserved but fortuitous point when Tom Fellows' 62nd-minute cross was deflected outrageously in to level.
Albion have now drawn with all the top four, having had goalless draws at home to Leeds United and Burnley and also at Sunderland.
But, having been top in mid-September, Carlos Corberan's team have now won just once in 13 games - and are 10 points behind Sheffield United.
Torbjorn Heggem got on the end of Alex Mowatt's cross to head his first goal for West Bromwich Albion
It looked comfortable for Albion for the first half-hour as they took a well warranted early lead.
Heggem's header from Alex Mowatt's left-foot inswinging right-wing corner was the summer signing's first goal for the club.
But Albion were pierced by the Blades twice in quick succession - and winger Harrison Burrows was the supply line each time.
First, his low cross cannoned on off two Albion defenders and into the path of O'Hare, who stabbed home as keeper Alex Palmer failed to react.
Then, when the Blades spread it wide again, Burrows was left with too much room and he was able to guide over an even more dangerous delivery, which Campbell coverted.
It was a sixth goal in eight games for the free-transfer August signing, who was allowed to leave Stoke City at the end of last season.
However, in the deteriorating, rain-lashed second-half conditions as Storm Darragh continued to blow fiercely, Albion enjoyed a huge stroke of luck just past the hour.
Fellows' attempted cross from the right corner of the area deflected wickedly into the ground off Gus Hamer and then looped almost comically over keeper Michael Cooper's reach into the top-left corner.
Albion are back in home action again on Wednesday night when they entertain Frank Lampard's Coventry City, before a Sunday lunchtime date at Watford.
The Blades have another tough road trip on Wednesday, at Millwall, followed by Saturday's home game with Wayne Rooney's Plymouth Argyle.
West Bromwich Albion head coach Carlos Corberan told BBC Sport:
"We lost concentration in the box to allow them to score their two goals. It is frustrating.
"In the second half we managed to get back to how we performed in the first 20 minutes."
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder told BBC Sport:
"We were up against a really good team. We knew this was a massive test for us. and we showed great character to overturn a lead the way we did.
"So I'm delighted with that. As far as I'm concerned, that's our best, hardest-earned point of the season. It was so important we got something.
"We could easily have decided it wasn't going to be our day, let's get back on the bus and get home and get in front of the fire. But they didn't.
"It was tough out there. But this side are learning on the job. We had six 22-year-olds on the park at one stage playing against men, in men's conditions. But they fought back and got a result."
| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 11 | 16 | 39 |
| |
| 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 33 | 13 | 20 | 38 |
| |
| 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 24 | 7 | 17 | 37 |
| |
| 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 36 |
| |
| 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 33 | 22 | 11 | 31 |
| |
| 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 5 | 31 |
| |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 24 | 2 | 30 |
| |
| 19 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 29 |
| |
| 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 28 | -5 | 26 |
| |
| 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 35 | 30 | 5 | 25 |
| |
| 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 25 |
| |
| 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 25 |
| |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 24 |
| |
| 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 25 | 27 | -2 | 21 |
| |
| 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 24 | -4 | 21 |
| |
| 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 26 | -4 | 20 |
| |
| 19 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 26 | -8 | 19 |
| |
| 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 34 | -13 | 19 |
| |
| 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 28 | -8 | 18 |
| |
| 19 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 26 | -8 | 18 |
| |
| 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 28 | -11 | 17 |
| |
| 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 38 | -20 | 17 |
| |
| 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 30 | -9 | 16 |
| |
| 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 27 | -10 | 15 |
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Manager: Carlos Corberán
Formation: 4 - 4 - 2
Manager: Chris Wilder
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Carlos Corberán
Formation: 4 - 4 - 2
Manager: Chris Wilder
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
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West Brom have lost each of their last three league games against Sheffield United, with each match ending exactly 2-0. The Baggies have never endured a longer losing streak against this opposition, with this fixture having been played 112 times previously across EFL history.
Sheffield United have lost three of their last five away league games against West Brom (W2), whilst only one of the last eight such fixtures played between these sides have seen both sides score.
West Brom have drawn nine of their last 10 league games (W1), while they could draw five league games in a row at home for the first time since December 2003.
Sheffield United have won six of their last seven league games (D1), keeping five clean sheets in that run. Indeed, no side has recorded more clean sheets in the Championship this term than the Blades (12 – level with Burnley).
After losing his first league meeting with West Brom (2-1 in December 2018), Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has only lost one of his five games against them in the EFL since then, winning three of them (D1).
