PREMIER LEAGUE: Brown Ideye Fires West Brom Out Of Relegation Zone

For a player West Bromwich Albion desperately tried to offload into the dying hours of transfer deadline day, Brown Ideye is proving himself rather useful. The Nigeria striker, derided for much of this campaign following a £10million club record move, struck his second goal in as many games to shift Tony Pulis’s team away from the relegation places.

Had Carlton Cole arrived from West Ham United as planned, chances are Ideye would be in Qatar, a deal worth £3.8m having been agreed with El-Gharafa.


Instead he stayed and looks a man reborn. His goal here came on the hour mark and gave the first real glimpse as to why West Brom paid all that money for him last summer.

Stephane Sessegnon slipped a pass down the line to Saido Berahino, who squared into the path of Ideye at the edge of the area. Ashley Williams flung his body to halt Ideye momentarily, but he managed to adjust his body and steer a finish into the far corner.

It was his third Premier League goal of the season. Carry on like this and he threatens to be a success.
With just one point separating West Brom from the relegation zone at kick-off, Tony Pulis’s claim on arrival at the Hawthorns that this would be his toughest management job has begun to ring true.