Pre-season friendly - Tuesday 27th July 1999, from The Hawthorns

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Result
West Bromwich Albion	1	2	Sheffield Wednesday
Hughes 65		de Bilde 8 Alexanderson 48
Att: ???

Teams
Miller	Srnicek
van Blerk	Newsome
Kilban	Hincliffe
Carbon	Walker
Evans	Thome
Chamber	Alexandersson
Raven	(c) Jonk
Flynn	Sonner
Sneakers	Scott
Hughes	de Bilde
Quinn	Sibon

Subs

Subs

de Fratos - Miller (45 mins)	Briscoe - Scott (45 mins)
Gabidon - Carbon (45 mins)	Booth - Sibon (50 mins)
Potter - Sneakers (58 mins)	Cresswell - Alexandersson (53 mins)
Oliver - Chambers (74 mins)	Pressman - Srnicek (58 mins)
Angel - Quinn (80 mins)	Atherton - Sonner (58 mins)
	Donelly
	Petta

Match Report

Wednesday edge win over West Brom West Brom 1-2 Wednesday - by Al Frith West Brom 1-2 Wednesday - by Peter Middleton West Brom 1-2 Wednesday - by Mike Atkinson The Owls kept up their 100% win rate during their pre-season programme with a 2-1 win over West Brom, who had sacked their manager Denis Smith earlier in the day. The game was a testimonial for West Brom's Paul Raven. Belgian striker Gilles de Bilde was on target for the second successive game, when his shot flew in via a deflection in the 8th minute. His impressive displays during the past week will surely earn him a place in the starting line-up to play Liverpool in a little over a week from now. He also went close to scoring again, as did Swedish midfielder Niclas Alexandersson - as Wednesday looked likely to double their lead, but at the end of the first half had to settle for just one. Half-time: West Brom 0-1 Owls The Owls only had to wait three minutes into the second half before they were 2-0 up, when Alexandersson put away a simple chance. West Brom plugged back and got one in the 65th minute, when Baggie's star Lee Hughes made it narrowed the margin to 2-1. Infact, Wednesday have substitute keeper Kevin Pressman to thank for - when he dived the right way to deny Paul Raven a 77th minute equaliser.