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West Brom concedes last-minute Wood hat trick as Burnley routs

equalizer against Aston Villa Wolves 4-0 in Premier League

(AP) — Keinan Davis pushed
West Bromwich Albion closer Tyrone Mings’ own goal in the 47th
to the drop from the Premier minute looked like earning Sam Al-
League after his late equalizer lardyce’s side a third win in four
denied the Baggies a derby win at games after Matheus Pereira’s penal-
Aston Villa on Sunday. ty had canceled out Anwar El Ghazi’s
early spot kick.
The striker’s injury-time goal — after
Kyle Bartley’s mistake — earned Villa Despite the point, Villa’s season —
a 2-2 draw to stop West Brom claim- which once threatened European
ing another priceless victory. qualification — is now fading into
midtable obscurity without injured
Time is running out for West Brom, skipper Jack Grealish and it has
which is nine points from safety with won just two of the 10 games he has
five games left. missed.

(AP) — Chris Wood scored a
first-half hat trick and set up the Wood capitalized on poor defending
other goal for Burnley to rout to head in his third goal a minute be-
Wolverhampton 4-0 in the Pre- fore halftime.
mier League on Sunday.
Wood set up Ashley Westwood to
The New Zealand international complete the rout with five minutes
opened the scoring at Molineux in of normal time remaining.
the 15th minute with a low shot in-
side the far post from a difficult an- Burnley climbed further away from
gle, six minutes before he made it 2-0 the relegation zone to 14th, five
with a close-range finish. points behind 12th-place Wolves.