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West Brom ended their two-year Premier League exile after a nervy 2-2 draw with QPR.<\/p>\nWest Brom ended their two-year Premier League exile after a nervy 2-2 draw with QPR.<\/p>\n
The Baggies crawled across the line to seal second spot in the Sky Bet Championship after Brentford lost 2-1 to Barnsley.<\/p>\n
Had the Bees won Albion would have dropped into the play-offs but Slaven Bilic\u2019s side survived an agonizing final few minutes to celebrate promotion.<\/p>\n
Ebere Eze denied them the victory which would have made Wednesday night\u2019s finale at The Hawthorns much easier.<\/p>\n
Callum Robinson had put the Baggies 2-1 ahead after Grady Diangana cancelled out Ryan Manning\u2019s first-half opener for QPR.<\/p>\n
It was a night for the neutral during an entertaining final evening in the division and the Baggies initially showed few signs of nerves despite what was at stake.<\/p>\n
Joe Lumley smothered at Diangana\u2019s feet after the forward tried to burst clear and the recalled Robinson glanced Darnell Furlong\u2019s cross wide.<\/p>\n
Vocal QPR stopper Lumley was busy and he got down well to save Romaine Sawyers\u2019 low effort after 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
Albion made the running with Matheus Pereira twice ballooned over but they failed to take an early lead.<\/p>\n
Slowly, the visitors gained a foothold and it was evident there was not going to be a repeat of the 7-1 thumping they suffered in their last visit to The Hawthorns.<\/p>\n
The mid-table visitors had nothing hanging on the game but they played their part in the promotion drama by stunning the Baggies with the opener after 34 minutes.<\/p>\n
Manning collected the ball 20 yards out and, while Kyle Bartley blocked his first effort, the ball fell kindly for the midfielder to drill a second strike low into the corner.<\/p>\n
But Albion refused to buckle and leveled 10 minutes later when Diangana slotted through Lumley\u2019s legs after being slipped through by Robinson.<\/p>\n
On-loan Sheffield United forward Robinson then had a goal disallowed for offside and flashed a volley wide in first-half injury time.<\/p>\n
It was only a warning for what was to come as the Baggies turned the game around five minutes after the break.<\/p>\n
Diangana\u2019s brilliant skill bamboozled Luke Amos and Osman Kakay to find the unmarked Robinson in the area and he tapped in from six yards.<\/p>\n
It was just the 25-year-old\u2019s second start since the Championship resumed and he should have made it 3-1 four minutes later, only to shoot wide with just Lumley to beat.<\/p>\n
It proved a costly miss as the positive and competitive Rangers leveled after 61 minutes with a magical strike from Eze.<\/p>\n
Yoann Barbet\u2019s long ball found Eze, who took advantage of Dara O\u2019Shea\u2019s poor positioning to effortlessly find the top corner from 18 yards.<\/p>\n
As news filtered through of a Brentford leveler, Filip Krovinovic was denied by Lumley to set up a tense final 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
But Barnsley\u2019s late winner at Griffin Park eased the nerves and saw the Baggies coaching staff urging their players back from a corner to ensure they collected the point they needed.<\/p>\n