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Burton denies Baggies

Deon Burton kept Sheffield Wednesday's faint Coca-Cola Championship play-off hopes alive with a second-half winner against Tony Mowbray's nine-man West Brom.

Burton extended the Owls unbeaten run to 10 matches with a 60th minute strike - his 12th of the season - and they are now just three points outside of the top six.

It ended Albion's slim chances of breaking into the automatic promotion spots and, to add to their misery, Neil Clement and Darren Carter were sent off in injury-time.

Clement was given a straight red card after headbutting Leon Clarke and Carter quickly followed after receiving his second booking of the game.

On the hour, Albion were stunned when Burton broke the deadlock - Chris Brunt was the creator with a low ball across the six-yard box from the left and Burton squeezed the ball over the line despite the efforts of Dean Kiely to keep it out and his protests to the referee's assistant.

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