[Albion] Have we ever had a truly crushing last gasp defeat?

[Deadly Danson]

Spurs was only a few weeks ago.

And the penalty shoot out v Man Utd is not even a year ago.

Yeah but they were only standard, albeit disappointing, defeats. We've lost loads of games to a last minute goal. I was thinking more along the lines of a massive match where defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory and was season defining. So in the Watford v Leicester game for example if Knockaert scores the penalty Leicester are through (I think) but within 60 seconds not only has he missed but Watford have scored the winner. Absolutely soul destroying for Leicester. Same for Bayern when they had just about won the Champions League and into injury time and within a couple of minutes not only have they conceeded an equaliser but have also lost. Truly crushing - a moment that the winner will never ever forget but the loser can't forget either

 

[chaileyjem]

Yeah but they were only standard, albeit disappointing, defeats. We've lost loads of games to a last minute goal. I was thinking more along the lines of a massive match where defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory and was season defining. So in the Watford v Leicester game for example if Knockaert scores the penalty Leicester are through (I think) but within 60 seconds not only has he missed but Watford have scored the winner. Absolutely soul destroying for Leicester. Same for Bayern when they had just about won the Champions League and into injury time and within a couple of minutes not only have they conceeded an equaliser but have also lost. Truly crushing

The closest moment like that is Stevens red card v Boro in 2016 / Watford/leicester is an incredible moment. Aguero another and Michael Thomas but there aren’t many of em. Certainly not for Albion in last minute anyway.

 

[Deadly Danson]

The closest moment like that is Stevens red card v Boro in 2016

Yeah, a terrible day but we still had time to rectify it. Not that I've ever forgiven Mike Dean though.

 

[Gwylan]

Not sure if it was last minute, but remember a crushing defeat away at Chesterfield around 2000/01 season when we were both going for the title. Oatway had been sent off sometime in the match and we deserved a point and a late goal did for us.

Yeah, that's the one I immediately remember. It put us some way behind Chesterfield and it was a game that we shouldn't have lost. It was a miserable train journey home. I also split up with my girlfriend the next day, just to round off the weekend.

Fo

 

[The Optimist]

Solly blasting the penalty over the bar in the FA Cup semi final was pretty bleak.

If it counts then this tops it for me. The Villa defeat cost us the title but we still went up. Others were annoying at the time but didn’t cost us an FA Cup final appearance.

 

[Bob!]

Not a defeat, but it felt like it to me.

I had a bet on Bruno 1-0, all good until the 96th minute!

Brighton 1-1 Bolton

David Ngog's 96th-minute goal gives Bolton an unlikely point at Brighton, who hit the woodwork three times and also missed a penalty.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[wolfie]

Cheltenham(a) in 2008. We led 1-0 until Gillespie scored twice in stoppage time.

 

[Machiavelli]

I was pretty grumpy after Spurs away this season.

Me too, but it was hardly season-defining. It was a last minute (of injury time) winner though. That said, I was far more angry after Spurs away last season. I can normally take defeats, but was seething after that one.