Wolves 1 Blackburn 1: Timely reminder of skills from Ebanks-Blake
Apr 24 2010
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake came off the substitutes' bench to rescue a point for Wolves and put them on the brink of Barclays Premier League survival against Blackburn at Molineux.
Ebanks-Blake had only been on the pitch for barely a minute when he headed home an 80th-minute centre from Stephen Ward.
It cancelled out a first-half opener from Rovers skipper Ryan Nelsen and was Wolves' first goal in 469 minutes of football.
Hundreds of Wolves fans invaded the pitch at the end of the game and the share of the spoils means only Burnley, who entertain Liverpool tomorrow, of the current bottom three can overhaul Wolves.
Ebanks-Blake scored 25 goals last season to help Wolves gain promotion from the Coca-Cola Championship but the former Plymouth player has been a peripheral figure during the current campaign - until now.
Wolves enjoyed plenty of early possession but Blackburn could afford to play with freedom given their mid-table position.
The visitors almost caught Wolves on the counter-attack but Yildiray Basturk over-hit his cross to Martin Olsson who was in plenty of space on the far side of the box.
Wolves had a sniff of a chance when a cross from Ward picked out the run of David Edwards but he directed his header back across the six-yard box instead of towards goal.
Blackburn came close to taking the lead with the first clear-cut opening after 19 minutes.
Nikola Kalinic climbed above the Wolves defence to meet a left-wing centre from Olsson and his header thudded against a post with Hahnemann well beaten.
