Brentford v Bournemouth: Championship play-off semi-final, second leg – live!

9.41am EDT 09:41

So, Brentford will play Swansea or Barnsley at Wembley after a wildly entertaining, slightly unhinged game of football. It turned on two moments – a debatable penalty when Brentford were 2-0 down on aggregate (I thought it was the right decision, though others didn’t), then Chris Mepham’s disastrous red card in the 28th minute. Bournemouth worked ferociously hard to stay in the tie, by fair means or foul, but eventually succumbed to a late goal from the substitute Marcus Forss.

9.37am EDT 09:37

“Rob,” says Ivor Leonard. “Can you give my mate in Hobart a shout? He’s a Brentford fan because he’s called David Gentford! He’s had a rollercoaster over the last few years. Really hoping that they do it for him this time. Think he’s the most knowledgeable man in Hobart on Brentford…”

Why not: congratulations Mr Gentford!

9.34am EDT 09:34

Pontus Jansson speaks “This is football [looks at the fans], I’ve missed it so much. I’m just so fucking happy! Without [the fans] today I don’t think we would have made it. We have to win the final, we haven’t done anything, but we are so happy to have the fans back. This is football.”

Updated at 9.36am EDT

9.34am EDT 09:34

The final whistle prompts a guttural roar from somebody standing inappropriately close to a TV mic, and then come the smiles and the euphoria. It’s a lovely scene, especially as there are fans in the ground, but you have to feel for the Bournemouth players. They are broken.

Joy for the Brentford players and fans. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters

Updated at 9.44am EDT

9.31am EDT 09:31

Full time: Brentford 3-1 Bournemouth (agg: 3-2)

Brentford are through to another play-of final after a tumultous victory over Bournemouth!

9.29am EDT 09:29

90+2 min The corner is headed away by Pinnock. Begovic stays forward, but is caught offside when a cross comes back into the box. That was not the smartest bit of play, especially as his teammates were telling him for about 15 seconds that he was offside.

9.28am EDT 09:28

90+2 min Danjuma’s free-kick is headed up and over his own bar by Toney. Begovic stays forward.

9.27am EDT 09:27

90 min Dalsgaard is booked for a moronic foul on Danjuma near the left touchline. This is a chance for Bournemouth, and Begovic is coming forward.

9.26am EDT 09:26

90 min The outstanding Bryan Mbuemo is replaced by Mads Bidstrup.

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88 min It’s David Raya’s turn to whip out War and Peace before he takes a goalkick. Thomas Frank’s watch is no longer being tapped.

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88 min Bournemouth do get the ball, and keep it for a little while, but then Long’s cross is too deep for Danjuma.

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87 min “6.30 on a Saturday morning is not prime sports-watching time,” says Adam Roberts, “but this game is like a quadruple espresso.”

9.23am EDT 09:23

87 min Bournemouth’s 10 men are struggling to get the ball, never mind keep it. After a long spell of possession, Fosu’s cross is just too heavy for the tireless Mbuemo.

9.22am EDT 09:22

86 min I think, had VAR been in use, Marcus Forss’s armpit hair would have been offside in the build up to that third goal.

9.21am EDT 09:21

85 min This would be a sickening defeat for Bournemouth, who have worked so hard with 10 men. Cameron Carter-Vickers has been especially heroic.

9.20am EDT 09:20

84 min Emiliano has a shot blocked after good play from Toney, and then Fosu’s overhit cross almost sneaks in the far corner.

9.18am EDT 09:18

Dalsgaard moved forward, shaped to shoot and then clipped an angled ball into the area. Smith did well to win it in the air, ahead of Forss, but could only head it to Emiliano on the left of the area. He hammered a left-footed cross towards the near post, where Forss stuck out his first leg leg to volley into the net from six yards. I thought it was an own goal from Carter-Vickers at first but replays show it was unquestionably Forss’s touch, and a damn fine one at that.

Marcus Forss of Brentford gets a touch to send the ball goalwards … Photograph: Ian Tuttle/BPI/Shutterstock Then watches the ball goes past Bournemouth’s keeper Asmir Begovic and into the net to give Brentford the lead in the tie. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty Images Forss celebrates his goal. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters

Updated at 9.30am EDT

9.17am EDT 09:17

GOAL! Brentford 3-1 Bournemouth (agg: 3-2; Forss 81)

Brentford are ahead for the first time in the tie!

Updated at 9.18am EDT

9.16am EDT 09:16

80 min “Hi Rob,” says Brian Withington. “Begovic making full use of opportunity to audition for Comedia Dell’Arte? Possibly a bit too tall for Punchinello, though.”

All these highbrow references going straight over my head. What do you think this is, the Guardian?

9.15am EDT 09:15

78 min Jansson is booked for a foul on Begovic after he claims a corner.

9.14am EDT 09:14

78 min It’s attack v defence now. Emiliano, 20 yards out, makes room for a nice curling shot that is punched away by Begovic as he dives to his left. A comfortable save.

9.13am EDT 09:13

76 min Toney is penalised for fouling Rico off the ball. He needs to be careful, having had a yellow card, though Rico did make the most of it, and then a bit more for the road.

Updated at 9.13am EDT

9.11am EDT 09:11

75 min Another change for Bournemouth: Jack Stacey replaces Dominic Solanke, which suggests a switch to 8-0-1. You can’t blame Jonathan Woodgate in the circumstances.

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75 min “You know what this game needs?” says Robert Speed. “VAR.”

9.10am EDT 09:10

74 min Canos’s deep cross is headed back across goal by Mbuemo and cleared quite brilliantly by Carter-Vickers in the six-yard box. Toney was waiting behind him to score. Mbuemo has had a sensational second half.

9.10am EDT 09:10

73 min A deep cross from Pinnock is headed back across goal by Toney and out for a throw-in. He was going for goal but was under a lot of pressure from Rico. Meanwhile, replays show that was an excellent chance for Emiliano a moment ago. He got the wrong side of Pearson, six yards out, but mistimed a half-volley between his own legs.

9.08am EDT 09:08

71 min Mbuemo wins another corner for Brentford. He takes it himself, swinging it towards the far post. It somehow beats everyone in the middle – including Emiliano, who had a good chance on the half-volley. He was under pressure from Pearson and the ball slithered under his foot.

9.06am EDT 09:06

70 min Dalsgaard plays a terrific pass inside Solanke for Mbeumo, whose cross is spanked over on the volley by Toney. That was a chance, albeit a sharp one. Mbeumo’s pace and movement have made him a constant menace today, first at centre-forward and now, even more so, at right wing-back.

Updated at 9.07am EDT

9.05am EDT 09:05

68 min More fun and games from Begovic, who falls over in his own six-yard box before a Brentford throw-in. He tells the referee that Forss deliberately kicked him; replays show there was a slight brush of sock against sock.

9.03am EDT 09:03

67 min Begovic again takes an age over a goalkick. The referee wold be within his rights to give him a second yellow card, though there’s very little chance of that happening. Moments later, a zesty, calculated ball-and-man tackle from Smith irritates Canos, who squares up to him afterwards.

9.02am EDT 09:02

66 min “I’m very much hoping that Kevin Ryan’s friend (47 min) is not following the match,” says Daniel Barnett, “then, what with it being played on Shabbos.”

9.02am EDT 09:02

65 min Bournemouth have been through the spin cycle ever since Chris Mepham’s slapstick red card in the 28th minute, yet they are still level in the tie and hanging on grimly. There have been too many unimaginable twists in the playoffs down the years for us to assume anything about Brentford going to Wembley.

9.00am EDT 09:00

64 min Another change for Brentford: the goalscorer Vitaly Janel is replaced by Saman Ghoddos.

8.58am EDT 08:58

62 min Danjuma shows great skill to beat two players in the Brentford area and lay the ball back to the onrushing Solanke on the edge of the area. He is expertly shepherded away from the ball by Dalsgaard.

8.57am EDT 08:57

61 min “Is anyone else,” begins Sam Campbell, “looking forward to Jack Wilshire coming on later to calm things down a bit?”

8.57am EDT 08:57

60 min Canos’s cross is headed away to Dalsgaard, 25 yards out. He sprays it high over the bar.

8.55am EDT 08:55

58 min If nothing else happens in the next 32 minutes – arf – the tie will go to extra-time.