A brilliant goal from Gareth Hall earned lowly Swindon only their second point in seven games and denied struggling West Brom their first victory in 13 games.

Brian Little's Albion took the lead at The Hawthorns with a 73rd minute penalty after substitute keeper Steve Mildenhall pulled down striker Lee Hughes as he broke for goal.

Hughes opted to take the spot-kick himself and he made no mistake with a low-hard drive past the diving Mildenhall to claim his first goal in eight games.

But bottom-placed Swindon levelled the scores four minutes later when the impressive Hall claimed his second goal in Town's last three games.

Andy Williams crossed for Hall to lash a brilliant 20-yard shot past keeper Chris Adamson into the net.

The Albion manager will now be seeking urgent talks with his directors to find out how much money he can spend from the £4.3million sale of midfielder Enzo Maresca to Juventus - a deal completed just hours before kick-off.

It was Little's men who held the edge in the opening 45 minutes but they failed to find the target with Hughes squandering a good chance after just seven minutes when his shot was weak.

Then, in the 25th minute, Hughes blazed a shot across the face of the Swindon goal while moments later Sean Flynn was denied by a marvellous diving save from Frank Talia who bowed out of the action at the break injured.

The first real threat by Swindon to the Albion goalmouth did not come until the 57th minute when Hall burst through on the left to fire in a shot that keeper Adamson did well to fingertip away.

Teams

West Brom: Adamson, Burgess, Chambers (Potter 84), Sigurdsson, Carbon, Townsend, Sneekes, Flynn, Van Blerk, Quinn (Evans 70), Hughes.

Subs Not Used: Miller, Raven, Oliver.

Booked: Chambers, Hughes.

Goals: Hughes 73 pen.

Swindon: Talia (Mildenhall 45), Robinson, Davies, Reeves, Hall, McHugh (Hulbert 71), Leitch, Collins (Cowe 80), Williams, Hay, McCammon.

Subs Not Used: Campagna, Cuervo.

Booked: Mildenhall, Davies.

Goals: Hall 77.

Att: 11,856.

Ref: P Joslin (Newark, Notts).