Ally Robertson: Tense, tough but a win is a win and West Brom needed it!
A first home game and a first win for Albion – but it was a case of ‘Oh God, blow the whistle!’ in the excruciating closing stages against Swansea on Saturday.
But for 60 or 65 minutes, Swansea didn’t look like they would have a chance against us. Defensively and in midfield we played brilliantly, we didn’t give them one bit of space or any opportunity.
But the minute we made the changes, it seemed to let them come into the game all of a sudden.
I think Carlos Corberan thought we were in a position to rest a couple of players, Okay Yokuslu being one, at 3-0 up. They came into the game in midfield thereafter.
As for the set-pieces, corners tore us apart at the end. Their four big lads were attacking those corners around about the penalty spot unmarked. They scored directly from one, another led to a goal and they almost scored more from them!
We had four players lined up on the six-yard box, but the ball wasn’t coming there. It was going further out, I couldn’t work out why a couple of our lads couldn’t push out. It needed a leader on the park to organise that.
