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West Brom fear no one, roars Chris Brunt

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Albion defender Chris Brunt says Saturday's victory over Arsenal has taken the pressure off the club.

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The Baggies are halfway through a daunting run of six games against Leicester, Man United, Arsenal, West Ham, Spurs and Liverpool.

Five of those teams are in current top six and the other match is a trip to Anfield, but Brunt isn't worried about playing the big teams.

"We've got a lot of tough games coming up over the next three or four weeks and that maybe takes a little bit of pressure off you if you've got a result in one of them," said Brunt.

"On our day we're capable of beating anybody, hopefully that can be the start of a bit of a run.

"We started well after the last international break so hopefully we can go to West Ham next week and get a result."

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Albion have now won three of their last five games and the two that were lost were against the current top two. Saturday's victory means Tony Pulis' side have now beaten Man United, Chelsea, and Arsenal in the last six months.

Brunt had an eventful game. After Olivier Giroud nodded Arsenal in front it was the left-back's floated free-kick which James Morrison guided over Petr Cech for the equaliser.

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It was also his push on Alexis Sanchez which gave away the penalty eight minutes from time. He picked up his fifth yellow card of the season for the challenge and will miss this Sunday's game at Upton Park.

"I think we were a little disappointed with the goal in the first half because we started the game reasonably well and conceded the goal from a set play," said Brunt.

"We pride ourselves on how well we defend them and how well we do them attacking wise.

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"But credit to the lads we dug in and played pretty well in the first half. When we were on the break we created some good chances.

"It was nice to go in at half-time 2-1 up and when teams are throwing everything at us we know what we're doing."