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Boss Tony Pulis believes West Brom were robbed of two penalties against Swansea at the Liberty Stadium today.

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The Baggies' head coach reckopns there was 'no way' his side should have lost and claimed his team up to take the game to the hosts.

Albion lost 1-0 to a managerless Swansea team without a win in seven games prior to today.

But Chris Brunt was felled by Angel Rangel in the box during the first half, and then substitute Callum McManaman went over Leon Britton's leg five minutes before the end.

On both occasions referee Roger East waved the penalty appeals away. Pulis said: "The big disappointment today is the fact that, having just watched the replays, it's two penalties.

"The first one on Chris Brunt is a stonewall penalty. The lad actually goes for the ball but Chris just touches it away and he goes through him.

"Then Callum, we've seen it again and the lad catches him. We've had a penalty given against us last week that was outside the box and today we should have had two.

"Two against Leicester we should have had, but the lads were fantastic. They worked really hard, especially second-half, they really upped it.

"If there was any justice we would not be coming away with no points."

Both Salomon Rondon and James McClean started their three-match bans today for their red cards against Bournemouth.

Pulis brought in Claudio Yacob for McClean and Rickie Lambert for Rondon, leaving Stephane Sessegnon and Saido Berahino on the bench.

But Pulis was pleased with how his team pressed Swansea on the ball and won it in dangerous positions.

He said: "We came to have a real go. We watched the game against West Ham last week where Swansea had 75 per cent possession.

"We completely dominated the game, as we didn't want that to happen today. We sat ourselves up to try and get after them, work them as much as we possibly could.

"We're disappointed because there's no way we should have been losing this game."

East denied Albion two penalties and wasn't popular with the home fans, either. Pulis said: "I've not spoken to him. He's five yards away (from the Brunt penalty).

"But there we are. It feels like it's almost pre-planned, but that's not the case at all. He's made some bad decisions today, what we've got to do now is make sure we're ready for Monday."