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Darren Moore delighted to reach 50 goals with West Brom

Darren Moore has hailed his Albion side for reaching 50 goals in the Championship - because 'scoring goals is the hardest thing to do'.

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The Baggies have scored four or more goals six times in the league this season.

They have reached 50 goals at the halfway stage of the campaign, putting them on course to hit a ton before the season finishes.

"I'm absolutely delighted with that," said Moore. “To score 50 goals at this stage of the season is really good.

“It shows the intelligence of the players. The hardest thing is to score goals.

“To have that 50 marker is very rewarding. We have to continue doing the same."

Rotherham didn't deserve to be 3-0 down at half-time, and Moore admitted it was not as easy as the scoreline suggested.

"We go into every game with the utmost respect for the opposition," he said. “It’s a difficult place to come as they’ve only lost one game here.

“We worked in training on something to prepare us. What happened here was that we started on the front foot.

“The early goal helped and then we felt that they would have to come out more so.

“We didn’t allow them any momentum.You can see why they’ve got such a good record at home because they never stop asking questions.

“I was delighted with the way the boys worked off the ball.

“When it was on for us to play today, we played and when we got into those forward positions we carried a goal threat.

“Those parts of the game helped us come away with an emphatic win today.

“The shape of the team pleased me, the discipline, the decisions they made between each other.

“The way they worked so hard off the ball and when they had it they showed great intelligence.

“We took away a lot of their goal threat.

“I’m really pleased with the work we have done in training and that it has worked here."