Slaven Bilic: West Brom working on deals for two forwards

The Baggies saw their winless run in the Championship stretch to seven matches after they gifted Neil Harris’ side two goals in Wales.

Prior to the game, it was revealed Sheffield United forward Callum Robinson had a medical at Albion’s training ground earlier in the day as he closes in on a loan move to The Hawthorns.

And speaking after the loss to Cardiff, a visibly deflated Bilic confirmed the club are still working on additions ahead of the transfer window closing on Friday.

“We had a plan to try and get a couple,” Bilic said.

“Hopefully we are going to do it but we can’t rely only on that. We need it (a turnaround) to come from inside the group.”

Asked if he was still looking for two forward's Bilic said: "Yes, the same."

Bilic was once again left rueing his team’s defending after they again gifted the opposition two goals, just like they did at Charlton earlier this month.

“We need it back - we need the team back,” he said.

“I told the guys we need to look at each other - not as soon as possible - now.

“We need to look at what we had, we don’t have it at the moment.

“We can’t say we were unlucky in these seven games.

“We can’t blame anybody but us and we have to get it back. It’s as simple as that.

“We have to be honest and say at Cardiff we were not good enough.

“We did not expect a pretty game, we did not expect a beautiful game.

“But you have to defend. You have to match them at the things that are good at.

“And you have to do it all the time, for 90 minutes, for 95 minutes.

“But no, simply not good enough at the moment.”

Cardiff’s first goal arrived just seconds after Albion kicked-off with Hal Robson-Kanu passing the ball to Dara O’Shea.

His cross-field pass then sailed out of play with the hosts then launching in a long throw with Kyle Bartley failed to deal with before Callum Paterson slammed the ball into the net.

Charlie Austin then pulled Albion level from the penalty spot.

But the hosts regained the lead when Lee Tomlin curled in a wonderful free-kick.

That goal, though, came after the Baggies lost possession playing out from the back.

And Bilic said you can’t expect to win games when you defend so poorly.

“We knew it wasn’t going to be a pretty game,” the head coach said.

“We expected a game of very few chances. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy to score against them.

“But you can’t concede goals like that, especially the one at the start of the first-half. It’s a throw-in.

“We can talk that they are dangerous at throw-ins but we can’t concede like that.

“We came back into the game and looked good after that.

“But then we gave the ball away in the area where it is very, very dangerous.

“The ball to Matt Phillips, he has got no chance of keeping that ball. And then there is no reaction to that second ball and we make a foul in front of the box.

“The lad had a great finish. After that, okay, we had a couple of chances to score. But no, not good enough.”