Carlos Corberan admits West Brom celebration has been marred
Boss Carlos Corberan admits a recent slump has soured the taste of his Albion tenure – but heightened his desire to succeed.
The Baggies boss marked two years at the club last Friday, a rare feat in the modern age, but Albion have gone five hours without a goal at The Hawthorns and are winless in six games in all.
Corberan, appointed two years ago with the club in the Championship's bottom three, led his side to the cusp of the play-offs and then a fifth-placed finish last term before defeat to Southampton. The Baggies are fifth once again despite a poorest sequence under the Spaniard.
The head coach said: "I arrived to the club in a very challenging and difficult moment. We have grown from this moment but sometimes in football the flavour of the last weeks can be stronger than the flavour of two years. That's how I understand football for fans and even for me too.
"If I look back we have achieved more positive things than negative things but I know the size of this club and I would like to achieve putting the club where it deserves."
Corberan added: "We were too close (to victory) against Oxford, we have been too close today, so imagine if you attached these four points more how close we can be or how far away we can be.
"But in football what happened today will be forgotten soon. We will analyse the coaches according to the results achieved and in the last six games we didn't achieve the wins. There are things me as a coach I need to fix and things as a team we need to fix too.
"Sometimes when the results are no good and you change things sometimes you can lose identity, lose control, lose more than to win. In front of the difficulty what has to appear is the best of ourselves."
The former Huddersfield and Olympiacos boss introduced a plane flying in turbulent weather analogy to describe his side's form.
"When a plane is in flight and the weather conditions are not good this is probably this moment and you can see the level of the pilot," he said. "When the plane is being taken control by the computer. This is similar but not only me as a coach, but all of us as a team."
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