'I don't want to say something I don't mean' - Ryan Mason will rest on West Brom debrief after sickening finale

The Baggies head coach was left bitterly disappointed after his side shipped a 93rd-minute own goal through Nat Phillips to gift Leicester a scarcely-deserved point in a 1-1 draw at The Hawthorns on Friday night.

Sammy Iling-Junior's wonderful individual effort 10 minutes his first Albion start looked the difference between the two sides after the hosts spurned several second-half chances, including a Josh Maja sitter just prior to the Foxes' leveller.

Mason side were poised to climb into second but stung late on for the second home game running and the head coach admitted his frustration was due to how high he rated his troops' performance.

The head coach said he will speak to his players to evaluate the performance when they regroup for training on Saturday morning.

"I've not spoke to the players," Mason told the Express & Star. "I think it's important that we feel the pain of something like this because it's so emotional and my feeling of the game that we played was extremely good.

"(We had) so much personality, especially in the second half. I thought we showed so much quality, so much personality to play, created some really good moments.

"We didn't score, which was probably the only criticism I can have of the group. Apart from that, I have so much belief in the team and in what we're doing and the work we do. But we want to win games of football.

"That's what we're here for. That's what everyone inside of the club is working for every single day. So it's disappointing."

Mason added: "There's pain. I don't speak to the players after every game. I've got the opportunity to do that in the morning. I don't want to say something that I don't mean because I love the performance, but I'm not a coach that's someone who just loves performances.

"I want to win and I know what it takes to win. I need to try and get that message across to the players daily to keep pushing and striving for more because we deserve so much more. I think I might be wrong, but I think we've only conceded one shot on target again across 90 minutes.

"It's the second home game in a row that that's happened and we've come away with one point in those two games. So that's disappointing. There's so much good."

Iling-Junior's stunner looked like being the difference and lifting Albion into second in the Championship ahead of the rest of the weekend's action.

Leicester sub Bobby De Cordova-Reid fired in a late cross-shot deep into stoppage time that Baggies defender Phillips could only turn into his own net with Leicester's only effort on target.

Asked to sum up his emotion immediately after the result the Albion head coach replied: "I don't really think I can. I don't really want to try and sum it up to be honest because it's still so fresh, so much emotion because it's tough to accept when you play a game of football like that, when you deserve so much more and you don't come away with what you deserve.

"It's painful, it hurts. I want everyone inside of the club, the players, the staff, everyone to be hurting too because we want to win. We want to know what it takes to win and we need to strive for more.

"So much good stuff deserves so much more but 1-0 is a dangerous scoreline and when you create good opportunities and don't put the game to bed, you always run the risk of allowing the opposition back in and to concede so late on in a nature in what we did is bitterly disappointing and something we need to work on."