Ryan Mason delighted for West Brom travelling faithful after ending barren run

Boss Ryan Mason was chuffed to deliver rare away joy to the Albion faithful after a barren run away from The Hawthorns.

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The Baggies spoilt Wrexham's Racecourse opening party with a 3-2 victory in north Wales with Isaac Price twice on target and Jed Wallace pouncing from the bench.

It handed Albion a first away victory in the Championship in 16 attempts - dating back to Hull last November - to end a miserable sequence of winless clashes around the UK for the travelling faithful.

"It was excellent," Mason said. "Most importantly, we won the game. I thought we deserved to win the game as well.

"It was a really good performance away from home. It's been a hell of a long time since we've won away from home in this league. It was very nice to get that win and create that feeling inside of a changing room."

Albion looked good value to take a 1-0 half-time lead through Price but they gifted an equaliser to Lewis O'Brien.

Wrexham looked strong backed by a lively atmosphere in parts of the second half, before a double Mason change paid off as substitute Wallace netted from fellow change Mikey Johnston's assist. Johnston then laid on the third for Price to find the target again before a late consolation.

"We understand every game in this division is extremely tough, but at the same time, that's far too long for any team to go about winning away from home," added the head coach.

"I'm glad we got the win today. I thought we really deserved it. I thought we had some really nice moments.

"We stood up. We stood up as a team and as a squad. In my opinion, we got what we deserved."

Mason made it two league wins from two to at least temporarily go top of the pile in the Championship. It was also first successive league wins in the same season since last September.

Price's double added to his opening-day match-winner against Blackburn for three goals in two league games.

"I understand if you switch off for the tiny moment in this division, in any division to be honest, you can get punished and I felt like we did," added Mason. "So it was disappointing to concede so close to half-time, but the response from the lads was excellent.

"I thought the second half would come out with a real directness to our play. We had to fight, of course we did. We had to suffer at times and work for each other, but we had some real moments of quality in there as well, which is pleasing.

"There was a little five-minute spell where we felt like the energy in the stadium was probably changing a little bit too much for them. That's why we made the subs ultimately. Both our wingers put in incredible work for the team in that first 60-70 minutes."

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