Tony Mowbray outlines how West Brom must improve after battling point

The Baggies boss spoke with his side in the wake of a 1-1 draw at Millwall, in which the visitors required late saves to preserve a point, and said the players want to become a side "expected to win games".

Both goals at The Den came in the opening 25 minutes as towering defender Jake Cooper's headed opener was cancelled out by a Joe Bryan own goal.

Albion were strong in the remainder of the first period but it was Alex Neil's hosts who had more of the second half and Baggies goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith had to make a string of solid stops as the visitors defended well to see out the point.

Mowbray said: "It was alright, I just said to the team, somewhere down the line, somewhere in the distance we have to come here and not be satisfied with a fighting point.

"We have to dominate better, we have to control better, better at playing through the opposition.

"The test today was against a Millwall team that lost five goals in midweek, against a Millwall team up for it - we had to show a different quality.

"But moving forward I would like the team to have more control whatever the opposition do.

"Let's put the point in the bag. Let's make sure we get three points next week against Oxford."

The head coach is still without a clean sheet in his first six games back at the club. This was a first draw, with three defeats and two victories.

He added: "The bottom line - with total respect (to Millwall) - we should be having more control and not be having to do as many last-ditch blocks and the keeper making good saves.

"We should be pushing them back, and having control of the ball. It's OK, I think that's for somewhere down the line as we work together and talking to the players I think they agree. I think they want to be the team that expects to win football matches."

Mowbray gave a first start in more than three months to Semi Ajayi to add extra physicality to Albion's backline. Combative midfielder Ousmane Diakite also came in for a first start under the head coach.

The Albion boss also handed a welcome cameo return for Daryl Dike - one year and five days since his Achilles injury at Ipswich last season.

Despite the increased stature in the visitors' side, towering dominant home skipper Cooper nodded home his third headed opening on 17 minutes. Bryan's own goal eight minutes later came from Darnell Furlong's cross after good work from Grady Diangana, who impressed.

"Thankfully I had Darnell on my side, I tried to get him further up the pitch early on in the game and an opportunity came and he got played in," added Mowbray.

"I'm not sure how it went in, it hit the boy's standing kick and went in. For the 10 or 15 minutes after we scored that goal we should've scored again, it hit the underside of the bar, kicked off the line, a good save.

"But the longer the game went on, they built momentum, the crowd influenced the game, we did well to see it out at one each."