A disappointing evening at The Hawthorns as managerless Blackburn Rovers beat the Baggies 2-0 to go above us in the EFL Championship table.
Unbeaten in four months at The Hawthorns coming into this one, very confident and upbeat since the Sheffield Wednesday game on Saturday and somehow this has to be one of the worst games I’ve seen at home since Steve Bruce was in charge it was diabolical.
The decisions by the officials also didn’t help when they disallowed the two goals that should of been given but we was in control throughout some parts of the game but didn’t even seem to try and give it a go.
Three changes were made prior to the game as Mason Holgate, Tom Fellows and Mikey Johnston replaced Kyle Bartley, Karlan Grant and Grady Diangana who were on the bench.
A quiet first half with us not creating too many chances despite being in control of the half, Blackburn had created better chances with John Buckley firing off the target and Thrhys Dolan forced Joe Wildsmith into a save.
Torbjorn Heggem went close only to head the ball against the post in the first half.
More of an action-packed contest after the first half, though unfortunately it was not in our side. Blackburn found the opening goal by Gueye’s effort in the 47th minute.
After the goal the Baggies did find the net twice in-between those goals via Adam Armstrong and substitute Will Lankshear, however they were both disallowed for a foul and offside respectively. In my opinion the goals should of stood and if VAR was in this league I think we would lead the game 2-1.
However, Rovers found the double with Gueye putting the Baggies into misery by converting a Rovers counter attack.
West Brom 0-2 Blackburn Rovers
West Brom: Wildsmith; Furlong, Holgate, Heggem, Styles; Molumby, Mowatt (Swift 70), Price (Wallace 70); Fellows (Diangana 56), Armstrong, Johnston (Lankshear 56).
A very frustrating evening it was at The Hawthorns, done over by poor officials in the EFL and the side didn’t really put in a good performance that made fans leave around the 70th minute mark, unfortunately I stayed till the last kick and witnessed the whole 97 minutes of pain.
Pain it was, onto more when we visit Millwall on Saturday and hoping we could bounce back as us in a play-off place still does make me wonder we don’t deserve to be there with the way we’ve been playing lately. Match Preview for Millwall is out Friday evening.