Five Star Baggies took Portsmouth to storm at The Hawthorns on Saturday afternoon in Tony Mowbray’s first home game back at The Hawthorns since May 2009.
The Baggies were put under pressure by Portsmouth during the early stages, Alex Palmer keeping out Andre Dozzell’s volley and Ryley Towler nodding a corner wide.
From then, Baggies were dominant where Alex Mowatt began the scoring with a long range volley that went through Portsmouth’s keeper Nicolas Schmid.
Diangana then secured the second goal, Mikey Johnston went around Portsmouth’s defence and saw a shot saved for only Grady Diangana to net in the rebound.
Diangana then set up the third, playing Jed Wallace in and watched the captain convert his first goal of the season.
The Baggies rounded off a brilliant opening period just before half time where Mason Holgate’s direct pass over the top of the Pompey defence gave Grady Diangana to grab the goal again to give Portsmouth a first half demolishing.
In the second half, the baggies got a fifth when Mikey Johnston caused problems once again and allowed John Swift to smash past Schmid.
The head coach brought on Isaac Price for his debut and there were further opportunities in the final stages. Most importantly Fellows had a finish stopped and, down the other end, Heggem brilliantly blocked Josh Murphy’s attempt.
Portsmouth did prevent Albion earning a clean sheet, getting a very late consolation via Thomas Waddington, however the three points went to the Baggies and they are into 5th in the Championship.
West Brom: Palmer; Furlong, Holgate, Heggem, Styles; Swift (Price 61), Mowatt (Diakite 46); Fellows, Diangana (Racic 66), Johnston (Grant 61); Wallace (Cole 61).
Portsmouth: Schmid, Ogilvie (Williams 69′), Towler, Pack, Swanson (Lang 69′), Dozzell, Hayden (Potts 58′), Ritchie (Murphy 69′), Saydee, Devilin, Bishop