WBA Reaction: Baggies robbed

Last updated : 30 November 2008 By Paul Farrington
Here is the reaction of the two managers.

Steve Bruce

It has been a decent week in terms of results and just what we needed really.

We had a poor October, not the way we played, but we didn't pick up the points and we've done today what Middlesbrough come and did to us three or four weeks ago, you know.

West Brom can rightly feel as if they've been mugged but some fantastic goalkeeping and we stuck at it and in the end got a break.

I think that's the turning point of the game and the goalkeeper, if we buy him a drink tonight, then he deserves it because he was outstanding.

For people watching and people who work with him every day he proves what an outstanding keeper he is - he has pulled off two, three great saves which ultimately won us the match. He is, unquestionably for me, the best goalkeeper in this country.

He's [Henri Camara] got two in two and he proved to people that in and around the box he's still got what a striker does, he hasn't really contributed too much to the game but he's got himself another goal.

But it is quite easy to go five the other way too - we are not going to get carried away.

We have had a good week - we've won back-to-back games for the first time in a year since I've been here so we have got ourselves in a decent position, we must now kick on.

Tony Mowbray

I think they are a good side, they have got some good players, very powerful side, big strong physical team. I have seen them twice over the last few weeks and they are a good side.

But I thought that we came here today and created lots of chances, the keeper made a few good saves.

We need a bit more clinical finishing - the game maybe could have been over and once they got the one back it was almost inevitable the way it's been going for us that we were going to lose a late goal.

But there you go, that's football, we have got to keep going, there was plenty of positives again today and we live for next week.

I don't need to keep defending my team - I think we are a good football team in this league. I think we create plenty of chances, we just are probably not clinical enough.

Yet Ishmael (Miller) is finding a bit of confidence and belief, he's scored three in the last half a dozen games or something and he will get his fair share as the season goes on.

But chances fell for other players today and we weren't clinical enough and it is very disappointing now - it is a pretty desperate dressing room in there at the moment to put so much into a game and come away with nothing.

We have got to keep going, stick together, keep the high principles, the high ethics that we work on and preach every day in training and get on with it and believe that things will turn for us.

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