'He was class': West Brom fans praise debutant after win over Plymouth

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West Brom fans give their reaction to Jonny Drury after their side went back to the top of the Championship. Albion hit the post three times in a frustrating first period for Carlos Corberan's side. Plymouth also had chances and started the second half better, before Albion broke the deadlock through Josh Maja. Corberan's side then had to withstand late pressure to grind out the three points.

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00:00It wasn't vintage Albion, but another win, back top of the league. Sum up how you're

00:11feeling, you must be delighted. Three points, played well, tough, hard to beat, didn't give

00:16up, just said to him there we should have won 4 or 5 but they didn't give up. And then

00:19when the pressure came onto us, we had enough of ours to keep the clean sheet as well. Strong

00:23bench, strong bench, haven't had that for 4 or 5 years. And the new players are making

00:28impacts, Eggerman and Blazers there, Ratic did really, really well.

00:32Yeah, definitely, so every single season, whatever age you are, every single season

00:40there would have been games like this where we would have dropped points, we would have

00:43drawn, even lost, we lost to Huddersfield at home around this time last year. So you

00:49can't just expect to turn up and win every single, we know what the Championship is like,

00:53every single game in this league you've got to fight to win. We've done it, we've won

00:58and if you're top of the league and you win, you'll stay top of the league.

01:01Hard work, didn't make our way. They've been good though to be fair, we couldn't get past

01:07their defence, they're a very solid structure.

01:10Should have really killed the game, hit the post three times, should really be tackled

01:16to a point, just seen the game out.

01:18The first half Albion hit the post three times, Plymouth had a lot of pressure, did

01:23you feel Albion were just a little bit under par at times today, compared to recent weeks

01:27and what we've been treated to?

01:29Yeah, there was that drop-off between 50, 60, 70 minutes, but it was a case, even though

01:32the drop-off was there, there was still a threat. They were always going to come with

01:35a counter-attack today, we knew that, should have had more goals, but on other days you

01:39hit the post three times, they get a goal and then we lose the game and I think that's

01:42the difference this season to last year. They're not giving up, they keep going, even in the

01:46last minute there, you've got your man still going and trying to hit a goal and get us

01:49on the break.

01:50A proper centre-forward.

01:51Yeah, there's a difference, and a clean sheet.

01:53Bye, bye!

01:54Another clean sheet, we're building.

01:57Yeah, I feel like we could have made it right more, three points, two points, can't really

02:04complain.

02:05You mentioned the new signings there, Rakic came in today as the one change, how impressed

02:11were you by him, got the assist, he's massive isn't he, he's just such an imposing figure.

02:15You've got to look at Higgum as well, look at Higgum at the back, when he's ushered the

02:21bloke out, he's never going to go round him.

02:24Having some of the balls, right in the first half he was trying to play the balls to the

02:27fellows, he was trying to find the balls to Grant, he stayed just in behind the striker

02:30so he was always going to attack him in midfield or something like that, so I think he'll get

02:34better as well. I mean this is the thing with the squad now, you've lost Malumbo today,

02:37but you've had somebody who can slot straight in and carry on as normal, and this is the

02:41thing with the squad this season.

02:42Yeah, brilliant, yeah, so definitely, but he's tough on Malumbo because Malumbo's done

02:47really well but he's a great problem to have, I'm glad Carlos has got that rather than me.

02:52Six goals now for Josh Madgert this season.

02:56I thought he was blasted, I thought he was good.

02:58He's a very good addition to the side, definitely has a very good squad now, when we do have

03:03the injuries like Malumbo and stuff, yeah I think he's very composed.

03:08Yeah, obviously more composed than Malumbo, I think Malumbo can be a bit erratic at times

03:12but he slows the game down.

03:15And just finally, you mentioned the goals and you mentioned Madger there, do you feel

03:18that for all the running that Sante did last season, he's just sort of lacked scoring a

03:23decent amount of goals, do you think the one difference this year is going to be the goals

03:27that Madger scores?

03:28Yeah, we've missed our goal scorer for a while now, and the other thing is as well, two saves

03:33against McFarland in the first half, could have been a different ball game.

03:37The second half, you're looking in there, what is that now, three clean sheets on the

03:40bounce, four out of six games.

03:44But you're looking over to Madgers on six goals, I mean Sante scored 11 all season last

03:48year, so he's well on his way to being a Sante.

03:50At the end of the day, you signed a Sante for what, £100,000 was it?

03:53Sold him for £2.5 million, it's great isn't it?

03:55It's what you do isn't it?

03:56It's what you do.

03:58Yeah, quite possibly, so six goals in six games, so he's on track for 46 for the season

04:05then at the moment.

04:07He's a player that was here last season, I've seen people say we've improved the squad or

04:12different things, but we had players missing five or six at any point last season.

04:17If we had five or six out now, we'd be finding things a lot tougher, but I think only DK

04:21Malumbi today has been out and he's making a difference and long may it continue, but

04:26yeah, Madger, he's been absolutely flying.

04:29I think we were definitely lacking a proven goal scorer last year, and we needed that

04:35if we wanted to push, especially for top two, because we don't want to be in that 36, we

04:41want to be pushing top two each year.

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