00:00Thank you fans, welcome to expressionstar.com, welcome to the Hawthorns, welcome to another
00:12day when Albion have not scored at home. It is now two goals in, I don't know how many
00:17games, six games on home soil and another frustrating afternoon today. Coxy against
00:23Millwall last time out here, they didn't really have any chances today, they had enough to
00:26probably win about five games, so this video probably could be quite short. Battered Cardiff
00:33could not score. So frustrating isn't it Jonny, I feel for the home punters really, not a
00:41good record here is it at all, that's an understatement, it has to change. I'm one of the joint lowest
00:46home scorers in the top four divisions with Palace in the Prem, played less games and
00:52then Tranmere in League 2. It's a damning statistic, obviously it's a bit broad and
00:58doesn't necessarily tell a whole story does it of games and moments like today, however
01:03the bottom line is two goals scored it. What I would say is in those six games one goal
01:09conceded it. We joked didn't we when we were in there. Not quite getting your money's worth
01:14at the Hawthorns at the moment. No, three goals in six games. However, obviously need
01:19to make clear that one goal against in six, it is a very good stat. You can't make no
01:24arguments about that as it is good or better than the two goals scored isn't it and I think
01:29Corbijn said in his press conference there, something obviously he's very keen to cling
01:34to and I'm sure the players as well. Seven clean sheets in 12 league games now, which
01:39I would say goes a long way to suggest why I'll be in a fifth still in the table and
01:43I don't want to mention the table too much because it is important and it isn't. We always
01:48talk about the table in the good times and when there's wins don't we, but it is early
01:53to be sort of worried too much and distracted about the table. I think more so we need to
01:58look at what's happening in each game and four draws in a row now isn't it in those
02:04six winless games. That sequence started here in that Millwall game and we just very, very,
02:10very quickly think back to that. That was having created nothing that day to day, nothing.
02:14The magic chance early, that was it. Since we had Oxford, should have won. Didn't create
02:18too much but should have won obviously last minute. Blackburn I thought in midweek against
02:22the good side was a step up, created a bit more, should have taken one of their chances.
02:26Today, I mean how many chances really? It should have been at least two or three by
02:30half time shouldn't it?
02:31Yeah and I've been outside and I've heard, not the people I spoke to but you hear sort
02:35of shouts against Corbijn and there was quite a bit of that after Blackburn but today I
02:39think he's alluded to it in his press conference. He can set his team up any way he likes but
02:44when he watches them batter aside like that, he expects them to have the quality to go
02:50and win the game and they did. It's kind of today's on the forward players.
02:54Just saw Robert Earnshaw there haven't we?
02:56We have yeah.
02:57He'd have put one away I think.
02:58He would have done.
02:59I've seen a little front flip.
03:00Front two of Robert Earnshaw and John Homer is walking outside there, that would be interesting.
03:04Yeah, you're right. I mean John Swift was one of three players to come into the side
03:11today and I thought he did okay. I thought he had a decent game but he had two big chances
03:17in the first half alone, as did Darnell Furlong. Alright, look we can't be relying on a right
03:21back to score but he does chip in with goals. Should have scored, maybe in midweek as well
03:24shouldn't he?
03:25Yeah.
03:26Maggia, Corbijn spoke quite well of him at the end there didn't he? You'll be able to
03:31read it at some point in the coming days online but he used the word terrible to describe
03:35the sort of minutes and reliance on Maggia and I think, I don't think that's a language
03:39barrier thing, I think it's almost borderline he's had to play a hell of a lot, borderline
03:44too much really Maggia and obviously hasn't scored for a long time, I think five games
03:49after the brilliant streak he had to start the season and, look we've said this before
03:53haven't we, but there cannot be an over-reliance or a reliance on Maggia. On Fellows to create
03:59Fellows didn't even start today, came on late on but Maggia, you know I think the moment
04:03in the 90th minute where Maggia hits a goal in front of Smeric, straight at Anak who saves
04:09it on the line, I think it sort of sums up and typifies the whole thing really and that
04:13would have gone in in the first six weeks of the season wouldn't it?
04:16Of course it would have.
04:17But look, Albin, as you said at the top, did enough to win the six games, they haven't
04:23won today didn't they and I think look, I'm not trying to gloss over this or go too rosy,
04:28Cardiff were poor and they're in a good period aren't they Cardiff, I think that's five unbeaten
04:34as Mr. Homan appears in the background again, five unbeaten I think for Cardiff now since
04:39they changed manager, three wins, two draws, their caretaker boss has clearly sorted them
04:44out, addressed them but to me they were poor today, they should have conceded, on another
04:49day they'd have conceded three first half goals wouldn't they?
04:52But equally, they could have scored as well, they could have at bad moments, it could have
04:57been a lot worse today for Albin, could have really been bitten on the backside but it's
05:03frustration again, hopefully it will, if you create this many chances, hopefully it will
05:08turn.
05:09Very quickly, I think Corbijn's overall point there and I'll write it in a second for you
05:14to read but was look, keep going and don't let the confidence be dented by what isn't
05:21happening because a lot that is happening is still okay, I think in a nutshell is where
05:26he is with message to his players and even supporters so there is that but obviously
05:32now six games need to nip this in the bud very quickly, it gets no easier does it with
05:36Luton and Burnley up next and obviously there are issues in case you forget Jonny, just
05:40quickly in fitness as well aren't there?
05:43Yes, injury issues which you can read all about on expressandstart.com, frustration
05:47again at the Hawthorns, hopefully it will turn, feels like one of them, when it hits
05:51someone's backside the floodgates will open, hopefully that's at Kenilworth Road on Friday
05:56Fana score here at the Hawthorns, Albion nil, Cardiff nil, all the rest of your reaction
06:02you know where to go expressandstart.com
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