00:00Baggies fans, welcome to expressandstart.com, my name is Jonny Drury, I'm here with Albion
00:12correspondent Lewis Cox. Me, Jonny and the mowers. Me, Coxie and the mowers, yeah. And
00:17after Albion have won by one goal to nil against QPR, it doesn't tell the full story. There
00:21were 10 man baggies with an unbelievable effort in the second half, digging in, bit of a ten
00:25at job at times, Coxie. Ten at job. Got over the line. The headline. It could be the headline,
00:30yeah. A one nil victory for Albion thanks to Adam Armstrong. Penalty, but it could have
00:37been, or could be, a very big day in the play-off race. All the results went for Albion, they
00:41dug in, picked up a massive three points here, back-to-back home wins. All positive. Huge,
00:47yeah, yeah, I mean the five clubs below Albion in the championship drop points, either today
00:51or last night. Massive. So, yeah, we were kind of saying it in the second half as the
00:55results were coming in, weren't we, towards the end of the game, and Tony Mowbray in there
00:59in his press conference has just gone with it, hasn't he? He's an absolutely huge win.
01:03Perfectly in effort. Yeah, he said a lot of good stuff, really, that I don't want to give
01:08it all away on this video, we've got things to write, but he almost called Burnley a bit
01:13of a free hit on Tuesday night, didn't he? Quite big words to say, you know, for an Albion
01:17manager, and I don't think he really means free hit, but what he means is, look, today
01:21was huge, next Saturday here against Hull is huge, we need to win these home games,
01:26as Albion have been doing. And look, I think a point would be a very good result up at
01:31Burnley, wouldn't they? Burnley don't concede goals, they don't score many, but they don't
01:34concede many. However, Albion tiles will be up after today, won't they, because we were
01:39encouraged and infused at Ellum Road, sorry, there was a fly there, I'm not just waving
01:43my arms around. Infused at Ellum Road last weekend for a bit of a different reason, today
01:48you said Tinhap, back to the wall, grit, resilience, stomach for the fight, I think,
01:53your rivals are drop points, Albion could have in that second half, you know, the odds
01:57were against him, really, with the Mandan, the Darnell Furlong, controversial red card,
02:02really, on the stroke of halftime, I don't think Tony Mowgli agrees with it, well, he
02:05doesn't. And Albion have got over the line that first half penalty, enough, and a huge
02:11win. Yeah, massive, massive victory. Coxey, coming to the game today, it was kind of,
02:17you know, we always walk past the people who work here, what's the score going to be, and
02:21you know, I'm ultra positive about it. We're always wrong. I had a bit of a bad feeling
02:24about it, just because there's been a bit of lack of consistency, you know, Albion have
02:28had a positive result and a positive performance, and sometimes failed to back it up, and that's
02:33massive today as well, back-to-back home wins, four unbeaten, you know, there is, you know,
02:39four wins in five here, you know, Mowgli's just sitting there, he, journalists look at stats
02:43kind of more than he does on that type of thing, but just to back it up now, just to get a little
02:49bit of momentum going, I've just written now, you know, we've seen a bit of consistency in
02:53Mowgli's selections now, only one change today, compared to, you know, to four in recent weeks
02:57when he's getting used to his players, but just seeing a bit of consistency, you know,
03:01if we can get that snowballing, it may just be hitting at the right time. Yeah, yeah, I think
03:07what's helped with those changes is, look, they've been sadly to sadly games, I mean, they've had
03:10time on the training pitch, and I think we've seen that, by the way, in these games, in these
03:13performances, albeit, like, the red card today to Verlag's changed everything today, hasn't it,
03:18it's changed the game plan, it's changed the second half, it had to become a low block,
03:21and they did it excellently, your Bartley, Higgins, Styles, not to mention Holgate as well,
03:24to be fair, relentless, and for Molumbi's running, for Iserpreis's running, wow, but yeah, I think
03:30you've got, you know, you make a point there, Johnny, the first few Mowgli games, what were
03:34we seeing, six changes to the side, five, four, it couldn't and wouldn't continue that, it was
03:40just Mowgli getting a feel of what he's inherited, certain type of game today, certainly a certain
03:45type of second half, Tuesday will be different, we know that, and yeah, that momentum is the all
03:52important word, isn't it, now this is a three-game week, brings different challenges, tests the squad,
03:56there are more three-game weeks to come, aren't there, we go to Bristol City, a big rival on a
04:00Tuesday night, isn't it, Bristol, obviously the Easter games are to come, the Friday-Monday, so
04:05look, there are still tests ahead and opportunities ahead for this squad, I don't think we've now
04:10decided on a 12-man squad, you know, Swift one week, Fellowes another week, as it has been the
04:17last two, I think there are still big games ahead for you, Swifts, for you, Grady Lagarde, as he
04:21didn't get on today, he seems to have got the kind of base of his best team, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's
04:26got to be feeling those players a little bit, hasn't he, and you will hope that Darnell Furlong
04:29is available to be called on on Tuesday night and not suspended, let's just talk about that,
04:34you know, he's referencing there and possibly appealing it, I've watched it back, I don't think
04:38there's any intent there, but the kind of, the elbow is kind of high, so I'm kind of split over
04:44whether Albion win that appeal or not, it sounds very much like they're going to go for it, yeah,
04:48he said to me they would, yeah, if they don't win it, I think that adds a game on as well,
04:53a little bit of a risk, perhaps it does, yeah, but they, you know, they feel quite confident,
04:57and if they do, if they do win that appeal, that's huge, because he has, you know, at times he's
05:02been caught out of the season, but I think defensively and going forward, I saw the first
05:07half today, you know, he's an important player, he's a key regular, you know, familiarity,
05:12consistency, Tony Moby, he had a lot to say about it, didn't he, but in a nutshell, it happened
05:17right in front of him, he said, look, it was just a 50-50 shoulder, I'm trying off the stand there,
05:23so I could be over the Alpha's lane boundary, and the QPR lad, Saito, has basically ducked a bit to
05:29get out of the way of it, and it's meant that the shoulder really, or the arm has gone into his face
05:35a bit, and it's not an intentional flung elbow, that is the opinion of Tony Moby, who was right
05:40there, and he was quite strong to me, saying we will appeal it, I expect we will appeal it, so
05:44that's interesting, how quick does that go through, does it happen in time for Tuesday night,
05:49one would hopefully, what I would say is, Holgate had a good second half, I thought,
05:52got an early booking, as did Bartley in that second half, and they both got through it,
05:55against some tricky customers, that Saito was a bit of a nightmare, another Korean player on the
06:00opposite flank, on loan from Spurs was tricky, Ilja's chair, you know, they're a real test QPR,
06:05they're just missing a focal point today, they've got Stryker's injured, but hopefully the appeal
06:09comes through, you're right to question the frivolous thing, I don't think each failed
06:15appeal results in an extra game, it's just if you're taking the peak, for want of a better word,
06:19we're from something that's never going to win an appeal, but we're hoping to have Furlong
06:25available, I think there was no qualms for the penalty he won today, that Armstrong converted
06:29in the first half, we saw a trip on Malumby, didn't we, I think, Jack Colbeck, good work from
06:33Tom Fellows for that, he sort of burst away down the right, didn't he, low ball in was spot on,
06:39so shout out for Fellows, because he's had a tough time of it hasn't he, he fell out the side for
06:43the lead, came back in and part of that match winning assist today for the only goal, it was
06:49massive, massive win for Albion in the race for first, there's going to be a lot more twists
06:54and turns, hopefully on Tuesday night, keep it going apparently, very, very, very quickly today,
07:02you know, you've got, we talked about rivals dropping points, I looked at the table after the
07:06game actually, and you've got Middlesbrough, who we've sort of thought was a big threat all season
07:10in night, now five points behind Albion then, five points isn't a lot, don't get me wrong,
07:14nothing's nowhere anywhere near decided, but it just feels like a little bit of
07:18grieving, doesn't it, you know, Albion have got to lose games at a regular rate for rivals to win,
07:24and look, look, yeah, just the consistency, what it is, you know, you wrote it this week, didn't
07:28you, consistency is the word of the season, and Albion haven't really had it, so can they
07:33finally get some at the right time, massive if they can, continue that at Burnley on Tuesday,
07:38will be there, but for now, final score here at the Hall of Famers, Albion 1 QPR 0,
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