00:00Buggies fans, welcome to ExpressingStar.com, my name is Jonny Treer, I'm here at the Bet365
00:12Stadium alongside Luke Powell standing in for Coxy today as he's off, well he is actually
00:17back now, he was at home with his feet up watching the game today, but Alvin have won
00:20three wins out of four at the start of the league campaign, Ryan Mason's Buggies are
00:26certainly firing a one goal victory at Stoke today, ending there, perfect winning start
00:31to the season, that Phillips' goal early on was enough, it could have been more, but Luke,
00:36how impressed were you with Albion today, headed, kicked, tackled everything, rapid on the break,
00:44looked really dangerous, you know, what have you made of Albion? Sometimes it doesn't matter
00:49how you win, they won, I thought they were fantastic, you know, they minimised the Stoke
00:54threat, that's a Stoke team that have scored goals so far in this campaign, you know,
00:58they scored three in their first two matches, they beat Southampton away, and they really
01:02nullified that threat, I saw the Thomas on the left side, he's been fantastic for Stoke
01:07so far at the start of the season, but George Campbell, he was incredible at ride back, just
01:13stopped everything coming his way, Matt Phillips got the goal, headed everything again, everyone
01:17just keeps talking about, he heads everything away, he was fantastic, and Mecca on his debut,
01:23a perfect start, just looked so comfortable at the back, slotted in with ease, and at the
01:29end when Stoke were going for it, making a couple of interceptions to see it away, fantastic,
01:33and I'm sure, as he is, Ryan Mason absolutely delighted with his start, and defensively how
01:38they were, but yeah, going forward as well, could have been more, a couple of chances, you
01:42know, Egebo at the back post, nearly converting from a low cross, I thought in the midfield,
01:47they dominated, and yeah, superb.
01:49Yeah, it was a superb victory, I do apologise, just as we come through this video, we started
01:53cutting the edge of the pitch here at about 3-6-5, so we will try and raise our voices,
01:57like you said, Mecca and Phillips are kind of rightly grabbing headlines, you know, Albion
02:02lost 2-1 Hegel for 9 million, we all had a bit of a meltdown for what's going on at the
02:06back, Kyle Bartley retired, but they just defensively looked so, so solid today, you know, they had
02:13a lot of chances on the break, you know, a lot of analysis and reaction to come on that,
02:17but they looked, Stoke hit the post from an Albion mistake, apart from that, they didn't
02:21look like a story.
02:22Not much else, yeah, that was the story of the game really, you were sort of waiting for
02:26Stoke to maybe come alive and have a period in the game where you thought they would put
02:30Albion under a lot of pressure, but every time really they got on the ball and looked to go
02:34forward, it sort of came to London, thought they were fantastic at the back and then going
02:39forwards, yeah, just a great build-up mate, there was some lovely moves between Mowat and
02:43Price, Mowat, I don't know if I've butchered that, but wonderful on the left side, I thought
02:49when Price moved out to the left for the second half, he looked a bit more comfortable, a bit
02:53better maybe, quite good anyway, but yeah, really good.
02:57Yeah, decent performance, you know, to come here to Stoke, who hadn't lost, lots of talking
03:02points to come from it, Ryan Mason, we just spoke to Ryan Mason for about 15 minutes,
03:06he talked about departures, talked about Tom Fellows, you know, talked about various different
03:10things, individual displays today, but Luke, just finally before we wrap up, three wins
03:16from four games in what has been kind of a summer of change for Albion with a, I don't
03:21want to say rookie manager, but a new manager coming in with departures that have happened,
03:25three wins from four games, it's kind of, you know, it's not a perfect start on paper,
03:29but it's as close to a perfect start that Ryan Mason could have wished for.
03:31Absolutely, I think all Albion fans, they're a bit in your hand off for this, like, snap
03:36their hand off, literally, I think Mason would have been delighted if you'd have told him
03:40when he took over that this would be the position they'd be in after four games, I'm sure.
03:44Brilliant start from them going into the first international break, and the only worst thing,
03:49as I just said to Nat Phillips down there, is the international break is probably coming
03:53at the worst time for Albion, you know, how they play at the moment, keep winning, but yeah,
03:58hopefully it all continues after that.
04:00Certainly hope it does international break, before that we've got the transfer deadline day,
04:04head to expressandstar.com for all the news and breaking stories for that,
04:09and also head over there to listen and see to all the reactions today from the Bet365ers,
04:14Albion made it three wins in four games. Final score here in the Pottery, Stokely and Albion 1,
04:20all the rest of your reaction, expressandstar.com.
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