Ally Robertson: Tense, tough but a win is a win and West Brom needed it!

But the minute we made the changes, it seemed to let them come into the game all of a sudden.

I think Carlos Corberan thought we were in a position to rest a couple of players, Okay Yokuslu being one, at 3-0 up. They came into the game in midfield thereafter.

As for the set-pieces, corners tore us apart at the end. Their four big lads were attacking those corners around about the penalty spot unmarked. They scored directly from one, another led to a goal and they almost scored more from them!

We had four players lined up on the six-yard box, but the ball wasn’t coming there. It was going further out, I couldn’t work out why a couple of our lads couldn’t push out. It needed a leader on the park to organise that.

A quick word for the new lengthy stoppage time that has been introduced as law to our game, I think it’s abysmal. If it’s for genuine time-wasting there should be a booking and add on the minutes. But a game to me should be 90 minutes and time for whoever’s been injured. When I saw our team at 2pm I wondered if we were playing away from home – It looked like it might have been a 5-4-1 formation! We missed a natural striker with Brandon Thomas-Asante injured.

Matt Phillips was running everywhere for us in that role up front to his credit, they were uncomfortable with dealing with him. He ran himself into the ground and I saw a midfield that was working hard to cover each other. We looked solid there.

At the back I thought we all looked like we knew what each other was doing, which was encouraging after the first two away games. If one defender didn’t close down, somebody else would. It was a good unit, there was no attackers running behind us.

I was pleasantly surprised after hearing how the first two games went, I’d been told we’d been all over the place away from home.

I’m optimistic because most of that side for the first 70 minutes will be the team we play.

It was a great start for the fans in our first home game.

OK, the last 10 minutes or so were not great, but it was encouraging to see what the team showed for the most part.

I don’t think anybody quite knew what to expect. The supporters were mixed beforehand, some thought we’d win three or four, some thought we might scrape and it others said we’d be lucky not to lose.

Wins and playing well get the fans behind you and they get confidence between the lads.

We have a hard game ahead of us at Leeds on Friday, but if we can go and repeat our first 70 minutes then we won’t be far away, I believe.

If we go to Elland Road under the lights and can avoid a defeat that’d be great. If we can go there and win at Carlos’ old team that would be absolutely brilliant.

It will go down to who can defend better as a unit on the night and who will take their chance.