Carlos Corberan may have found his best West Brom line-up

Does Carlos Corberan know his best XI?

No one really knew the answer to it, but there was a big argument to say he probably didn't prior to the win over Hull.

Back at the end of the transfer window, Albion were in a position where they had more depth in their squad and had made some shrewd and exciting signings towards the end of August.

Those players, who would be staking a claim for regular starting places, arrived at a time when Albion were on a superb run at the beginning of the campaign.

In the end it turned into five wins from six and they were leading the Championship pack, while still having big names and new signings sat on the substitutes bench.

Corberan went with the same line-up in near enough all of those games, which was almost a club record before Jayson Molumby was forced out with injury.

From then, over the last eight games and during a time where Albion couldn't buy a win, Corberan has tinkered with things but alongside that has been forced to change.

He had conundrums in a number of areas of the field. In recent weeks it has been defensive headaches that have been thrust upon him due to injuries suffered by Paddy McNair, Kyle Bartley and Semi Ajayi.

Then he had a question to answer in the centre of the park. Molumby and Alex Mowatt struck up such a good partnership that no one has really mentioned  they lost one of their best players in that position back in the summer.

Then Molumby gets injured and Uros Racic comes in. Who now represents the best midfield two?

The biggest quandary has arguably been out wide. Karlan Grant has performed in a way that no one, maybe even Corberan, expected him to do, and has made the left side slot his own.

But Mikey Johnston had come in for £3m, where will he fit in? He is another who has been in and out and struggled for rhythm.

Then the ten role has developed into a big headache, with John Swift and Grady Diangana alternating in the position, but not really showing why they should remain in the side.

It has been chalk and cheese from the opening six games, to the following eight, but has Corberan now finally nailed down his best side?

At Hull, he managed to get Grant, Johnston and Tom Fellows into the starting XI and they were dangerous, certainly in the first period. And you have to say that on paper and on form, they are the best four attackers to be playing in behind Josh Maja, who at the moment picks himself.

Further back, Albion have gone back to the Mowatt and Molumby combination that served them so well early on.

Then at the back, the back four in recent weeks is kind of made up from what is left, but they are performing that well and look so defensively solid that it is arguably the best backline he has at his disposal.

It is hard to see how Ajayi and maybe even Bartley dislodges certainly Torbjorn Heggem and arguably Mason Holgate too. Bartley will have a strong case, having been essentially Corberan's man when he is fit.

But it seems that what he is going with now is as strong as they have got.

So in a way, by being forced and a couple of different choices, Corberan has maybe not stumbled onto, but now found what could well be his best line-up.

If he can stick with this in the way he stuck with his previous line-up earlier in the season, it may make the eight game winless streak a distant memory and bring a run of results akin to that blistering start.