West Brom legend reveals his favourite scoreline

It is the best backline that I believe we have seen at Albion for a good couple of years.

They have been brilliant so far and it is so clear to see they all work together and for each other.

Before the game I was chatting in the Richardson Suite and they were calling for predictions, “3-1” and “3-0” – I said I don’t care as long as we score one and have another clean sheet!

They’ve all been so solid. Look at Torbjorn Heggem playing at left-back. The great thing too, as I’ve written before, is that we have players that are as good as those they are replacing.

It was only 1-0 but we did hit the post three times and could have been three or four up, but Plymouth missed a couple of chances too, so credit Alex Palmer for one of those saves. To win 1-0 is worth just as much to us across a season, so I was delighted with it. Plymouth looked a good side, Wayne Rooney has them playing some decent stuff. But if one of our efforts off the post had gone in it would have changed the whole game.

After we took Josh Maja off and made a few of our subs we didn’t have anything up front in terms of natural strikers. We miss the other elements of his game when he goes off. How he can hold the ball up off defenders and link with his team-mates. People don’t realise how much work he does. Credit to him from coming back from such a difficult season to start so well. Having a striker scoring regularly will be the best thing for us.

Daryl Dike is a month or so away from being in contention and to have him balance the load with Maja, to come on after 60 or 70 minutes, will be great. Uros Racic made his debut in midfield and I thought he did ever so well. His first start for us and I thought he can be really pleased with his performance. We’ve got to keep going. It’s about that consistency. Teams often go on runs of form in this league, runs without winning and losing, things can quickly change. If we can maintain this level of performance then we will be alright. We have had a good head start on some rivals. But still we know points margin can be turned around quickly with a sticky run of form as other teams win.

Before the season started the general view was that it would be great if we could finish in the top six places again and seal a play-off spot. Now you hear from supporters as they are mentioning staying top! That’s great, but we’ve got to keep going to stay there. We need to not get too high or carried away and have to keep going.

Carlos Corberan takes us to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday. The dramatically improved away form has already seen us almost win as many away games as last season. That just shows you the character in the team.

Picking up points away from home, as well as winning your home games, is very, very important.

The games we have coming up, Wednesday, Middlesbrough and Millwall in the next week are difficult ones and have a feeling they could go either way.

I’d like to see us keep up the performance levels in the games. It will be interesting to see how we get on having a Tuesday night league game for the first time and three games in a week. I hope the squad depth comes in, and if changes don’t work then hopefully we can put others back in.

If we can win the two home games and draw away, as a minimum, to head into the break that would be fantastic.