Painfully clear area West Brom must target improvement after break

But, as always, there are areas to work on.

Anybody who knows Morrison however well knows the standards he sets in everyday life are extraordinarily high.

You do not have the career he has had otherwise. But, even so, he is a man who will not accept anything less than 100 per cent be it in training, meetings, whatever.

This is a head coach whose attention to detail and ‘getting it right’ stretched to moving me into the ‘right place’ in a recent press conference when I happened to sit on the other side of the room.

As a result, the wastefulness from set-pieces so far this season will really rankle the Baggies head coach. Morrison hasn’t hidden it.

Albion have got plenty right so far in the 40-year-old’s debut full season at the helm, but dead ball situations is an area they have got it wrong.

Corners and set-pieces have not been good enough.

Supporters know it and Morrison will feel and be more aware of the frustration than anybody.

Morrison has referenced it after several games - even wins. After Molineux last Sunday’s gloom, it was “set-plays again not good enough.”

One goal has come via a set-piece this season. Just four Championship clubs have not registered from that method.

An expected goal (xG) figure for set-pieces - rating the quality of chances created - is at 1.8 from eight games. Just four clubs have a poorer output.

In centre-back duo Nat Phillips and George Campbell and midfielder Ousmane Diakite, Albion have three man mountains playing every game and attacking every set-piece.

Aune Heggebo, too, is a physical presence when not in his current slump.

It is not unrealistic to suggest the trio should be targeting around five goals a season from such situations. It should not necessarily be the reliance of Jonas Olsson, Gareth McAuley or Craig Dawson days. But support is needed from set-pieces.

Former captain Alex Mowatt was a set-piece regular but left for Derby in August. But in Isaac Price and Callum Styles the Baggies have classy technicians with good delivery.

It is not as though these areas aren’t forensically worked on or planned for. Albion have been varied in quickly-taken, short set-pieces this season, as well as delivering into the box.

Both have struggled. Some of the former have worked decent positions but the crosses are poor. Some break down with crossed wires.

And far too often a direct delivery is dealt with by the first man - see Molineux on Sunday. A common sight, too, this season, is a Styles cross floating into the arms of a goalkeeper.

It has the potential to be very profitable given the personal, and has to be an area Morrison and his coaching staff, Matt Gill and Gavin Strachan, will be working to improve during this break.