'Excellent', 'Superb' - Some West Brom fans rave about 30-year-old in 1-0 win v Hull

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09 Nov 2019, 11:50 am

Hal Robson-Kanu earned just his second league start of the season on Saturday when West Brom won 1-0 away against Hull City.

The 30-year-old had scored three goals off the bench in his last four appearances before the trip to the KCOM Stadium and although he did not get on the scoresheet, a lot of supporters were still impressed by the forward's display.

According to stats by WhoScored, Robson-Kanu completed 88 per cent of his passes and out of the starters for West Brom, only Romaine Sawyers ended the game with a higher pass accuracy.

The ex-Reading striker also won four aerial duels - only Kyle Bartley won more in the match - and even chipped in defensively by making one tackle and one clearance.

It was a solid outing by Robson-Kanu despite worries that he can only make an impact on matches when he comes off the bench in the second half and lot of Albion fans were straight onto Twitter after the match to sing praises of the Welshman.

Here is a selection of their tweets:

HRK run his socks off and had a good game without much service and retains place for me. Although surprised we didn't see zahore earlier as Hal was on fumes last 15 #WBA
— Andrew Beech 𓅪 (@beechyboy90) November 9, 2019

HRK and Jake superb today.. Pereira also .. tbf couldn’t fault any of them #wba
— Lee Armstrong 𓅪 (@UncleSock) November 9, 2019

I have been very critical of HRK .....but today he was excellent. Long may it continue. #wba @WBA
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) November 9, 2019

Huge result and a good performance again. Rode our luck a couple of times but on the whole pretty comfortable. Excellent display from HRK up top in particular
— Ashley Burtoft (@AshBurty) November 9, 2019

Superb performance Robson Kanu Livermore Bartley Townsend My picks they were phenomenal but Sawyers and Livermore Will be a miss next game but time for the likes of Krovinovic Brunt Harper to step up and most likely the first appearance of Willock on the bench #wba
— Jon Simonian (@_Simonian) November 9, 2019

In other West Brom news, Jimmy Shan has tipped this 28-year-old Albion player to have a successful career in management.

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