West Brom attackers slammed by Sam Parkin after Swansea defeat
West Brom suffered yet another defeat on Saturday as they threw away a 2-1 lead to lose at home to Swansea City in the 90th minute.
Jake Livermore brought the Baggies level just after the break before Grady Diangana put them ahead but Karlan Grant missed a late penalty to win the game and Michael Obafemi tucked home the winner.
ITV pundit Sam Parkin has slammed the Albion attackers for their sloppy finishing but believes that Steve Bruce is still likely to be backed by the club’s hierarchy.
“My gut, at the moment, says yes (Bruce will stay),” Parkin said. “But I suppose some of that boils down to how vociferous the support is going to be and how toxic it gets at some home games.
“The statistics, and I’m going to sound like a broken record here, back up that they’re squandering a lot of chances while still creating a lot.
“I feel that the front players, maybe Jed Wallace apart, have not really stood up to the plate and it’s two-fold because defensively, individual errors have cost them.”
Time’s up
Bruce has had plenty of time, both this season and last, to prove that he can lead this West Brom squad to a competitive place in the Championship and aim for promotion but he has not delivered.
When the defence is poor, the attackers score which often leads to high-scoring draws or vice-versa occurs and it ends goalless.
There was only the thumping of Hull City that made anybody think Bruce was the man for the job and since then, it has been very disappointing and the time has come for a change.
21st position in the Championship is a complete farce for a club the size of the Albion who should be teetering on the edge of the first and second tiers, not the second and third.
He can’t use his summer transfer window as an excuse having picked up most of his primary targets for very cheap or even free deals early on.
In other West Brom news, Ally Robertson only wanted one thing from yesterday’s game, and he didn’t even get that.