Adrian Chiles wants something different as Corberan demand made at West Brom
West Brom are continually being undone in matches due to their “sluggish” early second-half displays, Adrian Chiles has said.
Speaking on The Liquidator podcast (1 December), Chiles said the Baggies’ 1-1 draw with Preston North End – their ninth stalemate in 10 games – came due to their passive start to the second period.
Urging Carlos Corberan to change things up at the break to ensure Albion hold onto their leads, Chiles bemoaned a seemingly different style of play employed whenever his side are 1-0 up.
He said: “Whatever we’re doing at half-time – we need to start trying to do something different, because we do seem to be coming out just sluggish.
“It was that 10-15 minute spell at the beginning of the second half, I don’t know what we going on.
“We just seem to have completely lost the knack, and lost sight of just attacking the ball – it seemed to me that we were more direct in the first half.”
Adrian Chiles spot on with West Brom second-half verdict
An unbeaten run of 10 games in a league as unpredictable and competitive as the Championship is nothing to be sniffed at, but the nature of that run has made the Baggies more predictable than most.
Winning just once in their last 12 in between those nine draws – including six stalemates on the bounce – has seen Albion lose ground in the promotion race, and they now sit two points outside the play-offs.
Dropping from the very top of the tree at the start of their strange run, it’s clear that Corberan’s side do need to rediscover exactly what made them tick at the beginning of the campaign.
An unbeaten run yielding just 12 points means the Baggies have won fewer in their last 12 games than they did in their first five, giving the rest of the Championship a blueprint of how to keep them at bay.
Still firmly in the promotion race with Corberan under pressure to deliver after last season’s play-off run, Albion fans will be glad they’ve still got 28 games left to turn things around.
In other West Brom news, one of Albion’s loanees’ long-term future at his parent club seems to have already been decided.
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