West Brom must Bag a striker.

West Brom must Bag a striker

For any West Brom fan reading this blog, remind yourself of these words at the end of the season: “West Brom should NOT go down.”

Quite simply, The Baggies are not among the three worst footballing sides in The Premier League, not on the evidence of their showing against Everton last week, and not on their showing against Bolton at The Reebok.

In both games there was one inescapable factor – Tony Mowbray’s men created no end of quality chances, but failed to take them.
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If this blog happens to be reflected upon with broken hearts at the end of the season, it will be because of one thing: The lack of a prolific striker.

The Baggies were clearly the better team at Bolton, and in Kim Do-heon, James Morrison, Robert Koren and Borja Valero, they have players who will create chances week in-week out.

Indeed, they produced one mesmeric piece of football in the first half at Bolton that any Brazilian XI would have been proud to put on DVD.

Building upon the solid foundation of Gianni Zuiverloon, Abdoulaye Meite, Leon Barnett and Paul Robinson, West Brom’s counter-attacking play was superb.

Zuiverloon is already proving a fine acquisition, sealing up a hole the size of Cristiano Ronaldo's ego on the right hand side that was so cruelly exposed on the opening day by Arsenal.

Defence is one thing, but when you’re set for a season at the bottom, goals that turn one point into three (as should have happened today) are invaluable.

The statistics will tell you Bolton registered more shots, but it was West Brom who hit the underside of the bar, it was West Brom who created two one-on-one situations, and it was West Brom who simply should have won.

The reason they didn’t was, unfortunately, in large part down to Ishmael Miller – a powerful rock of a man who performed admirably on the opening day against Arsenal.

He didn’t score at the Emirates though, and he is yet to do so this season. At Bolton he had a hat-trick of golden chances, and missed them all.

As a second striker Miller is a real force. Just ask Kevin Phillips, who would undoubtedly attribute a great share of his 24 goals to the big man last season.

Mowbray needs to find somebody to replace those goals. The Baggies’ football deserves a better end product, and it deserves to belong in The Premier League.
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