West Bromwich Albion manager, Sam Allardyce, believes the team cannot concede easy goals if they want to stay up. The Baggies endured a poor 3-0 home defeat to rivals Aston Villa during the first match of Allardyce’s time at the club. Matters were not helped by Jake Livermore getting a red card early in the game. “Yes I am upset – I couldn’t be anything else other than upset,” Allardcye told reporters when asked about Livermore’s red. “When I arrived one of the first things I said to the players was ‘lads one thing we can’t have is any more sendings off.’ “So it really is very disappointing. “They had a couple before I arrived. I’ve done my homework. That can’t happen again if we want to get out of trouble. “And we have got to stop letting in easy goals – which Villa’s first one was. It wa...
Some West Bromwich Albion fans have taken to Twitter to give their reaction to the performance of Jake Livermore against Leicester City this afternoon. Livermore was in action for West Brom in their Premier League game against Leicester at The Hawthorns on Sunday afternoon. The 30-year-old central midfielder started the match and played for the entire 90 minutes, as Slaven Bilic’s side lost 3-0. According to WhoScored, the Englishman played one key pass, had a pass accuracy of 74.1%, took 34 touches, and made two tackles, one interception and two clearances Some West Brom fans were not impressed with the display produced by Livermore and have criticised him on Twitter. Below are some of the best comments: Been saying it all pre season but some fans think they are both Prem quality — Hunty ...