Moore:we’ll get lot better
DARREN MOORE warned the rest of the league the best is yet to come from his West Brom side.
The Baggies roared to the top of the table after edging a five-goal thriller at rock-bottom Preston.
And the mild-mannered manager (below) insists his team will take some catching as they are improving with every game.
“We want to get better and we’re constantly working at that,” he beamed.
“We’re a team in transition. We’re trying to change our style of play and get results in a very, very difficult division.
“There’s more to come and more had to come, together, collectively as a unit and together as a football club.
“We will keep working at that.
“We will savour this result over the next 24 hours and then we focus on the next midweek game and go back to work.”
The result was tough on the home side, who looked to have the measure of the in-form Baggies after surviving an early scare when North End stopper Chris Maxwell spectacularly tipped Kyle Bartley’s closerange header over the crossbar.
Ryan Ledson could even have given Alex Neil’s side the lead – only for his low shot from the edge of the box to cannon back off the post minutes later.
The visitors were put on the road to their fifth victory in six league games when Jay Rodriguez converted Jake Livermore’s inviting cross with a combination of his head and shoulder for his seventh goal of the season just three minutes after the restart.
The home side battled their way back into the game and were level pegging on 71 minutes through a brilliant Andrew Hughes free-kick.
But when you are bottom of the table you rarely get the luck and all Preston’s hard work was undone just two minutes later when Craig Dawson’s cross from the right hit Ben Davies – arguably Preston’s hardest worker – on the head and slowly looped over the helpless Maxwell and into the corner. A third West Brom goal from a Dwight Gayle freekick late on ended any hope for the home side and sparked an exodus from the stands by the Preston supporters, who missed Alan Browne’s header reduce the arrears in stoppage time.
“I will be lying if I said I was not concerned about the table,” said Neil. “We need to pick up points and pick them up quickly.
“Winning is a habit and I think losing is a habit, too.
“All we can do is keep working hard. They are a good bunch and they are working to put it right.
“The lads are brilliant and the position we are in is not down to a lack of effort from them.”