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West Brom and their beleaguered manager Alan Pardew are heading in a taxi to the Championship after another disastrous day at the office.

Defeat at home to the team who started the day in 17th place leaves Albion rock bottom of the Premier League and seven points from safety with only 10 games remaining.

Pardew has overseen just one victory in 14 games since taking charge in December and West Brom have only one League win since August.

Somehow they will have to produce a minimum of five wins from their remaining games to have any chance of survival.

Having sacked his chairman and chief executive after the last Premier League game, West Brom’s Chinese owner Guochuan Lai will have to decide whether Pardew can turn it around, although the manager was trying to remain defiant about his and his side’s prospects.

“I hope I get the chance to see this through, but obviously that decision is not with me,” he admitted.

“This team has won three games out of 37 and that says everything. We have to try to find a way of somehow winning a game.”

Two goals in nine minutes pushed the Baggies closer to relegation. The first was terrible from a defensive point of view as Collin Quaner was allowed to look up and find van la Parra with not a single home player making a challenge and the Dutchman placed his shot low past Foster.

Then when Grzegorz Krychowiak sloppily gave the ball away in midfield.

It was worked to Pritchard and his clever reverse pass released Mounie, who broke the offside trap and gave the goalkeeper no chance.

The deficit was halved shortly after when substitute Chris Brunt’s in-swinging corner was headed home by Craig Dawson.

Huddersfield’s win moved them from 17th to 14th in the congested bottom half and manager David Wagner knew the importance of their first back-to-back League wins since August.

He said: “This was a massive result and a fantastic afternoon for us.”