Baggies’ Furlong sees red
WEST Brom will be without Darnell Furlong for tomorrow’s home clash with Hull City, after the defender was shown a straight red card in Saturday’s 3-0 thumping at
Fulham.
Albion suffered their third successive away defeat to lose ground in the promotion race, while Fulham backed up last Sunday’s
4-0 win at Nottingham Forest with a convincing home victory courtesy of Aleksandar Mitrovic’s hat-trick.
Furlong’s sending off came with Albion 2-0 down at the Cottage and was a little controversial, after he appeared to get a touch to the ball before taking down Harry Wilson when through on goal.
Referee Michael Salisbury opted to produce a red card to Furlong with 20 minutes left and Mitrovic added his third eight minutes from time, though there was still time for Fulham’s Tosin Adarabioyo to see red for a late challenge on Grady Diangana.
“I think that it’s the same story week in week out away from home,” bemoaned boss Valerian Ismael.
“As long as we make mistakes you will be punished. It was the same against Bristol last week, we won 3-0 but some mistakes weren’t punished, but today that wasn’t the case.
“On the first goal, it’s a penalty, but just before the penalty we lost the ball too easily, and I don’t want to speak about if it was a penalty or not because we lost the ball again.
“But that doesn’t matter because at 1-0 down we were able to come back into the game. It’s not a problem if you concede a goal but the second goal for sure made the situation much more difficult for us to come back in the game.
“I told the guys at half-time to put in the performance and make sure we can score to come back in the game to start again, but I think we played well and created enough chances to score.
“Fulham was much better than us, very strong, but it was our mistake and this is the reason we lost. On one side it’s a good thing because you can avoid this, but need to work on it for the next game.”