West Brom manager Steve Clarke was disappointed by the team’s 3-0 defeat at Craven Cottage against Fulham yesterday, but believes his team will recover.
The Baggies finally lost their first game of the season against a rampart Fulham side. The Birmingham club had enjoyed a flying start to their domestic campaign, recording two wins and a draw in the league and managing an impressive 4-2 victory over Yeovil
Town in the Capital One Cup.
However, their momentum came to a halt as the Baggies suffered a 3-0 defeat at Craven Cottage yesterday. Fulham, fresh from a 3-0 defeat themselves before the international break at the hands of West Ham, were impressive and put in a solid performance against
an in-form and confident West Brom side.
A calamitous first half saw a brilliant http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Peter-Odemwingie-c29794 made a rash tackle which got him sent off in the 37th minute. Things did not look good for the club, and there was
more to come in the second half.
Berbatov scored a second goal, converting a penalty from the spot and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Steve-Sidwell-c34181 added the third. This wrapped up a well deserved 3 points for the London club.
West Brom manager Steve Clarke was disappointed with the result, but believes that his side have the quality and composure to recover from it and get back on track. Speaking to the media after the game, Clarke said:
"It is obviously disappointing. We started the game slowly and I was disappointed with that. We allowed Fulham to control the game.”
"We deservedly went a goal down and the sending-off of Peter compounded the problems we had and made for a long afternoon."
Clarke refused to be too critical of Odemwingie and added:
"We are all human, everybody has got emotions.”
"He thought he had a free-kick against him, the red mist obviously came down and he will take his punishment. He will get his three-game ban and the club has got a disciplinary process we will go through, and we move on."
The player himself admitted his mistake and vowed not repeat his mistake again. West Brom will be looking forward to recovering from this defeat and get back on track as they aim for another top half finish in the league.
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