West Brom vs Coventry

Team news live from The Hawthorns for West Bromwich Albion vs Coventry City, including the starting lineups and substitutes.

Jed Wallace, Grady Diangana, Okay Yokuslu and Jayson Molumby make up the rest of the Albion midfield, whereas Daryl Dike leads the line. [West Brom](https://www.birminghamworld.uk/sport/football/west-brom/how-west-brom-can-still-complete-leicester-and-chelsea-deals-after-11pm-transfer-deadline-4008843) name an unchanged back four of Conor Townsend, Dara O’Shea, Erik Pieters and Darnell Furlong – but David Button comes in for Alex Palmer between the sticks. The Baggies, currently in 10th place, can soar as high as fifth with a victory tonight.

Mark Robins has stuck with an unchanged Coventry City side to face West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns tonight. Although Sky Blues defender Kyle McFadzean ...

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David Prutton has predicted West Brom will be held to a draw by mid-table Championship rivals Coventry City on Friday night.

“This is a chance to bounce back, but Coventry returned to winning ways last weekend, and they beat the Baggies at home just before Christmas. I fancy a few goals here, but I can’t split them. The cup defeat was far worse, but that has to be spun into a positive for the rest of the season that there won’t be the distraction of another competition and more time on the training ground can be used for the promotion push.

West Bromwich Albion have suffered a set-back in their preparations for the meeting with Coventry City at The Hawthorns with the news that Alex Palmer is ...

Coventry are without Callum O'Hare who is injured, but Gus Hamer and Viktor Gyokeres both line up in Mark Robins' XI. David Button, who hasn't started a league game since the defeat at The Hawthorns to Swansea in October, comes back into the starting XI. Marc Albrighton makes his debut after joining from Leicester City and starts alongside Jed Wallace and Grady Diangana behind Daryl Dike.

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Mark Robins has no major injury concerns in his squad. [WBA TV](https://www.wba.co.uk/video/packages). N/A

Grady Diangana stabbed in the only goal of the game in the first half to claim some vengeance on the Sky Blues, who'd won by the same score-line in the reverse ...

It wasn't just with the ball he impacted Albion's game - he was sliding in to win challenges and charging down clearances. We know Dike can produce - and not only in a goalscoring sense - because we saw the kind of performance at Luton that you want to see every week from him. In the right place to open the scoring at the back post. Not a whole lot to do with his hands in the first half, but he came across as very assured with his feet and passing out from the back. The first 45 minutes - perhaps even sooner than that - reflected precisely why Corberan and Albion viewed Albrighton as the ideal fit to come in and replace the injured Phillips. A tad sloppy on occasion with the ball but otherwise as cool as ever. Wallace, playing just off Dike, did hit a few cul-de-sacs as he got to grips with his newish role but as a collective Albion ran their socks off and pressed City at the back to within an inch of their lives. Took a blow to the face from Hamer's rasping strike but continued immediately unnerved, as you'd expect from him. Excellent performance, particularly when you consider he was up against one of the most renowned attackers in the division. A delightful, subtle pass around the corner from Okay Yokuslu found Dike, who bore down on goal and tried to lift the ball over the onrushing Ben Wilson, who saved with his shoulder. Gus Hamer, the scourge of Albion in the reverse fixture, tested Button with a free kick which the Baggies stand-in stopper beat away. As it was too for debutant Marc Albrighton to make a positive impression early on, just days after arriving at the club.