Alan Pardew

And I think that is going to correct itself.

No, of course, we've all come against this system before, but it's a system that they have outstanding players in, and it's outstanding players forget the system.

You know, they had some great performances today, and they ask questions and they don't make errors, and obviously...

Kante in the midfield there, he has such energy that he had at Leicester last year.

He's brought that here and he fills a lot of holes that go unnoticed.

Yeah, I mean, it's the only sort of person we give up, really.

It was perhaps the side centre-half who might have had a little bit more time than we would have liked.

You don't really expect a centre-half to have that kind of quality.

It was a Fabregas-type pass, and OK, I could argue centre-halves, goalie, maybe you could have done something a little bit different, but...

It was a goal, a crucial time, again, just before half-time, like United scored, and that was a big blow to us.

Yeah, points now.

I said that in the dressing room, really.

The difference for us now is that we're coming up with games, we've got to get points, teams in and around us.

But we can get great heart from these two performances.

We've come up against two of the informed teams in the division and had a real close run and deserved something this week, but it wasn't to be.

Thanks, Alan.

Thank you.

Cheers, Patrick.

Well, we lost the game in the first 30 minutes when really and truly the aggression of West Brom was too much for us.

Two strikers never really impacted the game and their two strikers impacted our two centre-halves and that was the difference.