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From a fitness perspective, I get some of the concerns.
Grant started just 17 games last season – fewer than the released Wallace (although he is also four years younger than the skipper).
The 14 games for which Grant was unavailable due to injury this season is more than he’s missed through injury in the previous five years of his Albion career.
At just 28, it’s easy to believe this
A subdued opening was brought to life when Maja, back in Albion’s starting line-up at the expense of Aune Heggebo, found Sammy Iling-Junior on the right flank.
The on-loan winger swept past his man and sent in a low cross that was not fully cleared. Isaac Price was alive to the threat, delivering a low cross from the right that Maja converted at the far post.
Norwich’s best chance of
Managerless West Bromwich Albion have been dealt another blow after losing top scorer Josh Maja with “a lower leg injury”.
The 26-year-old is second-highest scorer in the Championship this season, with 12 goals from 26 matches, behind only Norwich City’s Borja Sainz.
But Albion say he will have to undergo surgery, before a period of rehabilitation and that he will be out for “several weeks”., external
After a hat-trick
After scoring just two goals in their first seven home games this season, Albion have now hit 11 in their last five.
The opener came on 18 minutes when Mikey Johnston, fresh from his first two goals of the season in Albion’s last home game, cut in from the left and looked set to unleash one of his trademark right-foot curlers, but he totally foxed the North End defence.
He
London-born Nigeria international Maja had only previously scored one hat-trick in professional football, in his time in France at Bordeaux, against Nimes in December 2019.
But the former Sunderland and Fulham striker was particularly pleased with his second on 51 minutes – a far-post set up by young winger Tom Fellows, after new signing Torbjorn Heggem’s similar assist for his equalising first in the 26th minute.
“It’s not something
QPR boss Marti Cifuentes:
“I’m not satisfied with our performance. Even though we took the lead and had good moments after we scored we started to drop (back). The equaliser was a consequence of us dropping too much and defending too passive.
“The three goals actually were pretty bad. West Brom shot on goal four times and three were a goal. That shows a big difference.
“It’s a good reality