West Brom's Steve Bruce: Low confidence is not surprising
Boss Steve Bruce is not surprised by the lack of confidence at Albion – with injuries making it feel like the ‘world is against you’.
The Baggies have gone six games without a win in the Championship and fallen to 11th in the table as a result.
Bruce’s lot suffered a 2-1 defeat at Middlesbrough last time out, and on their low confidence levels, he said: “It doesn’t surprise me. When you’ve been relegated and you start the new season with a new manager and there are a few bad results. With that comes injuries.
“The poor manager before me pays £7million for a centre forward (Daryl Dike), and he does his hamstring badly in his first game.
“You know then that the world is against you.
“Until we get those players fit, let’s see what we can do.”
Albion have struggled for goals as of late, with Jayson Molumby’s strike in the Boro defeat coming after a run of five games without a goal.
Top scorer Karlan Grant, on 10, has gone six matches without finding the net.
Bruce added on the 24-year-old: “You get judged on goals and he’s got double figures, but I think he got that before Christmas, and usually it’s the strikers who suffer because they’re only judged on one thing.
“We’ve been dealt a bad hand in terms of injuries, when you pay a lot of money on a striker and he gets injured in his first game.
“We’ve got to try to get him back to what he was before, get a goal and get some confidence, win a match and it’s amazing how quickly it turns around.”
