West Bromwich Albion Correspondent
Albion boss Carlos Corberan believed Alex Mowatt was ripe and ready for a crack at regular football – after making the midfielder wait for a start.Alex Mowatt has broken into the first XI after a frustrating start to the campaign .
And Corberan used the analogy of an apple ripening to explain the hold-up on calling on Mowatt this term – indicating the importance of timing and not going too early, or waiting too long. “If you leave the apple there, one day the apple is on the floor and not there, because the moment of the good apple finished and it disappears.
“Is his strength to be aggressive pressing in a line of four? I don’t think so. Alex Mowatt is helped more playing in a line of five, I think so. He’s better defending forward than back.
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