West Bromwich Albion can't afford any more slip-ups - Tony Mowbray

Apr 1 2008

WEST Bromwich Albion cannot afford any more slip-ups in the final weeks of the Championship, according to Tony Mowbray.

The Baggies boss, who takes his team down to Cardiff City tonight, believes Roman Bednar's late winner against Colchester on Saturday must act as a wake-up call to ensure there are no more dramas.

And Mowbray feels that every single point will be vital from now until the end of the campaign as Albion prepare to play the first of their two games in hand, knowing a win tonight will take them up to second place.

"You have to take the positives from Saturday and the players kept going right till the end and managed to get the victory," said Mowbray.

"And the three points are huge, you just have look at the table.

"If we hadn't got the three points you would be sitting here today looking over our shoulders at the teams closing up behind, rather than looking up at the top.

"I'm sure everybody is sitting there thinking if only this and if only that.

"We can all win every game in our minds.

"But we are where we are, and we have missed opportunities this year to be sitting top of this league with games in hand and other teams are sitting there thinking, if we hadn't dropped those points we'd be sitting top of the league.

"We have got seven games to go and some teams have got five or six to go.

"Every result is important now."

CARDIFF: (from) Enckelman, Oakes, Capaldi, Loovens, Johnson, Ramsey, Rae, Whittingham, Sinclair, McPhail, Ledley, Thompson, Scimeca, Parry, Purse, Feeney.

* ALBION: (from) Kiely, Danek, Albrechtsen, Hoefkens, Hodgkiss, Martis, Barnett, Clement, Cesar, Robinson, Gera, Koren, Greening, Brunt, Morrison, Kim, Miller, Bednar, Phillips.