West Bromwich Albion: Keeper reveals secret to upturn in fortunes

Jan 10 2009 Chris Lepowski

“I think it has worked a treat. I don’t know if he is going to stick with it because he will know opponents better than me.”

Carson added: “We are now trying to play football in their half and I think that has worked really well for us, especially against Manchester City.

“It gave us a lot of possession in their half. I think we have also had better fortune in the last few games. At the start of the season we were struggling for a bit of luck.

“Things weren’t dropping for us, decisions were being given against us and there were little things that weren’t working out.

“Hopefully in the second half of the season we can get a bit of luck because in my view we have turned a bit of a corner. I wouldn’t say we’ve given vintage performances but we took the points.

“We have ground results out and that’s what we needed to do. Earlier in the season we let a few points slip when we should have ground results out.

“But in the last couple of games we have put steady performances in and I think we deserved the six points we got at home.”

Carson is one of a few players to have experienced England’s top flight.

For every Carson, Morrison, Greening, Meite and Robinson there’s an Olsson, Zuiverloon, Barnett, Miller, Bednar, Koren, Texeira, Cech, Kim, Brunt and Borja.

He appreciates that many of his team-mates are new to the Premier League and, in some cases, English football.

“It’s a great credit to the players who haven’t played at this level before that they have adapted really well,” he added.

“They have learned really quickly and it’s not easy. We were five or six points adrift at one stage and normally when that happens it’s all over,” he said.