West Brom head coach Tony Mowbray was full of praise for Tom Fellows after the attacker’s performance in the 2-1 win over Watford
West Brom head coach Tony Mowbray eulogised Tom Fellows’ standout display, highlighting the young player’s dual assists during their 2-1 triumph against Watford in the Championship.
Fellows proved pivotal for the Baggies, creating two key opportunities that Karlan Grant and Mikey Johnston converted at The Hawthorns, propelling West Brom to seventh in the league, while a struggling Watford, despite Moussa Sissoko’s effort, dropped to 11th after their third loss in five matches.
The boss was full of praise for Fellows’ confidence and performance. “Fellows is a wonderful, wonderful player. He is a very unassuming boy,” Mowbray remarked.
“He never knocks on my door’s saying, ‘why am I not playing? I feel like deserved to play’. He just accepts my decisions and gets on with it. He’s a dream footballer to manage, really.”
In spite of Watford having more of the ball, it was the hosts who fashioned the clearer cut chances, with two goals enough to see them through to victory.
Amidst recent setbacks, with West Brom facing three consecutive defeats, Mowbray praised his team and staff for their resilience. “Having to deal with the three results that came in the last 10 days and I’ve said repeatedly, I think the performance level of those games were really high and could easily have won all of them games,” he said.
“It’s not how I really want to play, but it opens the question to letting the opposition have more of the ball and played in the spaces that they leave as they come onto you. We could have scored more than we did today. I think we had five big chances.
“I think when you’ve got the speed of Fellows, Grant and Mikey Johnson, sometimes maybe [it is better] to let the opposition have the ball.”
Watford head coach Tom Cleverley felt his team dominated on Saturday, yet conceded that West Brom were the “more effective” side.
“I felt like we had more control of the ball, but I feel like sometimes it doesn’t always have to be perfect football,” he said.
“I thought they were more effective than us and I think you could argue we were the better team, but they were the more effective team.
“We didn’t use the deep balls as much as we should today. I thought there was desire to run in behind, we just need to play that ball a bit more often.
“Today, we lack the level of clinical nature in the final third, and a bit of quality to add to that as well. There’s a lot to like about the foundations and stability of how we’re playing for next season but ultimately, you’d rather be the effective team.
“We’re expecting a lot from Mamadou Doumbia, who has come from Mali, and 19-year-old Rocco Vata, who’s started the last three.
“These are players with quality, but to become effective with that quality is what they’re learning on the job and they’ll be much better for it next season.”
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