Defiant West Brom boss determined to tackle Leeds head on

The Baggies face the stiffest test of the Championship campaign as they head to the table-topping Whites for Saturday's lunchtime kick-off.

Daniel Farke's hosts are unbeaten in 16 games and gave their automatic promotion hopes a big shot in the arm with Monday's victory over second-placed Sheffield United.

Albion returned to winning ways last time out, however, and head coach Mowbray has rejuvenated options at his disposal having had Albion's squad bolstered by the January transfer window. The sides shared the points in a stalemate at The Hawthorns in August on the second weekend of the campaign.

A defiant Mowbray said: "I like those games! I don't like them if we get beat and come away with nothing.

"I like to go there and show them what a good team we are, what good individuals we've got and how organised we can be.

"Go toe-to-toe with them almost, let's see how we get on."

The Whites' 71 goals scored this term is 16 more than their nearest competitors in that regard, 10th-placed Norwich. Albion are boosted by the return from suspension of former Leeds defender Kyle Bartley.

Leeds have clocked up five Championship victories on the spin in the hunt for an automatic ticket to the Premier League having missed out to Adam Armstrong's Wembley play-off final winner for Southampton last term.

Loan striker Armstrong is likely to lead the line for Mowbray's Baggies, who are seeking to build on Saturday's win over lowly Oxford in a clash in which they forced 22 shots but few - just five - were on target.

Analysing that area, Mowbray added: "It's frustrating, because I say to them if we have 20-odd shots every game, increase the more on target, we will win games two, three, four nil.

"The job is to almost sell the product to them really - because they had the product to them for two or three years that helped them to relative success, the play-offs last year.

"I'm not saying anything is right or wrong, it's just different."