Tony Mowbray retains confidence in West Brom end of season results

Misfiring Albion have stumbled to just a single win in seven games, including four defeats in five, at the crunch time of the season.

Mowbray's men welcome Derby County to The Hawthorns on Easter Monday - in a run of facing three of the bottom four to round off the campaign. Play-off hopes are all-but over with six points separating Albion and sixth with three games remaining.

"I would expect us to win three games," Mowbray said. "Whether that’s enough points I don’t know, we’ll wait and see.

"We play three of the bottom four in the next three games. That means they’re very tough games, of course, because they’re fighting for their lives but we’re more than capable - if we play well enough - of winning the three games. Two of them at home, one away at Cardiff.

"We needed to go to Coventry and win to put a marker down and we didn’t manage to do that."

Albion turned in one of their poorest displays of the campaign in Friday's big stage at rivals Coventry's CBS Arena. The Sky Blues were comfortable 2-0 winners as the visitors turned in an insipid performance to leave empty-handed.

"We will turn up and be who we are and what we are," Mowbray added. "I don’t want to sound Ange Postecoglou there, but we play as we play really.

"So, a reaction? Listen, there was no bigger game than today's game (Coventry), so we came with an intent to win a football match today and it didn’t pan out for us."

Left-back Callum Styles will serve a one-match suspension following his dismissal for two yellow cards in Coventry. Styles joins midfielder Jayson Molumby in serving a ban in four red cards in just 16 games since Mowbray's return in January.