Manager Slaven Bilic has conceded that West Brom must now prepare for the Championship play-offs after their 2-1 defeat away at Huddersfield on Friday night.
Despite Dara O’Shea’s equaliser, goals from Chris Willock and Emile Smith Rowe ensured that Bilic’s side left the John Smith’s Stadium empty-handed, and took automatic promotion out of their own hands.
Should Brentford now beat Stoke and Barnsley in their final two games of the season, West Brom will be competing in the play-offs regardless of whether or not they win at home to QPR on the final day of the campaign, and it seems that is something Bilic expects to happen.
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Speaking to the Birmingham Mail about what comes next for his side after that defeat to the Terriers, Bilic said: “So what? I don’t expect that, to be fair. We must now get ready for QPR and play-offs.
Discussing the approach he and his team must now take, Bilic continued: “It’s hard to talk about it tonight, At the end of the day we have two options. We can back up and feel sorry for ourselves, and think ‘oh my God this’, ‘oh my God that’ – to moan, to cry, to feel sorry for ourselves.
“We have a more difficult option. We can use this second chance, which thank God we get. It’s only a few games. Now we have to find it.
“Are we proper men? Are we a proper team? Proper characters? Or are we only good in the good times?”
