{"id":414041,"date":"2026-02-08T04:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414041\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:39:07","slug":"west-broms-defensive-concerns-grow-after-latest-setback-as-boss-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414041\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom&#8217;s defensive concerns grow after latest setback as boss responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mepham was a key part of an improved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/?callback=in&amp;code=YJIYOGNLZDETMTFLYS0ZOGE0LTGXM2UTODZHNTMZYJC5OGQZ&amp;state=f765aaea0750499bae65afa214e31ed7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albion\u00a0<\/a>display as Eric Ramsay ground out a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2026\/02\/07\/west-brom-0-stoke-city-0-albion-show-enough-improvement-for-point-against-potters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0point at home\u00a0<\/a>to the mid-table Potters.<\/p>\n<p>The point earned was enough to move the Baggies out of the Championship&#8217;s bottom three.<\/p>\n<p>But it could be at some cost as Mepham, who caught the eye with an improved display alongside centre-back colleague Nat Phillips, limped off with a hamstring injury in the final 10 minutes and is a doubt for Tuesday night&#8217;s trip to Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would just cross my fingers, I suppose, I&#8217;ve got no idea as to the severity of it,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2026\/02\/07\/west-brom-boss-eric-ramsay-keen-to-take-positives-from-formation-switch-and-solid-baggies-rearguard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ramsay\u00a0<\/a>said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mepham was a key part of an improved Albion\u00a0display as Eric Ramsay ground out a\u00a0point at home\u00a0to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,217,101,56,54,55,29406],"class_list":["post-414041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-bromwich-albion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}