Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has spoken of his disappointment, after a late West Brom goal condemned his side to a 3-2 defeat on Wednesday night.
Demba Ba continued his excellent goalscoring form, twice bringing The Magpies level after goals from Peter Odemwingie and Gareth McAuley, but a Paul Scharner effort with five minutes left stole victory for the visitors.
Pardew was unhappy with the defeat, especially given that Newcastle played well in the second half and were at home.
“It’s an upsetting game for us to lose because we are at home,” he told Sky Sports.
“The first half I didn’t think we played anywhere near to our ability.
“Second half we did. We came back from a goal down. We was bossing proceedings, looking like we were going to get back into it, and when we got the second goal it set us up for a grand stand finish.
“But then to get done on the counter attack because of us looking for the win, maybe we were a little bit too desperate tonight.
“We would have had 30 points if we won tonight and maybe we wanted it too much, and didn’t play as controlled as we usually do.
“We were creating chance after chance before we scored and then when we did we thought there we go, we can win it, but the front two for West Brom were a threat all night.
“They got down the side and had a bit of fortune for the goal I thought,” he concluded.
By Gareth McKnight
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