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Carlos Corberan says sorry to West Brom fans after Carabao Cup upset at Fleetwood

Carlos Corberan says sorry to West Brom fans after his side suffered a Carabao Cup First Round upset at Fleetwood Town on Tuesday night.

The young Baggies side were beaten 2-1 by Fleetwood, who came from behind to advance through at Highbury Stadium – with Ryan Graydon and Ronan Coughlan efforts overturning Mo Faal’s early strike.

There were 11 changes to the West Brom team, with there a mixture of summer signings and academy products, but the packed out away end were left coming away disappointed.

Fleetwood XI: Lynch (GK), Medley, Wiredu (C), Bonds (Helm, 56′), Graydon (Johnston, 66′), Virtue, Mayor, Broom, Holgate, Coughlan (Lonergan, 66′), Patterson.

Subs not used: Harrington (GK), Bolton, Odubeko, Dolan, Hughes, Smith.

West Brom XI: Wildsmith (GK), Taylor (C), Diakite, Dobbin (Sule, 72′), McNair (Nelson, 61′), Frabotta (Deeming, 61′), Heard, Faal, Whitwell (Dauda, 78′), Hall, Cole (Cleary, 72′).

Subs not used: Cann (GK), Diomande, Mfuamba, Richards.

Interviewer: Well, Carlos, you made plenty of changes here tonight. Eleven In total. And you handed so many debuts to so many of our academy players. How pleased were you with their performances tonight?

Carlos: Despite the result, of course, the target today was to keep playing the competition. Even if we were playing with. We changed like completely the team from the last league game. We wanted to use this game to keep going the competition because I think that was important, to have the possibility to keep adding minutes in the competition with the young players, to keep adding minutes in the competition, in the cup with some of the players that they couldn’t make a precision with us, even with some of the play that we will receive in the next days. But unfortunately, we didn’t achieve the result that we wanted to achieve.

Interviewer: How much of a setback was it to concede an equaliser so soon after scoring the opening goal?

Carlos: No, in general, it’s true that we start dominating the first minutes. We scored the first goal and after we scored the first goal, in the moment that they start to press more, we start to lose a little bit the positions in attack and we lost the control of the game. And that’s why in two and four, losing of the ball in two means losing of the ball that we don’t have to have. We lost the ball in the middle of the pitch and they were using the transition to score the two goals that at the end were decisive in the result. In the second half, we tried to attack, but we didn’t create any chances. In the chances that we created, we were not enough clinical to control the game.

Interviewer: What was your message to the younger players, specifically in the dressing room after the game, Carlos?

Carlos: The same one that I introduced you. That has been a pity that we couldn’t keep going in the competition. Because for me, after the pre season that they have done with us, because many of them have been working with us in the pre season and especially in the game that we play against Cambridge, they saw that they were competing well and they saw that they could held the first team to keep going to the next round. And for me, these minutes are important minutes because it’s not easy to have the opportunity to play with the first minute when you are academic player. And here we are giving to them the chance. Unfortunately now for everyone, let’s say that for the young player, they are not going to have this possibility. They need to win this possibility training with the under 21s and competing with the under 21s. But I think that we have lost the chance to. To press on the cap and to come keep using this to develop our young players or to develop the new players.

Interviewer: Just finally, I’d just like to ask you about Caleb Taylor. He was your captain tonight. It was Just his fourth start for this football club, Carlos. But he recently signed a new long term contract. And I’m guessing by giving him the armband, it shows Just how much faith you’ve got in him.

Carlos: We know that he’s a player, that he needs exactly what he has done today, play football games, because to help him in his develop as a player, he needs to play regularly because, you know, the players cannot show in the full pitch what they are able to do. He needs to face some type of challenge and to grow as a player to be ready to help the first team, that this is the target that we all have with him.

Corberan sympathised with the travelling support, adding: “We always want to make them enjoy themselves, but we couldn’t give that to them. They were making the effort to support the team. We have the responsibility to win football games.”

Fleetwood boss Charlie Adam said: “We were excellent, really aggressive in the press and we had good organisation and good shape. It’s been a mentality change.

“We’ve recruited good people. The most important thing with our recruitment was that I want good people in the building, because that’s been a problem over the the last couple years – characters, attitudes, people not wanting to be here.

“And ultimately, they have to leave the football club, because we want to achieve something special and if there’s anybody here that doesn’t want to do it, then they can leave.”

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There was plenty of reaction on Twitter as Carlos Corberan says sorry to West Brom fans after the Carabao Cup upset at Fleetwood…

@harmanw84: Pretty unfair on the fans that travelled tbf, we never even had a go

@WBAMozza: I know we’re out, and it’s disappointing…. but please understand the situation, our squad is currently too thin for 46 games let alone a cup run. Just a few long term injuries with our current depth could be disastrous. Positives to take from Whitwell & Heard performances #wba

@bc_6600: One cup run. That’s all I ask for. Will never happen.

@kingofchezo_WBA: We basically threw the game, CC didn’t care and I didn’t see him once get out his seat. Pointless he may as well not be there. Was it to prove a point? I definitely think so. That was basically a glorified pre season friendly

@MarkAbel_28: That team was good enough to beat Fleetwood. The frustration isn’t just about selection, it’s about the way in which we played, how we were set up to play and how we didn’t change the style during the 2nd half. Incredibly disappointing.

@conradchircop: Fleetwood deserved their win. On the flip side, some encouraging performances – Heard was excellent, Whitwell creative, Taylor and Hall v good ball playing defenders. Deago Nelson was lively when he came on and has a future. Not impressed by Diakite and Frabotta. Cole lacking fitness and Dobbin is still getting there. Wildsmith didn’t impress me. Faal worked hard but little more than a target man. Dauda just fouled.

@JonW1995: I’m don’t want to hear “focus on the league”, “Mickey mouse cup”, “we’ve lost a lot of players”, “Our financial position”…. that’s just plain embarrassing…

@iankenny75: Wonder what happens after round 1 of the #CarabaoCup cause we never see it. 🤣🤣🤣. Heard the EFL have introduced an exciting new rule for next season. Whoever WBA draw gets an automatic bye to 2nd round, so we don’t have the humiliation of actually playing the fixture. 🤣🤣 #WBA

@ShedBaggie: Serious question. What position do we have to be in to not ‘focus on the league’? Get to the Prem it’s ’stay in the Prem’. So what, get in the Prem & be consistently in the top 8 for a few seasons & then gamble on a Cup run? At 56 I accept a Final will never be in my lifetime

@joshwba__: “Play the kids” they say every season. This is why we don’t. Heard and Whitwell looked decent, but it’s clear a lot of these just aren’t ready. Hopefully, more signings to come

@SicknessWitness: For all the wonderful things Carlos has done with the Albion his half efforts in the Cups is starting to annoy . As with many before him , you put pressure on your next result sticking out sides like that , I refuse to believe we couldnt have put 3 or so first teamers out #Wba

@baggiedave70: A once proud cup side

@kierandoody: Not as bad as people are making out IMO but is it too much to ask for #wba to at least try and get a cup run going? I do understand the financial priorities but if scraping promotion, getting dicked for a season then coming back down is all we can expect then why bother?

@Dan501Hadley: Shocking, I wasn’t expecting the best 11, but CC completely throwed them lads under the bus tonight. He had no interest what so ever, wasn’t in the technical area really either

@smiffy_909: At this point, is there even any point entering the cups 😂😂 waste of fans time and money when as a club we are clearly not even slightly arsed about having a good cup run.

@johntur01: Need plenty of signings desperately. Depth is so poor, if we get any injuries, we will be ruined.

@Hayward77Joshua: Embarrassing that, it’s all on CC tonight that is, either start strong kill the game off then bring the kids on, or have some first XI on the bench to bring on to change the game.

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