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Lack of aggression costing West Brom games, claims winger

West Brom winger Chris Brunt has warned his team-mates they need more aggression if they are to stave off relegation from the Premiership. "It all comes down to defending the ball when it comes into your box and we didn't do that," Brunt told the Express and Star.

"We have to stick together as a group of lads and be more aggressive as a team.

"It's well documented that we're not the most aggressive of sides but when the ball comes into the box we have to put our head on it and not doing that is what's costing us.

"It's disappointing because Arsenal haven't been in the greatest form and they have found it hard to score goals but we gifted them a couple.

"It's all well and good working on it in training and everybody knowing what to do before the game but if we don't put our head on the ball when it comes into the box teams are going to punish us and we have seen that in the last couple of games."

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