West Brom boss Tony Mowbray is urging his players to learn from their defeat to Arsenal ahead of this weekend's clash against Manchester United.
"You hope to learn from every experience and I'm pretty sure the players will take certain aspects of that game into this one," he told West Brom's website. "The bottom line is that you can feel the quality of the opposition on the field, as we did against Fulham.
"It will be even greater at Manchester United but it's no good standing back and admiring it.
"You have to go and compete.
"Ultimately what changed at Arsenal was that we stopped standing back and we did try to get in amongst them and make some challenges and tackles.
"We didn't withdraw into our shell every time they got the ball and I think you have to do that at Old Trafford.
"We have to compete and not sit back, waiting for them to attack us.
"We've got to try to take it off them and get our own game going."