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McAuley hopes for West Brom improvement

SoccerNews in English Premier League 16 Feb 2013

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West Brom defender Gareth McAuley hopes the club can use Monday’s 2-0 win over Liverpool as a boost for the rest of the Premier League season.

West Brom defender Gareth McAuley hopes the club can use Monday’s 2-0 win over Liverpool as a boost for the rest of the Premier League season.

Peter Odemwingie’s attempts to force through a deadline-day transfer to QPR and Goran Popov’s red card for spitting at Kyle Walker have brought the club unwelcome attention but the unexpected victory at Anfield moved Steve Clarke’s side up to 10th.

“We needed to get the feel-good factor going again. There’s been a lot of things being talked about and we wanted to get a result and start talking about football again,” McAuley said of the club’s aim to better last season’s tally of 47 points and a 10th-place finish.

“We needed to move on and draw a line under everything. We have 12 games to go until the end of the season and we need to win as many of those as we can.

“We’ve got the lads back on the park again. We’ve got players fit and hopefully we can go out and pick up some results now.

“We know (Popov and Odemwingie) are important players for us and we missed them when they weren’t in the team – getting them back together was important but we were focused and determined.

“We knew a win would put us above Liverpool and it was all about getting a result.

“It’s still the same targets we’ve had from the beginning of the season, which were to finish higher than we did last year and with more points than we did last year. That’s the focus. We’ve got 12 games left and we need to win as many of those as we can.”

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