{"id":290521,"date":"2011-03-05T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/05\/roy-hodgson-hopes-west-brom-have-turned-a-corner-after-beating-birmingham-city\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T18:31:00","slug":"roy-hodgson-hopes-west-brom-have-turned-a-corner-after-beating-birmingham-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/roy-hodgson-hopes-west-brom-have-turned-a-corner-after-beating-birmingham-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Hodgson hopes West Brom have turned a corner after beating Birmingham City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Nick Price at St Andrew&#8217;s<\/h3>\n<h4>5 Mar 2011 18:31:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"77.6233514352\">\n<div readability=\"14.7587939698\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roy Hodgson, West Bromwich Albion (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/eaa42f71124433_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Roy Hodgson, West Bromwich Albion (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"51.7296047098\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/112\/west-bromwich\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/19298\/roy-hodgson\">Roy Hodgson<\/a> is hoping his side\u2019s fortunes have taken a turn for the better after picking up his first win as Baggies boss with a 3-1 victory over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/103\/birmingham-city\">Birmingham City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goals by Youssouf Mulumbu, James Morrison and Paul Scharner handed victory to the visitors and Hodgson praised his players after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s all about football players, not coaches. It&#8217;s the players we come to see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s the players that have got to do the job. Today I think our players will feel very satisfied in a difficult match with important points at stake. They did a job very well from start to finish and got their reward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Hodgson feels whilst Albion may have turned the corner, there will be plenty of ups and downs still to come as the Premier League reaches its climax.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cHopefully we&#8217;ve turned some sort of corner but we have a very difficult programme and it&#8217;s about taking each game as it comes and trying to give the right performance and pick the right team and accepting that it&#8217;s not going to go up, up, and up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s going to be plenty of blips in these next nine games, and we&#8217;ve just got to hope there&#8217;s not so many blips that we don&#8217;t stay up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven&#8217;t set any targets. I don&#8217;t dare do those types of things. I&#8217;m very much the cliched one-match-at-a-time [manager].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a major bridge I had to cross today, we&#8217;ve got that one done. Now let&#8217;s prepare for the Arsenal game and take it from there. It really has got to be one game at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hodgson also stated that he felt teams may need more than the traditional 40 points to stay up this season with his team currently eight points shy of that target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne would like to think 42 points is enough, but some years 35 is enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe it&#8217;s going to take more points this season than it has in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Grahams Dorrans missed the game through injury and Hodgson revealed the influential Scot looks set for a spell on the sidelines and is a major doubt for their next Premier League game against Arsenal at the Hawthorns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [the physios] don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a serious injury, but it&#8217;ll keep him out for a least a couple of weeks,\u201d explained Hodgson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the Arsenal game he will be a major doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><span><em>Follow the Premier League <strong>LIVE<\/strong> on Goal.com:<\/em><\/span><br \/><span><em>Commentaries, Stats, Player Ratings and much more,<\/em><\/span><br \/><span><em>Visit Goal.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/live-scores\/fixtures?tab=all\">Live Scores<\/a>!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/05\/2380685\/roy-hodgson-hopes-west-brom-have-turned-a-corner-after\" title=\"Roy Hodgson hopes West Brom have turned a corner after beating Birmingham City\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roy Hodgson hopes West Brom have turned a corner after beating Birmingham City<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Nick Price at St Andrew&#8217;s 5 Mar 2011 18:31:00 Roy Hodgson, West Bromwich Albion (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players West Bromwich Albion manager Roy Hodgson is hoping his side\u2019s fortunes have taken a turn for the better after picking up his first win as Baggies boss with a 3-1 victory over Birmingham City . Goals by Youssouf Mulumbu, James Morrison and Paul Scharner handed victory to the visitors and Hodgson praised his players after the game. \u201cIt&#8217;s all about football players, not coaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roy Hodgson hopes West Brom have turned a corner after beating Birmingham City - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/roy-hodgson-hopes-west-brom-have-turned-a-corner-after-beating-birmingham-city\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Roy Hodgson hopes West Brom have turned a corner after beating Birmingham City - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Nick Price at St Andrew&#039;s 5 Mar 2011 18:31:00 Roy Hodgson, West Bromwich Albion (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players West Bromwich Albion manager Roy Hodgson is hoping his side\u2019s fortunes have taken a turn for the better after picking up his first win as Baggies boss with a 3-1 victory over Birmingham City . 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