Ryan Mason on how West Brom have ‘grown’ during pre-season..
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New Albion boss Ryan Mason says there are plenty of positives to take from their friendly clash with Dynamo Kyiv but insists there is still lots of work to do.
The Baggies drew 1-1 with the Ukrainian champions at their training base in Austria on Friday as Mason used a total of 21 players at the Bad Tatzmannsdorf Fussballarena. Albion took the lead but new signing Nat Phillips’ second-half header was cancelled out by Vladyslav Vanat.
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“I think we’ve had growth in the last seven days out here,’’ said Mason. “It’s been intense, but we wanted that. You could see a lot of that work we’ve been putting in, in the match.
“It’s important to see the growth we’ve had. We’ve put a lot of work in and normally you wouldn’t go into a game that physically fatigued, but that’s part of pre-season. We need to learn to play under that stress.
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“We wanted to see some things we’ve worked on in the week and we’ve seen that. We understand there’s still lots of work to do and that’s exciting for us.”
Albion’s next pre-season fixture is Saturday’s visit to League One side Blackpool.
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