Sheffield Wednesday vs West Brom: Player ratings for Baggies as Corberan’s side suffer first league defeat

Championship promotion hopefuls West Bromwich Albion suffered their first defeat of the 2024/25 season in an action-packed contest away to Sheffield Wednesday.

The Baggies got off to a dreadful start at Hillsborough when Darnell Furlong inadvertently turned the ball into his own goal after a strike from Marvin Johnson. West Brom’s uphill task became even bigger after 23 minutes when Josh Windass doubled the Owls with a looping header over goalkeeper Alex Palmer.

Carlos Corberan’s side showed tremendous spirit to fight their way back into the game in the second half. The division’s top scorer Josh Maja made it seven in seven to reduce the deficit by one and second half substitute Alex Mowatt looked to have secured a hard-fought point with an 84th minute strike.

However, ultimately on this occasion it wasn’t to be for the Baggies as Dutch forward Anthony Musaba came off the bench to tap in his first goal of the season.

Below, Birmingham World has rounded up all of the West Brom player ratings, courtesy of info from WhoScored.com.

Starting XI

Goalkeeper: Alex Palmer - 5.9

Conceded three goals in a tough afternoon for his team defensively.

Right back: Darnell Furlong - 5.7

Scored an own goal early on his worst performace of the season to date.

Centre back: Semi Ayaji - 6.3

Struggled to deal with Sheffield Wedensday’s attacking threat.

Centre back: Kyle Bartley - 6.9

Solid as usual, wasn’t at fault for any of the goals.

Left back: Torbjorn Heggem - 6.5

Played the full 90 in a tough afternoon defensively.

Centre midfield: Uros Rajic - 6.0

Failed to win the midfield battle and was taken off the pitch after an hour.

Centre midfield: Ousmane Diakite - 6.3

Struggled to take command of the game. Was subsituted at half time.

Right midfield: Tom Fellows - 6.8

West Brom were bright going forward in spells and Fellows was partially the reason for that with a second half assist.

Attacking centre midfield: John Swift - 7.2

Composed in possession and mostly made good decisions with his passes.

Left midfield: Karlan Grant - 5.9

Not his best afternoon, was subsituted off after 60 minutes

Striker: Josh Maja - 7

Took his goal well to maintain his excellent start to the campaign.

Substitutes

1.Centre midfield: Alex Mowatt - 7.3

Was hugely impactful from the bench, looked to have levelled proceedings before a late Wednesday winner.

2. Right midfield: Jed Wallace - 6.0

Failed to make a huge impact from the bench.

3. Centre midfield: Grady Diangana - 6.3

Worked hard in the final half an hour.

4. Left back: Gianluca Falbrotta - 6.1

Only got seven minutes of action as a late subsitute.

5. Left midfield: Mikey Johnston - 6.2

The ex-Celtic man failed to make a big impact in the final 30 minutes.