Sam Allardyce leads West Brom to former club West Ham today in the unusual position of seeking a successive Premier League victory.

Albion posted only their second win of the season on Saturday at neighbours Wolves, thanks to a Matheus Pereira penalty brace and a Semi Ajayi header.

It’s given Allardyce’s tenure and survival push a real platform on which to build, but they must ensure that it isn’t a flash in the pan as the victory over Sheffield United proved to be.

West Ham represent a challenge - they won on Saturday against Burnley and have largely terrific under David Moyes this season.

This is what Allardyce made of three key performances at Wolves, what Albion can still do better and his return to West Ham.

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Goals conceded

“We have to start by not conceding two goals at West Ham,” Allardyce said.

“If we have to score three - we have now only done it two times this season and the third time we didn’t win. We have got to make sure we don’t give goals away.

“We cannot give West Ham the goals we gave Wolves. If they score a fantastic goal then you can hold your hands up, but we can’t keep gifting goals away.”

Snodgrass impact

“Snodders! Considering he hasn’t played a lot, we thought we would have to look at taking him off after 70 minutes but, in all fairness, he is so fit the lad.

“He’s got so much energy he didn’t look that tired so we left him on and he did the job. He brings huge experience to the team and if we can add to that with experience and quality then hopefully that will make us better.

“We are still in a massively difficult position. We are still underwater and we are still drowning. The only way we get our head above water is to get to the same points per game. Once we do that things will be looking a lot brighter.”

Colossal Bartley

“Congratulations to the centre-halves, it was nice to see him doing his job correctly. He was getting into the right positions, making the right blocks.

“He did the right things. A central defender must always be judged on how good he is as a defender, not at how good he is at playing the ball out believe you me.

“Because if they are good defenders that will help you get clean sheets, if you get clean sheets you don’t lose football matches.”

Semi Ajayi of West Bromwich Albion celebrates with teammate Kyle Bartley after scoring his team's second goal against Wolves

Magic Matheus

“He was very good. Not just his two penalties and his ability, but also his workrate. I saw a lad working with the team for the team.

“His quality and his confidence in himself - because he missed a penalty at Blackpool just a week ago - but he took two penalties very confidently to win the game.”

West Bromwich Albion's Matheus Pereira scores from the penalty spot against Wolves

Win shows you’re alive and kicking...

“It does. The first aim at West Ham is to come off the pitch undefeated. We can’t go down and say we are going to win in the position we are in.

“The Wolves result has given us confidence but we have got to go and apply ourselves again, just as well as we did against Wolves and then we have to take our chances when they come along.

“My one small criticism from the Wolves game is that we didn’t convert a chance from open play. We still have to improve that. Our goals came from two penalties and a throw-in.

“I have seen us create chances but we have to convert them. That is something we can work on. We can’t always rely on set-plays.”

Your return to West Ham

“I had four good years there. I took over in the first year and took them up and went on to have three fantastic years in the Premier League there.

“It’s nice to see them maintain that position and try and improve year in, year out. That was a job well done. Going back can only be a joy for me if we get a result.”