{"id":540864,"date":"2025-10-31T23:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:49:18","slug":"west-brom-v-sheffield-wednesday-lewis-coxs-predicted-xi-with-attacking-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540864\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom v Sheffield Wednesday: Lewis Cox&#8217;s predicted XI with attacking decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/?callback=in&amp;code=YJIYOGNLZDETMTFLYS0ZOGE0LTGXM2UTODZHNTMZYJC5OGQZ&amp;state=f765aaea0750499bae65afa214e31ed7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baggies\u00a0<\/a>look to return to winning ways with some home comforts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/2025\/10\/31\/west-brom-v-sheffield-wednesday-ryan-mason-makes-not-sustainable-point-as-albion-look-for-more-in-latest-three-game-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against the basement boys<\/a> who slumped 14 points adrift last week having been hit with a 12-point penalty for entering administration.<\/p>\n<p>Mason&#8217;s side were patched up following successive away days at Watford and Ipswich last week, both of which proved fruitless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2025\/10\/31\/ryan-mason-gives-latest-west-brom-fitness-update-with-mixed-news-on-midfielders-and-right-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The head coach revealed<\/a> in Friday&#8217;s press conference that his options remain just as limited in central midfield, where both Jayson Molumby (muscle) and Toby Collyer (hamstring) remained sidelined for a third game in succession.<\/p>\n<p>It points to Alex Mowatt and Ousmane Diakite, the other natural options, continuing in that role. Mason did point out that he does have the choice to use versatile left-back Callum Styles in the position, or defender Krystian Bielik.<\/p>\n<p>With the onus on the hosts to win against lowly opposition in front of home supporters tomorrow I have opted for an attacking change at left-back with Styles recalled for Charlie Taylor. That could be in the balance, however, if the head coach opts for Styles in midfield instead of the more defensive Diakite.<\/p>\n<p>In attack I see one change too. Josh Maja may well lead the line in place of Aune Heggebo. Maja started the last home game, the 2-1 win over Preston a fortnight ago, but was unable to start in the following clashes at Vicarage Road and Portman Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2025\/10\/30\/only-two-strikers-who-are-really-fit-ryan-masons-view-on-west-brom-frontline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as Mason cited care around the frontman&#8217;s comeback.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/69fc682a-6987-4b5c-9ded-f29f8f800029.jpg\"   alt=\"Aune Heggebo cut a frustrating figure up front for West Brom (Photo by Adam Fradgley\/West Bromwich Albion FC via Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Aune Heggebo cut a frustrated figure up front for West Brom at Portman Road. (Photo by Adam Fradgley\/West Bromwich Albion FC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baggies\u00a0look to return to winning ways with some home comforts against the basement boys who slumped 14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,94,4884,1620,93,16,15,2785],"class_list":{"0":"post-540864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-bromwich-albion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115471461499690845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}