West Brom’s Matt Phillips missed the 4-1 win over Reading on Saturday through injury, and Baggies fans slated his replacement Tyrone Mears’ performance on Twitter.
The Scottish international excelled at the start of this season in a right wing-back role for Darren Moore’s side, but has now missed the last three matches with a muscle strain.
According to the Birmingham Mail, Phillips was in contention to start the game against the Royals, but he failed to even make the bench, signalling that his injury was worse than the manager had counted on.
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Mears played the first hour at the Hawthorns, but was dragged off for Kyle Edwards with the scores still at 1-1 and the Baggies then went on to net three and win the game comfortably thanks to a double from Dwight Gayle and one each from Harvey Barnes and Kyle Bartley.
35-year-old Mears only joined the Baggies from the MLS in the summer, but wouldn’t have expected to be asked to play so often until Phillips’ injury. Check out some of the tweets in reaction to his performance below.
