Mason joy as Baggies end winless run

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Ryan Mason's side had not scored in their three previous matches

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West Bromwich Albion head coach Ryan Mason says he was happy with his side's reaction as they came from behind to win 2-1 at home to Oxford United.

A Greg Leigh own goal and header from Aune Heggebo ensured the Baggies ended a four-game winless run and moved up to 13th in the Championship.

"It was important, you could feel it, But not just the win - I thought the performance, the attitude, the intensity we played with was really pleasing after a really disappointing way to lose the game on Tuesday," he told told BBC WM.

"I'm really happy with the reaction, we created so many opportunities; we probably should have scored a lot more than two, but I'm pleased to win the game.

"They scored against the run of play. In the first half we had 15 shots at the goal, we don't come away with anything to show from it, but that happens.

"The players stuck to what we worked on, what we wanted from them, and some improvements today in terms of balls arriving in the box -I thought we had so many penalty-box entries.

"We need to keep working on the final action and arriving in the areas we want to, but we scored two really good goals in my opinion today, so we're happy. "