Albion 'have to take it on the chin' - Mowbray

Tony Mowbray's Albion did not manage a single shot on target at the CBS Arena

West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Mowbray admitted that his side were not good enough to deserve anything other than a local derby defeat by his old club Coventry City.

"We've lost late goals in games when we felt we should have been winning, and found a way to lose or drop points, but that wasn't the case this time," he said.

"We've lost a little of our normal intensity. But it's football. You have to take it on the chin."

Albion are now six points shy of the play-off places, after once again failing to win away from The Hawthorns.

After winning their first three away games this season, they have now not triumphed on the road since Hull City on 10 November - and they have picked up only three away points out of a possible 24 under Mowbray.

If Coventry and Bristol City both win on Easter Monday, and Albion fail to win at home to Derby County, it would confirm that the Baggies will remain in the Championship for a fifth successive season.

And Mowbray admitted: "Away, we just haven't accrued the points that we need to. Coventry are a decent team and they're on a good run of form and yet I still felt that we would come here and dominate more. But they played pretty well first half.

"We tried to make the changes at half-time that would have given us more control and yet we lost a goal within three minutes and had a sending-off pretty quickly after, and obviously the dynamic changed.

"We didn't perform at our level. It's frustrating that we aren't getting to the level we need to be at in such big games."