The boy from Benin has pulled out a strike from the very top drawer - a long ball from the keeper being flicked out wide for Andre Wisdom who gallops forward down the right and squares for Stephane Sessegnon to lace a first-time shot into the top corner from the edge of the area. Game on.

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Bob: , externalWell West Brom are set up to get something out of this game! Goals, Goals, Goals all the way Man U watch out!

Ahmet: , externalMUFC are asleep, Shaw has been caught out twice already, not looking good

Chad Smith:, external I'm cheering on the Baggies from Sydney Australia at 6 o'clock in the morning. Here's hoping for all three points!

If Manchester United did lose tonight, they would have the same number of points (11) as they had at the same stage last season under David Moyes.

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Manchester United have started sloppily and Stephane Sessegnon is gifted possession 35 yards from goal and really should do better with a throughball in the direction of Saido Berahino which runs through to David De Gea.

Baggies midfielder Graham Dorrans is getting forward early on, as the hosts zip the ball about on a lush green surface. Alan Irvine's men are probing down both flanks without actually getting in behind the Reds.

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"What a confident start by West Brom. United are sitting deep with no real pressure."

Louis Porter:, external Hoping for an easy win for once. Too many close calls or goals conceded. Would be happy with a clean sheet and 2 or 3 goals.

Rian Hoskins:, external While Di Maria and Januzaj provide more width, they like to play centrally so Shaw and Rafael are more likely to take crosses.

Adam Harkens:, external Excited to this United back four finally together, but worried that they've got the potential to collect tons of cards.

Just another manic Monday at The Hawthorns? If this game is anything like those which went before it this over the weekend, it certainly will be.

Capacity crowd? Tick. A bouncing atmosphere under the lights? Tick. Handshakes and pre-match formalities done? Tick.

We're almost set for kick-off. There's just one box left to tick - go and make a quick brew, folks.

Joleon Lescott is already proving to be a good signing for West Brom, and the former Manchester City defender says he is bringing a little bit of the champions' success with him to The Hawthorns by helping out on the training ground.

"It's nice to be playing again," said Lescott., external "You get a lot more responsibility and the coaches ask me a lot of questions about how we did things at City.

"It's nice to feel the coaches want my opinion, and want my experience. My time at City and England and stuff like that is very useful."

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In his newspaper interview, Baggies chairman Jeremy Peace also revealed that Albion's wages have increased 10-fold in the 12 years Peace has been in charge.

Now Albion's best-paid player is on £50,000 per week, and Pearce said: "It's more than that, if you chuck a load of bits and pieces in.

"We performance-orientate them. They like to have appearance money. We have a retention-of-status bonus so we stay up, they get a certain amount per point, and that's healthy.

"We have 'flex-downs.' If you get relegated, you have the downside covered on the commitment on the wages."

West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace has been talking about a range of issues this week, including the reasons why the club chose Alan Irvine as their new head coach, rather than Tim Sherwood.

In an interview with the Express and Star,, external Peace said: "We first met Alan first in 2009, he came through our interview process very strongly.

"Tim's got a lot of strengths but we thought with Alan's coaching, given the way we're now structured, with Terry (Burton, technical director) at the top, he'd fit in very well.

"We got a frosty reception from the fan-base but Alan's very thorough. I just hope he gets the rub of the green because it's all so marginal."

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Jay, a Birmingham fan: I would love to see Chris Hughton return to St Andrews for a second spell! He worked wonders last time with a below average team. However, with all the financial restraints at the club now, I don't think we'll see him again down the Blues anytime soon.

Here are some stats for you to tuck into ahead of tonight's big match at The Hawthorns:

• Manchester United have never lost at West Brom in the Premier League (W7, D1).

• There has only been one draw in their past 18 top-flight meetings at The Hawthorns - the 5-5 draw in May 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson's last game in charge.

• West Brom have only beaten the Reds once in the Premier League (D3, L12).

We're asking you to rate Louis van Gaal's start to life as manager of Manchester United:

Riccardo Brogelli: I was living in Barcelona while he was manager there. Don't worry, the honeymoon with the press will soon be over and you'll see the ol' obnoxious sarcastic Louis again.

Marc Jones: Arrogance A+

Kisal Munasinghe: With a win, we go fourth, so results are at least B. Also, I see nothing wrong with the attacking philosophy he's trying to impose, so I don't see how Robbie Savage can say 'I can't see one'.

As mentioned earlier (19:27), Swansea boss Garry Monk said Stoke winger Victor Moses should be "ashamed of himself" for diving on Sunday.

Stoke chairman Peter Coates has just been chatting on BBC Radio 5 live and says he is very angry about Moses being called a cheat and said the player went down at speed.

He is also furious with John Hartson's criticism of Moses on BBC Match of the Day 2 and says the former striker spoke like a Swansea fan.

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Radamel Falcao is warming up, despite being named on the Manchester United subs' bench. I'm sure he doesn't mind, though - it's not every day you get to sit on the bench at the highest football ground in England on a night when the remnants of ex-hurricane Gonzalo are making their way across the UK.

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Wayne Rooney has been copping some stick in recent months. There are those who think his performances don't merit his inclusion in either the Manchester United nor the England team, yet the striker has been given full support by his former team-mate, Michael Owen.

"What hasn't he done?" Owen said., external "He's won the league numerous times, he's scored dozens of goals, he's breaking records for Manchester United and England possibly.

"He's probably going to go on to be the all-time goal-scorer for England, get the all-time appearance record and I'm sure he'll have a good go at beating some long standing records at United as well.

"So 100 caps for your country, winning Premier Leagues and things like that, I don't know what more there is for him to achieve."

When you put it like that, Michael...

We're asking you to rate Louis van Gaal's start to life as manager of Manchester United:

Scott Hislen: , externalSignings B+, Tactics B, Attacking play A, Defence C+, Mentality A+ & more importantly Perception A+. Look a big club again.

Siddharth Verma: , externalHe gets a 'B' just for getting rid of Bebe, Nani and Cleverley. 'A' for using the word 'philosophy' in every interview.

Do you follow BBC Sport on Twitter? You might have seen earlier that we sent out a tweet promoting our Gossip Column which said Arsenal's Lukas Podolski, 29, could be a target for Tottenham in the next transfer window.

Well, guess what. That's unlikely to happen. Check out Podolski's response to the tweet: "Hell will freeze over before this transfer would happen."

That ends that story then.