Simon Stone
BBC Sport at The Hawthorns

Sam Allardyce has not done any media since his unveiling conference on Thursday.

It is not so much a column as a series of quotes from him in tonight's match programme.

"I want to find out why the players think they haven't got the results they feel they have deserved," he said.

"Small moments can define your season. If you concentrate when these small moments come along and you stop mistakes, then you stop conceding goals. That is the ultimate aim for me in the beginning."

West Bromwich Albion

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Sam Allardyce takes charge of a West Brom side that are 19th in the table, with just a solitary win this season.

The Baggies have seven points after 13 matches and no team has had fewer than eight points after 14 fixtures of a Premier League season and gone on to avoid relegation.

The good news is that they are currently just three points adrift of safety, but they'll need a big win to climb out of the drop zone tonight.

Manchester United

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on BBC Radio 5 Live: "We've been criticised for our starts but the boys were prepared. We've approached the game really well. we've looked at videos and looked at ways to exploit them but also ways to stop them hurting you. It was a great start.

"Scott [McTominay] used to be a striker as a kid. He is a physical monster - he can win in the air, he wins tackle, but he's so strong and he's quick as well. He just ran into the space that we hoped he would get and it was good work by the other players to create the space and good finishes. I have to stop Scott from doing that sometimes - he is an attacking midfielder by nature. But when he sees space in front of him, why stop him? But he's great at shielding his back four.

"The goal will give Dan James a lot of confidence too. He's been biding his time, been patient, been working hard and he's still as fit as a fiddle and I was very, very pleased for him.

"It's 13 games into the season - we're a work in a progress. We're getting better, we're getting fitter and stronger but there's still a few details to nail and let's talk about the title later on."

Leeds United

Leeds midfielder Stuart Dallas to Sky Sports: "We are hurting a lot, we know how much this meant to a lot of people and how big the game is.

"The early goals knocked the wind out of us but we tried to keep going right to the end and tried our best. The way we play we are going to be open to conceding goals.

"We created plenty of chances, it could have been 10-6 there were so many chances. We always believed we would create chances but the two early goals meant we were never really in the game.

"That's the way we play. We have got to stop them getting it to the front men."

Leeds United

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Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa to BBC Sport: "We could have come back throughout the game, there was always opportunities to come back into it.

"We lacked efficiency, they scored their opportuniies and we didn't. In the second half we played on an even keel until the 80th minute. After that they created chances easier than we could.

"At half time the changes were to give more energy in midfield and recover more balls in the middle of the pitch. We were losing by a big margin and I wanted us to strengthen.

"We fought all game, that's an obligation."

Leeds United

Leeds striker Patrick Bamford on BBC Radio 5 Live: "Everyone is frustrated and disappointed but we've got to stick together. That's one of the things that the captains of the groups have said 'we can't play like that, but we stick together and we don't blame anyone or single anyone out, it's a team game. And we as a team haven't performed to the level that we should have today and we've got to take that on the chin'. It's frustrating and difficult to go back in there and look at everyone, after we've not performed to the level that we should.

"They penned us in, they've obviously watched us a lot and saw where to try and push us down an alleyway. We started softly, and that's the most disappointing thing - in a big game like this, a derby, where it means so much to the club and the fans and I'm almost glad the fans weren't allowed in to watch that because it would have felt even worse sending them home after watching that. It's tough because 6-2 - it could have 6-6 if you're an optimistic Leeds fan or it could have been 10-2. We couldn't do ourselves justice.

"I can imagine for the neutral that watching Leeds is great all the time, but to be honest today I'd have much preferred a 1-0 boring win but it is our style of play. It is fine margins, sometimes it works but if you're one yard out of place you get picked off against the best players.

"We're fully behind the manager, we know what he demands and the high levels that he demands. Ultimately if we play exactly the way he wants to we'd win the game - we'd win every match. But we're human and we make errors and sometimes we're not quite at it. It's fine margins. If we win the ball, outside their 18 yard box and it's a great chance to score, but if we're a little bit late on the press we're caught out."

Robbie Savage
Ex-Wales midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

The thing with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - if he loses in the next two or three games it will be Ole out again. This is what I don't understand.

I know they've gone out of the Champions League but they've got a great chance of winning the Europa League, they've got a chance of winning the Carabao Cup, they'll have a chance in the FA Cup and they are in a great position in the league.

What are Manchester United fans now thinking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. It's just bizarre that if they lose again it will be Ole out.

Manchester United

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Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to Sky Sports: "That was fantastic from the first minute. We had a plan to get after them, go forwards when we had the ball and Scott McTominay got two goals in the first three minutes!

"We found a way of getting them going, Just imagine if there were 75,000 people in, it would have gone down in history as one of the great performances against Leeds.

"We had to earn the right by running as much as them, that's a challenge. It could have been 12-4! It's that kind of game.

"I enjoyed it, it was frantic, hectic. No matter what the score is they have a certain attitude or style, if they are 5-0 up or down.

"We are not even at the halfway point, the league position is not something we look at we look at the improvement of the team.

"Now we are getting fitter and stronger. Our fans needed that one."

West Bromwich Albion

New West Brom head coach Sam Allardyce says his friends are calling him 'Red Adair' after the famous firefighter as he embarks on another Premier League salvage mission.

The former England boss has developed a reputation for dragging teams out of relegation trouble in recent years.

He managed it at Sunderland and Crystal Palace after mid-season arrivals.

The 66-year-old also stabilised Everton as their 2017-18 season threatened to spiral out of control.

"I have already had texts from my mates calling me Red Adair," he said. "I can't get away from that tag."

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West Bromwich Albion

Big Sam Allardyce is back in the big time as he takes charge of West Brom for the first time having replaced Slaven Bilic, who was sacked earlier in the week.

Allardyce has only once lost his first Premier League game in charge of a team, with Sunderland in October 2015 (W5, D1).

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Sam Allardyce has resisted any temptation to make changes for his first game in the Baggies dugout.

The West Brom team who battled resolutely for a point at Manchester City in midweek - in Slaven Bilic's final game in charge - all retain their places.

West Brom XI: Johnstone, Furlong, Gibbs, Ajayi, O'Shea, Livermore, Phillips, Diangana, Gallagher, Sawyers, Grant.

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There is still no Ross Barkley for Aston Villa as this derby comes too soon for the England midfielder's impending return from a hamstring injury.

Villa boss Dean Smith makes two changes from the team held 0-0 by Burnley on Thursday as Douglas Luiz and Matty Cash return from suspension to replace Marvelous Nakamba and Ahmed Elmohamady.

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Targett, Mings, Hause, Cash, McGinn, Grealish, Luiz, El Ghazi, Watkins, Traore.

Oh, so you handed over to me on Saturday after doing a 7-0 and pass the keyboard over today after a 6-2?

THANKS THOMAS!

I'll bring you the reaction from that crazy game but here to guide you through the return of Big Sam is Shamoon Hafez.

Robbie Savage
Ex-Wales midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

If we'd walked away from this game with it being a record score in the Premier League you wouldn't have been surprised.

It could have 10-12 against five or six easily.

I've got to say it was naive from Leeds.

Just the 43 shots on goal in that game.

Robbie Savage
Ex-Wales midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

It was an incredible game, in an incredible season. What a game of football!

Manchester United's title challenge is on.

Manchester United are third as it stands, Leeds 14th.

Well I'd watch that again.

Brilliant, baffling, bizarre, brutal game.