Baggies’ new boys are quick to impress

By Ryan Seaton

MIDDLESBRO’
Jones 10

WEST BROM 1
Swift 51

STAR MAN

SWIFT West Brom

TWO West Bromwich Albion arrivals combined to earn a draw at Middlesbrough in an entertaining opening game at the Riverside.
John Swift, who moved to the Hawthorns after his Reading contract expired, was in the perfect place to turn in his first goal for the Baggies five minutes after half-time.
That goal, laid on by another summer recruit Jed Wallace, cancelled out Middlesbrough’s tenth-minute opener from Isaiah Jones.
It was a much better second-half display from West Brom after manager Steve Bruce h...

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