Nat Phillips wants to repay Albion for the opportunity they gave him this summer – and he has already started doing just that.

The big centre-half pounced on a goalkeeping mistake to score the only goal in the Baggies’ Championship win at Stoke last weekend to continue a good start for himself personally and the team.

“Throughout my career so far I’ve been here, there and everywhere on loan so when West Brom let me know early doors that they wanted to commit to me it was a nice feeling and gave me a lot of confidence,’’ said Phillips.

“I’ve wanted to repay that so I am just doing my best to try and put in as many positive and good performances as possible.”

Reflecting on his goal at the bet365 Stadium, he said: “It was quite early in the game so I wasn’t sure whether it was going to be

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