West Bromwich Albion manager Alan Irvine’s decision to tinker with his side for their midweek Capital One Cup game against Bournemouth was vindicated after his side were victorious against struggling Leicester City on Saturday.

The Albion manager opted to rest 10 of the players that drew 2-2 with Crystal Palace in their last Premier League game for the defeat against the Cherries in the cup on Tuesday night.

But Irvine recalled those players that were left out in the week for the short trip to Filbert Way, where they recorded their first win since the end of September thanks to a bizarre own goal from Esteban Cambiasso on 47 minutes.

“I’m not satisfied with what happened on Tuesday night. I’m still hurting about that,” said Irvine. 

“But the fact is had we played the same team on Tuesday night, going down to Bournemouth, perhaps going to extra time, we would have been risking having problems to deal with at the end of this game.

“I’m delighted with this result when you consider Man United, Arsenal, Everton and Burnley have all been here and none of them have won, then it was always going to be a really tough place to get a victory.”

For Leicester the defeat means they have now gone five games without a win since beating Manchester United 5-3 in late September, failing to score in four of those games.

But manager Nigel Pearson remained optimistic despite having seen his side’s unbeaten run at home come to an end. 

He said: “You could argue we were slightly unlucky today in what was always going to be a relatively tight game. 

“On the back of some of the results that we’ve had we needed a more solid performance, I thought we had that, but didn’t quite create enough clear-cut opportunities.

“Ultimately though it’s going to be about quality at times and we’ve not really shown enough in the final third whether it be the final ball or the finish. ”In a game of very few chances we probably had the better openings but we haven’t been able to take them.”