West Brom manager Tony Mowbray has insisted he will think long and hard before deciding on his team for Saturday's clash with Manchester City.Mowbray could look to make changes following his side's 4-0 hammering by fellow strugglers Sunderland last Saturday.

The Baggies boss is looking to end a run which has seen his team go ten games without a win, sending them to the bottom of the Premier League.

The club find themselves adrift at the foot of the table, with six points separating themselves and safety.

Sunday's match with City represents another must-win game for the Baggies, with Mark Hughes' men sitting perilously close to the drop zone.

Summer signing Gianni Zuiverloon is one player who could find himself dropped for the City game and the £3.25million defender could be joined by Abdoulaye Meite, Jonas Olsson, Paul Robinson, Chris Brunt and Luke Moore.

Leon Barnett, Marek Cech, Filipe Teixeira, Kim Do-Heon and Roman Bedner are all in line as possible replacements.

"It's my job to talk to my players and see what their mentality is and generally they say they are fine because it's very difficult for footballers to say they need a break," the Baggies boss told the Express and Star.

"You have to make your own judgement as a manager to know when to keep them going or give them a breather.

"It's important not to have a knee-jerk reaction after one game. I know it's not one result, it's ten.

"But why would you change the team that played well at Wigan and battled for 87 minutes at Stoke.

"Yet, after a 4-0 defeat at Sunderland, if I was a player on the periphery I would be looking at the manager and asking 'what is he going to do now?'.

"Sometimes you need to give people opportunities but I have always said to them that I need to see something in training.

"I need to see a hunger and desire to show they want to be in the team and not just go through the motions."

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