West Bromwich Albion manager Steve Clarke has insisted that he is not panicking over the club's run of three consecutive defeats.

The Baggies have dropped from fourth place down to sixth in the Premier League table but Clarke has claimed that he would have taken the spot before the start of the season.

"If you took out the defeats we've had and spread them over a course of the season, everyone would be saying we are doing fantastic," BBC Sport quotes Clarke as saying.

"If I had been offered the top six in mid-December, I would have been pleased with the points tally we've got. But it is up to us to make sure the bad run stops now and we start to pick up more points."

West Brom take on West Ham United this weekend.