Loan report: Players in action in the EFL

This week’s loan report is a little quieter than usual given the mid-season winter breaks taking place across a number of Europe’s leagues.

There was however plenty to report from the EFL, with five Albion players in action.

James Beadle was an unused substitute for his new loan club Sheffield Wednesday, as they lost 4-0 to Southampton, while Yasin Ayari also didn’t come off the bench in Blackburn’s 4-1 defeat at West Brom – although Andrew Moran was on hand to provide the assist for Rovers’ consolation goal. 

Jeremy Sarmiento played for the final 22 minutes of Ipswich Town’s 2-1 win over Sunderland, having cut short his loan deal with West Brom to join the Tractor Boys earlier this month.

Carl Rushworth’s Swansea City drew 2-2 with Birmingham City in what marked former Albion coach Luke Williams’s first league game in charge of the Swans, as well as Tony Mowbray’s first match in the dugout for the Blues.

Marc Leonard played the full 90 minutes as Northampton Town continued their fine run of form that has seen them climb from 21st spot at the end of October to ninth. The Scottish midfielder has now made 77 appearances for the Cobblers across the 18 months he has spent on loan with them. 

Ed Turns made his first League One appearance since the end of November as he came on for the final ten minutes of Leyton Orient’s shock 3-0 win over league leaders Portsmouth. That result propelled the O’s up to tenth in the table.

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Stuttgart’s first game back from the winter break in the Bundesliga didn’t go to plan as they lost 3-1 away at Borussia Monchengladbach, with Deniz Undav unable to add to his tally of nine league goals this season despite playing the full 90 minutes. 

Finally, Kacper Kozlowski played for 64 minutes in Vitesse Arnhem’s 0-0 draw with FC Utrecht in the Dutch Eredivisie.