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Nigerian banned for three matches.
Nigeria striker Osaze Odemwingie has promised to make up for his dismissal at Fulham Saturday when he returns from a three-match ban.
The Nigeria international was dismissed in the first-half for kicking out at Fulham defender Sascha Riether as the Baggies slid to their first Barclays Premier League defeat of the season.
The score was 1-0 to Fulham at the time of Odemwingie's misdemeanour after Dimitar Berbatov bagged his first goal for the Cottagers. The home side then went on to score twice more against 10 men through a Berbatov penalty and a late volley from Steve Sidwell, and Odemwingie will now be looking to make up for his petulant act.
"It made things harder for my team. One man advantage is a big advantage," he said in an interview.
"Hopefully when I come back playing I will compensate my team with some good actions and contributions to the next win.
"As a team we need to bounce back. We are a united group and I had encouragement from my team-mates to forget about it. I will be more worried if it happened more often than one or two times in my career."
And the 31-year-old former Lokomotiv Moscow striker also insisted he will not let the red mist descend in the future, even if he feels he has been hard done by.
He said: "It is something I will learn and hopefully it won't repeat itself and next time I play in an important game for the club, I hope I remember this even if someone provokes me or not.
"I'll try to keep my cool and not react. I feel it was too harsh. I didn't lead with my studs, I just wanted to foul because I felt there was a foul against me that wasn't noticed when I wasn't far from the linesman.
"That moment happens, it doesn't happen often, but for some reason I lost my temper and I regret it. Now I'm thinking about bouncing back for my team."
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