After getting back to winning ways at Stoke, Darren Moore’s team welcome Nottingham Forest to the Hawthorns on Tuesday evening still looking for their first home league win since Boxing Day. Forest were well fancied for promotion at the beginning of the campaign, but the have hovered just above mid-table for most of the season and, after a run of…
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Stoke City 0 West Brom 1 West Bromwich Albion produced a solid performance to take all three points at the Bet365 Stadium and move back to within four points of an automatic promotion spot ahead of Sunday’s Old Farm Derby. Dwight Gayle’s first half winner came from a wonderfully worked free kick taken by debutant, Stefan Johansen, with Ahmed Hegazi…
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Albion completed their first league double of the season at the Bet365 Stadium and made it six wins from their last seven Championship games away from the Hawthorns. It moves the Baggies on to 53 points which is just one behind the successful promotion sides of 2004 and 2008 and two more than Megson’s 2002 team. Game 30 in 2002…
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Having suffered back-to-back defeats for only the second time this season, Darren Moore’s Albion travel to the Bet365 Stadium for yet another televised fixture looking to get all three points to get their promotion campaign back on track. Whether the FA Cup was a distraction or not, it is no longer a consideration for this season and the Baggies face…
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The fallout from Wednesday’s defeat has been predictably critical from a vocal minority of the Baggies’ “twitterati” although the more sanguine commentators are a little more understanding of the issues that Darren Moore faced. It’s easy to criticise Moore’s team selection and substitutions, particularly in hindsight. Ultimately, Albion lost and, therefore, he got it wrong. However, had he played broadly…
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West Brom 1 Brighton 3 (aet) A very youthful Baggies side more than held their own against Premier League opposition but they were ultimately let down by their senior colleagues and a touch of bad luck. Albion came within nine minutes of progressing to the fifth round, but a defensive calamity involving Kyle Bartley and Craig Dawson led to a…
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