Swansea City 2 West Brom 1 Despite the outcry on social media, I’m not expecting any drastic changes from Valérien Ismaël following Albion’s second defeat of the season at Swansea. It was a disappointing performance from the Baggies, particularly given their fantastic start, and they can have few complaints about the result. Having said that, it was a game of…
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Valérien Ismaël’s Albion fell to their second defeat of the season at Swansea but the start to this campaign is still the joint fourth best of the century. In the second tier, Megson’s 2003/04 team had 28 points at this stage and Slaven Bilić’s side had 26 while Steve Clarke’s 2012/13 side found themselves 3rd in the Premier League after…
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Valérien Ismaël and his team return to south Wales for the second time in just over three weeks on Wednesday evening hoping for a similar result and performance to their last visit. The 4-0 demolition of Cardiff City at the end of last month was arguably the Baggies’ best performance of the season, and a repeat a few miles down…
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West Brom 1 Birmingham City 0 It was a tough watch for most of the 90 minutes, but a sweet strike from the in-form Karlan Grant was enough to claim all three points in Albion’s only home local derby of the season and send them to the top of the Championship, albeit for less than 24 hours. It was a…
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A hard earned three points on Friday night moved Albion back to the top of the Championship table once again, albeit another win for Bournemouth saw them regain top spot on Saturday. Nonetheless, no Albion side this century has had more points from their opening dozen league games of a campaign and even Gary Megson’s famously stingy defence had conceded…
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Having had a fortnight to reflect on their first league defeat of the season, Ismaël’s Albion return to action on Friday evening with the visit of Lee Bowyer’s Birmingham City to the Hawthorns. It is the Baggies fourth Friday night fixture of the season, it would have been their fifth had the trip to Peterborough not been pushed back by…
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