The Baggies’ first win on the road since mid-January has kept alive their faint hopes of a top six spot as they now sit three points off 6th place with five games remaining. There are, however, four teams between Albion and Blackburn Rovers and sixth, although two of them, Sunderland and Norwich City, must visit the Hawthorns before the end…
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Stoke City v West Bromwich Albion; Bet365 Stadium, Saturday 15th April 2023, 3pm This weekend’s fixture is Albion’s final Saturday 3pm kick off of the campaign and will be just the 15th league fixture of the season to be played at the “traditional” time for football, less than a third of matches. After the way the results went over the…
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West Bromwich Albion 2 Queen’s Park Rangers 2 When QPR visited the Hawthorns on 22nd June 2020, the result was the same but, with it being enough for the Baggies to win promotion and there being no fans in the stadium due to the COVID pandemic, it was a very different situation. I mention it because that season, Albion “bottled…
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A 2-2 home draw with QPR means that Albion’s 40 game record from this season now matches that from the previous campaign with fifteen wins, twelve draws and thirteen defeats and 11th place in the table. Last season, Steve Bruce’s team could only secure a further ten points from the remaining six games to finish tenth. Results elsewhere on Easter…
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West Bromwich Albion v Queen’s Park Rangers; The Hawthorns, Saturday 10th April 2023, 3pm Carlos Corberán suggested before Friday’s game that the club’s financial problems would not be a distraction to the players – maybe it would have been helpful if that had taken some note. The performance at the New York Stadium on Friday suggested that the players didn’t…
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Albion suffered just their third ever defeat to Rotherham United and it is the first time that the Millers have scored three times against Albion and the first time that they have beaten the Baggies my more than one goal. It leaves Carlos Corberán’s team still five points off the play-offs with just seven games to go. The Baggies probably…
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