It may only be a slither of hope, but Sam Allardyce and his team will be hoping to thicken that strand a little this weekend as Graham Potter’s Brighton and Hove Albion visit the Hawthorns. The Baggies’ record against the other Albion is good – the Seagulls have never won a league game at the Hawthorns and the real Albion…
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Saturday will be just the 26th meeting between the Baggies and the “other Albion” and the 22nd in the league. Albion have never lost a home league game to Brighton, with the Seagulls’ two victories at the Hawthorns coming in cup competitions, most recently on their last visit in the 2019 FA Cup. The only previous Premier League meeting between…
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Albion have lost just three of their last thirty league meetings with Burnley dating back to March 1993. Two of those defeats came at Turf Moor, both in 2007 with the Baggies most recent league defeat at Burnley coming on the opening day of the 2007/08 season when Kevin Phillips’ opener was overturned by a goal from Michael Duff and…
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Albion travel to Turf Moor this weekend to take on Burnley for the first of a run of four “winnable” fixtures that represent the last slim hope of survival. The Baggies need a significant points haul from these games, no fewer than eight in my opinion, and even taking twelve won’t to be enough to move them out of the…
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With hope fading fast for the Baggies, Ole Gunnar Solskjær brings his Manchester United side to the Hawthorns on Sunday looking to narrow the gap to their city rivals at the top of the Premier League table. Sam Allardyce can take some encouragement from the fact that Albion were unfortunate to lose the reverse fixture in November, albeit that was…
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While the reverse fixture immediately brings to mind Albion’s 5-3 win in 1978, it is the 5-5 draw in 2013 that has become the most memorable equivalent at the Hawthorns. That match, of course, was Sir Alex Ferguson’s last match as a manager and one which looked as if it was going to plan with nine minutes to go. The…
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