Albion are currently on a dreadful run of results against Southampton having lost the last five meetings in all competitions, including a pair of defeats in 2018 when the Saints beat Pardew’s Albion in successive games at the Hawthorns in league and cup. The Baggies last beat Southampton at St Mary’s on New Year’s Eve 2016 when Hal Robson-Kanu’s wonder…
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With Albion needing to average at least two points per game in their remaining nine fixtures to have a chance of maintaining their Premier League status, Sam Allardyce takes his team to one of the hardest places to go in England’s top flight at the moment. Since Thomas Tuchel took charge at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea have won ten and drawn…
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Chelsea are one of eleven teams that have shared at least ten seasons in the Premier League with Albion, and they are the only one of them that the Baggies are yet to beat away from home. Albion’s last win at Stamford Bridge was some 27 years ago in November 1983 when a Garry Thompson goal was enough to see…
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Were there any fans at Saturday’s match between Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion, both sets of fans would be looking at the opposition bench and reflecting on what a good job the opposing manager did in their time at the club. Allardyce definitely left the Eagles in a better place than when he took over (ironically from another future…
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Albion are on a five match winless streak against Crystal Palace, six if you include the Premier League Asia Trophy game in the summer of 2017, but I choose not to! Their last win over the Eagles came at Selhurst Park in August 2016 when Salomón Rondón (pictured) scored the only goal of the game. More recently, of course, Selhurst…
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While many will feel that Albion’s hopes of survival are already lost, even the most optimistic will feel that Sunday’s match with Newcastle United is a must-win fixture if Sam Allardyce’s team are to have any chance of retaining their Premier League status. Steve Bruce’s side have endured a poor run of form of late and have slipped from a…
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