After a far more successful warm weather training camp than the one Pardew organised last year, Darren Moore’s squad has returned from Dubai to travel to the University of Bolton Stadium to take on struggling Bolton Wanderers on Monday evening. After winning three of their first four league games, including a 2-1 opening day win at the Hawthorns, Phil Parkinson’s…
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Norwich City visit the Hawthorns this weekend for a crucial fixture in the race for automatic promotion. There may be another 19 games after this weekend, but the winner of this match will take a huge amount of momentum into the coming weeks, and Darren Moore will be delighted to have the pick of a fully fit squad. Victory for…
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Albion welcome Wigan Athletic to the Hawthorns on Saturday for the second time in ten days for an FA Cup tie that some would consider throwing to allow the squad to focus on the push for promotion. Wholesale changes to the starting eleven for cup ties is something that both the League Cup and, to a lesser extent, the FA…
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Albion travel to Blackburn for their first game of 2019 looking for their fifth successive away victory and to extend their unbeaten run to ten games. The last time that the Baggies managed five away league victories in succession was in 2002 culminating in an injury time penalty by Igor Balis at Valley Parade which meant that Albion’s first promotion…
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Darren Moore’s Baggies face Sheffield Wednesday in the final game of 2018 looking to complete a feat that the club haven’t managed since 1955. It seems unlikely given how last season went, but should Albion find the net on Saturday, they will have scored in every single home league game of the calendar year. The last Albion team to do…
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Halfway through the season and the Baggies sit in third place having gone seven games unbeaten since a mini-slump in October, but the imperious recent form of the top two means that they sit five points off second-placed Norwich City and six behind table-toppers, Leeds United. Ironically, Darren Moore’s team have beaten both teams above them, but may have to…
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