After successive matches against three of this season’s top five, Albion take a trip to the home of the reigning champions on Sunday on a run of five games without a win, and having managed just two wins in their last nineteen Premier League games.
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Guardiola visits the Hawthorns for the first time looking to re-ignite City’s season
At the start of the season, few would’ve expected Albion to go into this fixture on better form than Manchester City, but based on the last six results, that is indeed the case.
Read MoreCan Pulis’s unbeaten record against Liverpool continue?
The Baggies travel to Anfield for the televised game on Saturday evening looking to extend their four match unbeaten run. Liverpool’s unbeaten run stretches back to August comprising eight matches in all competitions, with the draw against Manchester United on Monday bringing a run of five successive victories to an end.
Read MoreUnbeaten Spurs visit the Hawthorns
The first of Albion’s tricky trio of successive games against three of the Premier League’s top four is against Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur at the Hawthorns on Saturday. The Argentine has guided Spurs to an impressive unbeaten league start culminating in an impressive victory over leaders, Manchester City, before the international break.
Read MoreBaggies look to keep Black Cats waiting for first home points
Tony Pulis takes his Albion side to the Stadium of Light on Saturday look for a second victory on the road this season, while Sunderland are rock bottom of the table still looking for their first points of the Premier League season on their own patch.
Read MorePulis goes “home” for game 1,000
It is, perhaps, somewhat fitting that Tony Pulis’s 1,000th game as a manager is against the club he led for almost half of those games (464), Stoke City. It is also fitting, and certainly encouraging for Baggies fans, that it is a fixture that he has never lost.
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