West Brom 2 Queen’s Park Rangers 1 Karlan Grant scored a brace at the Hawthorns on Friday night as Albion came from behind to claim all three points against Queen’s Park Rangers. With many fans, myself included, feeling that Grant should have been withdrawn when Ismaël decided to replace the other two of the front three ten minutes into the…
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West Brom 0 Derby County 0 Twenty-five goal attempts, nine of them on target and 64% possession and yet Albion had to settle for a point against Derby County. After a first half that was only marginally better than the drab affair against Millwall on Saturday, the Baggies threw everything at the County goal in the second half and yet…
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West Brom 1 Millwall 1 For the second game in succession, Valérien Ismaël’s team were made to look very ordinary by a team prepared to match up in formation and intensity, and play a very physical game to make things very difficult for their opponents. Unlike the game at London Road, Albion were unable to claim all three points and,…
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Peterborough United 0 West Brom 1 For the first time this season, an opponent sought to match Albion in intensity and meet the physical battle and, to their credit, Peterborough rose to the challenge and it was a game that could have gone either way. But, like all good title-challenging teams, the Baggies found a way to win. Despite the…
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West Brom 0 Arsenal 6 A six-nil defeat is never fun, but this one was at least understandable given the relative quality and experience of the two teams. However, the fact that the teams were so poorly matched is a symptom of the current state of the game where dreams of glory have been replaced with the need to compete…
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West Brom 4 Sheffield United 0 If the impressive first hour against Luton Town on Saturday was tempered by the travails of the last twenty minutes, last night’s display against Sheffield United will have gone a long way to blowing away any doubts Baggies fans have been harbouring about Val-ball. Only time will tell whether such a comprehensive victory against…
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