West Brom 1 Birmingham City 0 It was a tough watch for most of the 90 minutes, but a sweet strike from the in-form Karlan Grant was enough to claim all three points in Albion’s only home local derby of the season and send them to the top of the Championship, albeit for less than 24 hours. It was a…
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Cardiff City 0 West Brom 4 Valérien Ismaël’s Albion side set a new club record of ten games unbeaten at the start of a league campaign as they trounced Cardiff City on their home soil. It was also the Baggies’ first win in the Welsh capital for almost 47 years and moved them back to the top of the table…
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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 With many fans, myself included, feeling that Grant should have been withdrawn when Ismaël decided to replace the other two of the front three ten minutes into the…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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It’s very easy to to look at the above question and answer with a resounding “no”, but the answer is probably “it depends”. If Albion are lucky with injuries, something that they haven’t been so far, the squad they have should be good enough to get the club promoted. Perhaps the more enlightening questions is “could they have done more?”…
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