Monday saw the expected announcement that 32-year-old Austrian international, Andi Weimann, had joined Albion on loan from Bristol City for the remainder of the season. Weimann’s interview suggested that he had put pen to paper on Friday but, perhaps because the announcement had to wait for confirmation that the permanent transfer of Taylor Gardner-Hickman in the opposite direction was complete,…
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West Bromwich Albion 4 Blackburn Rovers 1 Carlos Corberán’s team brushed a poor Blackburn Rovers team aside on Saturday afternoon with a comfortable 4-1 victory that could easily have been many more. It may not have been as convincing as the 8-0 home win predicted by a visiting supporter I met walking to the Hawthorns, but it was as good…
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West Bromwich Albion 4 Aldershot Town 1 Carlos Corberán’s Albion secured their place in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup with a comfortable victory over National League side, Aldershot Town, at the Hawthorns. It was almost as good an afternoon as the Spaniard could have hoped for as his chosen starting line up all but ensured the victory with…
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West Bromwich Albion 1 Leeds United 0 Carlos Corberán’s Albion rose to the occasion in front of the biggest attendance of the season at the Hawthorns to record a victory over Leeds United. It may not have been the most sparkling attacking display but it was a determined defensive performance that produced a twelfth clean sheet of the season and…
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West Bromwich Albion 1 Norwich City 0 After a disappointing performance at the Riverside on Saturday, Albion returned to form at the Hawthorns on Boxing Day and recorded a victory against Norwich City that was far closer than it should have been. That the Baggies somehow didn’t secure the victory with a second goal meant that it needed an excellent…
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West Bromwich Albion 1 Stoke City 1 Frustration has been a recurring theme this season and it was certainly the overwhelming feeling on leaving the Hawthorns on Sunday afternoon. This was a match that Albion should have won, but a combination of excellent goalkeeping, a freak goal and, for me, a lack of real ambition until the last twenty minutes…
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