Albion are currently in the midst of a four match unbeaten run against last season’s Premier League champions. They earned their first point under Sam Allardyce at Anfield on Boxing Day and, in their last Premier League season, they drew 2-2 with the Reds at the Hawthorns under Darren Moore, earned a 0-0 draw at Anfield in the league earlier…
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After three wins from four games, Albion had then failed to win any of their next three matches and were back in 19th place after a 4-0 defeat at Middlesbrough. With just four matches to go, it looked a tough ask for the Baggies with two of those against second-placed Arsenal and third-place Manchester United. However, next up was a…
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With just one win in twelve games at Arsenal in the Premier League era, the Baggies have a pretty dreadful record in that particular part of north London in recent years. Even if you look back to Albion’s more successful eras, Highbury was never a happy hunting ground – not only did the Baggies win just ten of 54 matches…
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Of all the games in the run up to the Great Escape, game 34 is perhaps the one that is most forgotten. Bryan Robson, who had started his tenure at Albion with a 2-1 home defeat to his former club, returned to the Riverside on 23rd April 2005 with the Baggies in their best form of the season having drawn…
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Almost ten years have passed since Wolves last visited the Hawthorns, but Monday will see the 150th league meeting between two local rivals who first met in the Football League more than 130 years ago in December 1888. While Albion had beaten their Black Country Rivals twice in the FA Cup before league football started, it wasn’t until their seventh…
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Game 33 of the 2004/05 campaign saw Albion travel to White Hart Lane for what was the fourth meeting between the sides that season with the sides having been drawn together in the FA Cup. Both games at the Hawthorns had finished in 1-1 draws although Martin Jol’s side had been victorious in the cup replay in north London a…
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