Everton are Albion’s second most common opponent (behind Aston Villa) and this week will see the 169th meeting between the two sides. However, it will be the first such meeting to be played on a Thursday. The Baggies have only played 60 matches on a Thursday in their entire history and, if you exclude Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New…
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Norwich City 3 West Brom 2 After the heartbreak of a late equaliser in the match against Crystal Palace, the Baggies faced another crucial match against a relegation rival as they travelled to Carrow Road to take on Norwich City in game 26, the side immediately above them in the table. It certainly felt like a “must-win” fixture, or at…
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Saturday will be just the 26th meeting between the Baggies and the “other Albion” and the 22nd in the league. Albion have never lost a home league game to Brighton, with the Seagulls’ two victories at the Hawthorns coming in cup competitions, most recently on their last visit in the 2019 FA Cup. The only previous Premier League meeting between…
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West Brom 2 Crystal Palace 2 After Baggies boss Bryan Robson recorded his first league victory against Manchester City, we had to wait nine days for Albion’s next league game. On the Saturday in between, Tottenham Hotspur had been the visitors to the Hawthorns for a fourth round RA Cup tie which finished 1-1 after a Jermain Defoe penalty equalised…
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Albion have lost just three of their last thirty league meetings with Burnley dating back to March 1993. Two of those defeats came at Turf Moor, both in 2007 with the Baggies most recent league defeat at Burnley coming on the opening day of the 2007/08 season when Kevin Phillips’ opener was overturned by a goal from Michael Duff and…
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West Brom 2 Manchester City 0 While a repeat of the Great Escape looks very unlikely for this season’s Baggies, I thought it would be nice to reflect on how the Albion side of 16 years ago did manage to achieve the impossible. In this series, I will provide a game by game account of the latter stages of that…
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