It is, perhaps, a little too early to get too excited, but James Morrison is building something very special at the Hawthorns. Not only has his team proved that they can play attractive, decisive, attacking football, but they can also scrap and defend like lions when the need arises. The level of performance that the ten men achieved in the…
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Albion recorded their first clean sheet of the season at home to Watford, thereby securing another three points in what was a far from comfortable afternoon at the Hawthorns. The Baggies probably just about deserved the points, but the visitors had more attempts on goal (11 to 9) albeit the hosts edged the xG stats (0.96 to 0.83). It was…
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There was a level of frustration at the end of Wednesday’s game that was similar to that felt under Ryan Mason – a game that Albion should have won but didn’t. There was a difference, however. James Morrison’s Albion looked much closer to breaking down the opposition than Mason’s team did for most of the time, and the level of…
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James Morrison’s team were beaten for the first time in the Championship this season at Middlesbrough, the sixth successive defeat against the Teessiders. It was also Albion’s first league defeat in August since 2023 when they were beaten at Blackburn on the opening day of that campaign. Since then, they had played eleven league matches in the eighth month of…
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An excellent performance from James Morrison’s team made it three wins on the bounce at the start of Albion’s domestic season, the last two in the league against teams fancied for promotion putting the Baggies in second place in the fledgling Championship table. Of course, it is very early days – Ryan Mason’s team won the first two games of…
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For the third season in succession, Albion start the season with a victory. Let’s hope that this season it can lead to a better overall campaign. It is something of a surprise – since the second tier went to 24 teams in 1988, Albion had only won the opening league game of a campaign in that division on three occasions…
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