Grady Diangana’s goal earned the Baggies a seventh successive home victory without conceding a goal for the first time since 2002. Gary Megson’s team won the first seven home games of the year starting with a 4-0 victory over Stokport County and ending with a 5-0 win over Portsmouth – the five home games in between were all won 1-0…
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Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 28 games
A ninth defeat of the season and a third under Carlos Corberán leaves the Baggies in sixth spot ahead of Saturday’s games, but they could drop as low as tenth by the end of the weekend such is the tight nature of the Championship. This campaigns total of 41 points from 28 games is the lowest by a second tier…
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Victory at Luton from two goals down makes it nine wins from the last ten games for the Baggies and also moves them into the top six. They are joint top of the ten-game form table with Burnley, their next league opponents. Saturday’s game is the first time that any Albion side have scored three goals in a game at…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 26 games
Albion’s victory over Reading means that they have recorded five successive home victories for the first time since the end of the 2018/19 season under Jimmy Shan – the home leg play-off win over Aston Villa technically made it six, albeit none of us were celebrating a victory that night! Moreover, Carlos Corberán’s team haven’t conceded in those five games,…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 25 games
Albion’s seventh win in eight games lifted them to ninth place in the Championship table and to within a point of the play-off places. Other than after the opening game of the season, it is the Baggies’ highest league position since February. Despite the recovery in form in recent weeks, it remains Albion’s worst start to a second tier season…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 24 games
The Baggies sixth victory in seven games moved them up into the top half of the table, albeit for just a couple of hours until Luton Town’s victory over Norwich City moved them into 12th above Corberán’s team. Brandon Thomas-Asante’s superb second half goal made it five goals from substitutes in the last four games which suggests that the man…
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