Josh Maja’s seventh goal in seven league games was not enough to prevent Albion from going down to their first defeat of the season, but results elsewhere meant that the Baggies maintained top spot in the Championship. With Mowatt also scoring, Karlan Grant remains Albion’s only league goalscorer this season whose surname does not begin with ‘M’. Despite the defeat,…
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Carlos Corberán’s Baggies made it five wins and a draw from their opening six games with a 1-0 victory over Plymouth Argyle to make it the best league start from an Albion side since Ossie Ardiles’ team matched the achievement in 1992. No Baggies team has won the first six league games of a campaign and only two other Albion…
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A fifth goal of the season from Josh Maja and a superb double from Alex Mowatt leaves Karlan Grant as the only one of the Baggies’ Championship goalscorers this campaign not to have a surname beginning with ‘M’. Paddy McNair is waiting in the wings to join them! Perhaps more importantly, the 3-0 win puts the Baggies top of the…
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Carlos Corberán’s team moved up to second place in the table thanks to a 1-0 victory over Swansea City that saw them reach ten points from twelve at the start of the season. It was a victory that the Baggies richly deserved although their failure to take a number of excellent chances meant that the closing stages were a little…
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A fourth goal of the season for Josh Maja proved to be the winner for the Baggies after Lewis Koumas had equalised Karlan Grant’s first league Albion goal for almost two years, although he did net in the FA Cup game at Chesterfield in January 2023. The victory left Albion in fourth place with seven points having won their opening…
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Albion and Leeds pretty much cancelled each other out in the first match at the Hawthorns to leave both sides unbeaten in the league, and both probably happy with the point. The last time the Baggies opened their home league campaign with a goalless draw was in 1975 when John Giles’ team drew 0-0 with Chelsea – they would go…
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