After four league games without a win, Albion finally earned all three points and completed their first league double in the process. It moves the onto 45 points from 27 games, one more that Megson’s 2001/02 team had at the same time. Valérien Ismaël’s team have also set a new club record of 13 league games unbeaten from the start…
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A sixth defeat on the road for Valérien Ismaël’s Albion means that this is the worst start of a second tier campaign this century with Tony Mowbray’s 2006/07 side having earned one more point from 26 games. Albion have scored just two goals in their last seven away games, their worst such run since 2014 when they went four away…
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An incident-packed but ultimately frustrating afternoon at the Hawthorns leaves Valérien Ismaël’s Albion team somewhat off the pace in comparison to their previous 21st century promotion campaigns. Only in Tony Mowbray’s first season at the helm did the Baggies have a worse record at this stage of the season. However, the draw does mean that this campaign has now matched…
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Another frustrating defeat at Derby means that this season’s Baggies now have the second fewest points at this stage in their Premier League promotion challenges this century. Only Tony Mowbray’s 2006/07 side had fewer points after 24 games but they were about to go on a run of eight wins in nine games starting with a 4-2 win over Preston…
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By the next time that an Albion side visits Oakwell, 75 years will have passed since their previous victory at that stadium thanks to a third goalless draw in five games for Valérien Ismaël’s team. It was a game that the Baggies should have won comfortably but a combination of superb last ditch defending and poor finishing meant that the…
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A second successive victory moved Albion to within three points of the top two after Bournemouth were beaten at home by a resurgent Blackburn Rovers who remain just a point behind the Baggies in fourth place. 40 points from 22 games Albion’s fourth best tally in the 21st century and only once have they not been promoted having reached 40…
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