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…
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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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Albion’s winning run came to an end at Coventry City as Viktor Gyökeres’ stoppage time penalty earned all three points for the Sky Blues leaving the Baggies in 16th place still five points off the play-offs and five points above the bottom three. Since the 2-0 defeat to Sheffield United in Corberán’s opening game, the two goals that Albion have…
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The last time Albion won five games in a row, they were top of the Championship and flying under Slaven Bilić. They actually won six games in a row from 4th November to 8th December 2019, a run that was ended when the Croat opted to rest his two star players in Pereira and Diangana for the trip to Cardiff…
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A fourth successive victory for Carlos Corberán’s team lefts them up to 17th place in the table on 26 points from 21 games which is a better tally than any of Albion’s second tier teams between 1989 and 1997. It is the first time that the Baggies have won four successive league games for two years, with the previous occasion…
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A wonderful goal from Brandon Thomas-Asante secured Albion’s third successive victory and a third successive clean sheet. It is the first time that the Baggies have recorded three wins in a row since the early days of Valérien Ismaël’s reign when they won four league games in succession in August 2021, albeit there was a 6-0 home defeat by Arsenal…
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