The Baggies ended their goal drought scoring twice at the CBS Arena and went on to claim all three points despite conceding their first ever goal at Coventry City’s new stadium. A fourth away victory of the season moves the Baggies back into third place, at least until QPR’s match on Sunday, but their points tally from 21 games is…
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Another frustrating goalless draw puts Albion onto 34 points from 20 games, their second lowest tally in a second tier campaign this century. Only in 2006, when a 3-1 defeat at Hillsborough saw Tony Mowbray’s team drop to 10th place, have the Baggies endured a worse start to a Championship campaign. That proved to be the lowest point in that…
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A point at Blackpool at least brought a run of defeats on the road to an end, but only once have Albion been promoted to the Premier League with fewer points from 19 games than this campaign’s total of 33. That was in the 2001/2002 season when Gary Megson’s side had just 32 points at this stage. The only statistic…
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The Baggies lose their 18th game of a 21st century campaign for the first time, but more importantly for this season’s chances of promotion, it is their fourth successive defeat on the road and it leaves them eight points adrift of the automatic promotion places. It is the first time that Albion have lost four successive away league games in…
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Grady Diangana’s first goal for more than a year earned Albion a point to maintain their unbeaten record in another frustrating afternoon for Baggies fans. Diangana’s last goal was the wonderful opener at Goodison Park in September last year. The point means that Albion have lost more ground to both Fulham and Bournemouth and they are now six points adrift…
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In front of one of the smallest away followings at the Hawthorns I can remember since Wimbledon visited in September 2001, Albion secured a fourth successive home win, thanks to a seventh goal in eight games and a seventh clean sheet of the campaign for Sam Johnstone, to keep them within four points of second-placed Fulham. 31 points from 16…
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