I’m not quite ready to re-introduce the “promotion challenge” moniker just yet, but if Albion can repeat that level of performance in every game remaining this season, the top six is within reach. However, they are still nine points worse off than any other second tier Albion side this century, and have scored four fewer goals than even Megson’s goal…
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A point from a dramatic comeback against Huddersfield Town finally brings up the half century of points for the Baggies, a tally they reached after just 23 games in their previous Championship season. I suggested in my match preview that Albion could probably only afford to drop seven points from their remaining eleven games if they were to secure a…
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A first win on the road for Albion since 4th December, the last time that Taylor Gardner-Hickman started in midfield, brings to an end a run of six successive away defeats and gives Steve Bruce his first win as Baggies boss at the expense of one of his former clubs. Karlan Grant’s eleventh and twelfth goals of the season were…
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The title of this update is no mistake – Albion’s promotion challenge is now over. A second home defeat of the season leaves the Baggies some eight points shy of the top six with twelve games remaining. Not insurmountable in itself, but when you take into account the fact that there are another six clubs between Albion and sixth spot,…
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After almost eight hours of football without a goal, Albion finally scored but they were unable to hold on and fell to an eighth defeat in eleven games in all competitions to leave them still six points off the table and some nine points worse off than any other second tier Baggies team since 1999/2000. It is Albion’s tenth away…
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Having started the campaign with a club record run of unbeaten games, and unbeaten home games, the class of 2021/22 have now matched another club record, that of five successive games without a goal. This season is the sixth time that particular “feat” has been achieved but only the second time that all five games have been in the league.…
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