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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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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