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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The Baggies avoided a fourth straight defeat but they still failed to score so extended their scoreless run to four games. That run was matched in the league by Slaven Bilić’s team either side of lockdown in 2020 when they failed to score against Wigan Athletic, Swansea City, Birmingham City and Brentford, although that run was punctuated by a 3-2…
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A third successive 2-0 defeat leaves Albion’s promotion challenge in the balance as the Baggies drop out of the top six for the first time this season. The last time a Baggies team were this low in the second tier table other than during the opening few games of the season was in December 2006 in the early days of…
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