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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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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