An eighth consecutive away defeat for Ryan Mason’s team means the “L” column has ticked over into double figures, the most defeats at this stage of a second tier season since 1995/96. That season was also the last time any Baggies team lost eight away league games in succession, although in that campaign, it corresponded with a run of 13…
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You never know what you are going to get from Ryan Mason’s Albion, and on Friday night against in-form Sheffield United, we got a slightly nervy but generally competent first half followed by two excellent goals at the start of the second and a mature performance to see the game out. It was also a first clean sheet in eight…
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Another desperate first half performance ultimately condemned Ryan Mason’s team to a seventh consecutive away defeat. The Baggies were the better team in the second half but fell short of another comeback – Karlan Grant was rewarded for a good display with his first goal of the season while Nat Phillips partly made up for his first half blunder with…
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There was no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for the Baggies at Loftus Road on Saturday as they fell for a sixth successive away defeat. They remain without back-to-back victories this season – indeed, if the last time Albion won successive games in the same campaign was in September 2024! Albion conceded late in a first…
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If ever there was a game of two halves, this was it. Ryan Mason’s team were laboured and abject in the first period having conceded twice in the opening eleven minutes while, after the break, two goals in the opening seven minutes of the second half brought them level and they dominated the remainder of the match and scored the…
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More frustration for the Baggies as chances go begging and a game that should have been won long before Blues scored ended up as a draw. It leaves Ryan Mason’s team in 17th place but remarkably only five points outside the top six. Although the criticism of Mason will persist in some quarters, there is little that can be put…
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