Albion welcome Wigan Athletic to the Hawthorns on Saturday for the second time in ten days for an FA Cup tie that some would consider throwing to allow the squad to focus on the push for promotion. Wholesale changes to the starting eleven for cup ties is something that both the League Cup and, to a lesser extent, the FA…
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Blackburn Rovers 2 West Brom 1 Darren Moore’s team suffered a New Year’s Day hangover at Ewood Park as they went down to their first defeat since 3rd November. After a relatively even first half, Rovers scored two goals early in the second half and, while Rodriguez pulled a goal back from the spot after Harvey Barnes was brought down,…
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Defeat at Ewood Park brings the Baggies’ nine match unbeaten run to an end and they slip down to 4th place. However, Leeds United also lost which means that the gap to the top of the table remains at five points but a draw for Norwich means that Albion are now three points off the top two. In every successful…
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All Baggies fans will have been relieved when the news emerged yesterday that Jay Rodriguez’s red card had been rescinded. The FA disciplinary panel sat on New Year’s Eve and concluded that Rodriguez did not stamp on Marco Matias. What puzzles me is why there has been no secondary charge brought against Matias for simulation. In May 2017, the FA…
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Albion travel to Blackburn for their first game of 2019 looking for their fifth successive away victory and to extend their unbeaten run to ten games. The last time that the Baggies managed five away league victories in succession was in 2002 culminating in an injury time penalty by Igor Balis at Valley Parade which meant that Albion’s first promotion…
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West Brom 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 For the second time in a few weeks, Albion managed to scramble a stoppage time equaliser at the Hawthorns in what was a disappointing performance at the Hawthorns. The ball bobbled into the same corner of the same net as the “Hand of Rod” goal had done against Villa, but there was no controversy…
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