Baggies look to bounce back against Boro

West Bromwich Albion v Middlesbrough; The Hawthorns, Wednesday 1st October 2024, 8pm For the first time this season, Albion are looking to bounce back from a league defeat as they welcome Michael Carrick’s Middlesbrough to the Hawthorns for the first midweek fixture of the campaign. While the loss of the unbeaten record in the Championship was disappointing, it pales into…

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Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 7 games

Josh Maja’s seventh goal in seven league games was not enough to prevent Albion from going down to their first defeat of the season, but results elsewhere meant that the Baggies maintained top spot in the Championship. With Mowatt also scoring, Karlan Grant remains Albion’s only league goalscorer this season whose surname does not begin with ‘M’. Despite the defeat,…

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Soaring Throstles face struggling Owls at Hillsborough

Sheffield Wednesday v West Bromwich Albion; Hillsborough, Saturday 28th September, 12.30pm The strong start to the campaign has taken Albion fans by surprise and, I suspect, the rest of the Championship as well. Sixteen points from a possible eighteen represents the best start by a Baggies team since 1992/93 while the defensive record is second to none. Only once before,…

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Table-topping Baggies welcome the Pilgrims

West Bromwich Albion v Plymouth Argyle; The Hawthorns, Saturday 21st September 2024, 3pm When Albion lost 4-1 in a pre-season friendly at St Andrew’s a week before the season started, I can’t imagine that any Baggies fan thought that they would be sitting proudly at the top of the table five games into the campaign. It’s been a phenomenal start…

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