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…
Read MoreAlbion’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,…
Read MoreSoaring 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,…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 6 games
Carlos Corberán’s Baggies made it five wins and a draw from their opening six games with a 1-0 victory over Plymouth Argyle to make it the best league start from an Albion side since Ossie Ardiles’ team matched the achievement in 1992. No Baggies team has won the first six league games of a campaign and only two other Albion…
Read MoreTable-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…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 5 games
A fifth goal of the season from Josh Maja and a superb double from Alex Mowatt leaves Karlan Grant as the only one of the Baggies’ Championship goalscorers this campaign not to have a surname beginning with ‘M’. Paddy McNair is waiting in the wings to join them! Perhaps more importantly, the 3-0 win puts the Baggies top of the…
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