The Baggies visit the Emirates on Thursday evening seeking their first league double over Arsenal for more than half a century. This match is the first of back-to-back games against the two North London giants with Albion facing Spurs at White Hart Lane just four days later.
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After losing two home games against sides below them in the table, the odds of Albion securing a record points total are looking somewhat more remote.
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Quique Sánchez Flores brings his Watford team to the Hawthorns on Saturday for the first ever Premier League meeting between the sides at the Hawthorns. The Hornets have impressed in the top flight this season, but their league results have dipped recently and they are currently on a run of six games without a win.
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This remaisn Albion’s second most successful Premier League season, although in 2011 and 2012, Albion had 39 points from 32 games, just one less that the current total.
Read MoreAlbion seek a first point at the Etihad in a decade
Albion secured their fortieth point at the Stadium of Light last Saturday ahead of a tough run of fixtures in which they play three of the top four in their next four games. The first of those comes in the televised fixture on Saturday evening at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium.
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The 40-point mark has only been reached quicker once before in Albion’s Premier League history, although this is only the fourth season that the Baggies have passed that psychological barrier.
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