Brandon Thomas-Asante’s controversial goal and a few excellent Alex Palmer saves earned Albion a point at Leeds on Friday night to move them up into the top half of the table, albeit Saturday’s results mean that they are down to 13th at the time of writing. Four points from the opening three games represents a “par” score based on the…
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Leeds United v West Bromwich Albion; Elland Road, Friday 18th August 2023, 8pm Albion travel to West Yorkshire on Friday evening for their first televised fixture of the season, and their first match against one of the teams to have been relegated from the Premier League. Leeds and Albion were both promoted automatically in the COVID-affected 2019/2020 campaign with both…
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They made it a little harder for themselves late on, but the Baggies managed to kick start their campaign with a victory over Swansea City. The last time that Albion started a second tier season with one defeat and one win was in 2007 when they ended up league champions. Only once have the Baggies won both of their opening…
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West Bromwich Albion v Swansea City; The Hawthorns, Saturday 12th August 2023, 3pm Albion kick of their Hawthorns campaign this weekend looking to improve from two opening defeats on the road. The visitors are Swansea City who kicked off life under new head coach, Michael Duff, with a draw at home to Birmingham City before dispatching Northampton Town convincingly in…
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Stoke City v West Bromwich Albion; Bet365 Stadium, Tuesday 8th August 2023, 7.45pm Coming as it does, these days, so early in the season, the first round of the League Cup is always something of a lottery, even more so when playing against another Championship team. With the transfer window still open, it is tricky to predict what each manager…
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Blackburn Rovers 2 West Bromwich Albion 1 Two individual errors in two horrendous first half minutes proved decisive for Albion as they fell to a narrow defeat in their opening day fixture at Ewood Park. It was a disappointing result in a match that the visitors had dominated early on and certainly deserved something from given the overall balance of…
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