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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Albion fell to defeat on the opening day of a second tier season for the first time since 2018, but perhaps there is encouragement in that they also started their promotion seasons in 2001, 2003 and 2007 with defeats. It is the fourth second tier season in succession that the Baggies have kicked off their campaign on the road, and…
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Blackburn Rovers v West Bromwich Albion; Ewood Park, Saturday 5th August 2023, 3pm For the first time in the 21st century, Albion kick off a third successive season in the second tier on Saturday with a trip to Ewood Park. The financial implications of a third season outside the Premier League have become clear over the summer as the club…
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With just a few days left until the start of the season, but the end of the transfer window still four weeks away, Albion have finally started adding to the incomings column with the signings of Jeremy Sarmiento on loan from Brighton and, most recently, Josh Maja on a free transfer from Bordeaux. The financial realities of the club’s current…
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It was always a long shot and, with Sunderland’s 3-0 victory at Preston North End, the Baggies would have needed a six goal margin of victory at Swansea in order to claim a top six spot. In the end, Joël Piroe’s last minute winner means that the Baggies finished with fewer points that they did last season, albeit a place…
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