West Bromwich Albion v Huddersfield Town; The Hawthorns, Saturday 11th March 2023, 3pm Carlos Corberán welcomes his former club to the Hawthorns on Saturday, the first time he has faced Huddersfield Town since leaving at the end of last season. He has stated, however, that it will not be particularly emotional for him and he will be concentrated on securing…
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West Bromwich Albion 1 Wigan Athletic 0 It was a game in which the result was far more important than the performance for Albion and, while the 1-0 scoreline did not reflect the superiority that the hosts enjoyed in over the ninety minutes, it did mean that the final few minutes of the match were a little more nervy than…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 35 games
It was a rather uninspiring and occasionally nervy game against Wigan Athletic but it is one that produced a hugely important result to lift Albion up to ninth, within four points of the top six. It is only the second time in the last ten second tier seasons that an Albion side has been outside of the top five at…
Read MoreBaggies entering must-win territory as Wigan visit the Hawthorns
West Bromwich Albion v Wigan Athletic; The Hawthorns, Tuesday 7th March 2023, 8pm After Friday’s disappointing result on Humberside, Carlos Corberán’s team face back-to-back home games against the division’s bottom two sides that you feel are as close to must-win games that you can get at this stage of the season if the Baggies are to maintain a play-off push.…
Read MoreBaggies defeat at Hull is damaging but not terminal
Hull City 2 West Bromwich Albion 0 Albion’s play-off hopes took another dent on Friday night as Carlos Corberán’s team slumped to their fifth successive defeat on the road although, for once, results on Saturday were relatively kind and they are just one point further away from the top six than they were last week. The gap is now seven…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 34 games
Albion’s fifth successive away defeat leaves them in 11th place some six points off the play-offs with twelve games of the season to play. Five away defeats on the trot is generally pretty rare for the Baggies in the second tier, although they did manage six on the bounce last season either side of Steve Bruce’s appointment, a run that…
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