Coventry City 1 West Bromwich Albion 0 Albion’s winning run came to an end on Wednesday as they suffered their first ever defeat at the CBS Arena thanks to a stoppage time penalty from Viktor Gyökeres. While Albion could consider themselves a little unlucky as the ball rebounded kindly for the Swede before he was brought down, and that the…
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Albion’s winning run came to an end at Coventry City as Viktor Gyökeres’ stoppage time penalty earned all three points for the Sky Blues leaving the Baggies in 16th place still five points off the play-offs and five points above the bottom three. Since the 2-0 defeat to Sheffield United in Corberán’s opening game, the two goals that Albion have…
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Coventry City v West Bromwich Albion; CBS Arena, Wednesday 21st December 2022, 7.45pm Albion play their game in hand over the bulk of the Championship on Wednesday evening knowing that victory would move them up to eighth place for Christmas, something that was unthinkable a few short weeks ago. When this fixture was originally scheduled in early September, both clubs…
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West Bromwich Albion 3 Rotherham United 0 The turnaround that Carlos Corberán has instigated at the Hawthorns in the last two months is nothing short of remarkable. Albion eased to their fifth successive victory on Saturday without really breaking sweat with a confident performance that produced their first three goal victory since the 5-2 win over Hull City in August.…
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The last time Albion won five games in a row, they were top of the Championship and flying under Slaven Bilić. They actually won six games in a row from 4th November to 8th December 2019, a run that was ended when the Croat opted to rest his two star players in Pereira and Diangana for the trip to Cardiff…
Read MoreChristmas cheer growing for Baggies as they look for five in a row
West Bromwich Albion v Rotherham United; The Hawthorns, Saturday 17th December 2022, 3pm Things are looking up for Albion fans and there will be a genuine expectation that Carlos Corberán’s team will record a fifth successive victory on Saturday when Rotherham United visit the Hawthorns. Of course, football is not that simple and results, particularly in the Championship, are not…
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