Middlesbrough 2 West Brom 1 Just like the palindromic ambigramic date, Albion’s predicament looks the same whichever way you look at it. The Baggies may have avoided setting a new club record of six games without a goal thanks to Jayson Molumby’s first goal for the club, but a sixth successive defeat leaves them floundering in midtable with little sign…
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After almost eight hours of football without a goal, Albion finally scored but they were unable to hold on and fell to an eighth defeat in eleven games in all competitions to leave them still six points off the table and some nine points worse off than any other second tier Baggies team since 1999/2000. It is Albion’s tenth away…
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Steve Bruce pulled no punches in his assessment of his team’s second half performance at Kenilworth Road on Saturday and has made it clear that he is looking for a reaction as Albion take on Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium on Tuesday evening. The travelling fans may be looking enviously at the opposition bench where the manager that Albion should…
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Luton Town 2 West Brom 0 Steve Bruce described Albion’s second half performance at Kenilworth Road as “unacceptable” – while some of the words I heard in the away end were a little stronger. It was a second half capitulation that will have left most observers with the feeling that there is little chance that the Baggies can finish in…
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Having started the campaign with a club record run of unbeaten games, and unbeaten home games, the class of 2021/22 have now matched another club record, that of five successive games without a goal. This season is the sixth time that particular “feat” has been achieved but only the second time that all five games have been in the league.…
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The third game of Steve Bruce’s tenure sees the Baggies visit Kenilworth Road to take on Nathan Jones’ resurgent Luton Town knowing that defeat would see the Hatters leapfrog Albion in the table. The Bedfordshire side have lost just two of their last twelve games in all competitions, winning eight, a run that has seen them climb into the top…
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