The first big top-of-the-table clash of the season takes place on Saturday lunchtime as Valérien Ismaël’s third-placed Baggies travel to Marco Silva’s second-placed Fulham. Albion met current leaders, Bournemouth, on the opening weekend of the season and pre-season promotion favourites, Sheffield United, a couple of weeks later, but this fixture eclipses those given the current state of play in the…
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West Brom 3 Bristol City 0 Albion bounced back in style from their defeat at Swansea by comfortably defeating a poor Bristol City side with a dominant performance at the Hawthorns. Jordan Hugill scored his first goal for the Baggies while an unfamiliar midfield pair of Molumby and Snodgrass were hugely impressive in their first appearance together. Perhaps the only…
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A comprehensive victory over Bristol City moved the Baggies back into the top two, at least until Fulham play on Sunday, and also means that this season’s team have the best start to a 21st century campaign level on points with Megson’s 2003 team but with a better goal difference. Even Megson’s famously stingy sides had conceded more goals than…
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Heaven be praised, Albion are playing at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon! For just the third time at the Hawthorns this campaign, and the fourth time overall, the Baggies are playing a match when football should be played. The opponents are Bristol City who are yet to win on their own patch this season but have won four matches on…
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Swansea City 2 West Brom 1 Despite the outcry on social media, I’m not expecting any drastic changes from Valérien Ismaël following Albion’s second defeat of the season at Swansea. It was a disappointing performance from the Baggies, particularly given their fantastic start, and they can have few complaints about the result. Having said that, it was a game of…
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Valérien Ismaël’s Albion fell to their second defeat of the season at Swansea but the start to this campaign is still the joint fourth best of the century. In the second tier, Megson’s 2003/04 team had 28 points at this stage and Slaven Bilić’s side had 26 while Steve Clarke’s 2012/13 side found themselves 3rd in the Premier League after…
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