Having had a fortnight to reflect on their first league defeat of the season, Ismaël’s Albion return to action on Friday evening with the visit of Lee Bowyer’s Birmingham City to the Hawthorns. It is the Baggies fourth Friday night fixture of the season, it would have been their fifth had the trip to Peterborough not been pushed back by…
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Stoke City 1 West Brom 0 Valérien Ismaël’s frank assessment of Albion’s performance at the Bet365 Stadium was spot on – his team failed to reach the levels that they did on Tuesday evening and made far too many mistakes. On another night, they may have got away with it, but the Potters were the best side that the Baggies…
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After a below par performance at Stoke, Albion’s unbeaten record is gone, although let’s not forget that a new club record has been set. In this century, only Megson’s 2003 side had more points after 11 games and are also the only team to match Ismaël’s side’s goals against column with just nine goals conceded. Going back even further into…
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After a comfortable victory in south Wales, Albion are away from home once again for their next fixture, at one-time bogie side, Stoke City. The times when all Baggies would fear a meeting with the Potters as a matter of course are behind us, but having struggled for a few seasons after they were relegated along with Albion in 2018,…
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Cardiff City 0 West Brom 4 Valérien Ismaël’s Albion side set a new club record of ten games unbeaten at the start of a league campaign as they trounced Cardiff City on their home soil. It was also the Baggies’ first win in the Welsh capital for almost 47 years and moved them back to the top of the table…
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A comfortable 4-0 victory at Cardiff was the Baggies’ first in the Welsh capital since 1974 and it extended Albion’s unbeaten start to the league campaign to ten games, a new club record. This season’s team now have 22 points from 10 games, matching the 21st century record set by Gary Megson’s 2003 team. Only two Albion sides in history…
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