Albion’s Promotion Challenge Season Comparison – 31 games

The Baggies avoided a fourth straight defeat but they still failed to score so extended their scoreless run to four games.

That run was matched in the league by Slaven Bilić’s team either side of lockdown in 2020 when they failed to score against Wigan Athletic, Swansea City, Birmingham City and Brentford, although that run was punctuated by a 3-2 defeat to Newcastle United in the FA Cup.

The last run of four consecutive games without a goal in all competitions was towards the end of the 2016/17 campaign when Tony Pulis’s side drew blanks against Manchester United, Watford, Southampton, Liverpool and Leicester City, a run of five matches that is a club record equalled on four other occasions.

This season’s team are eight points worse off than any of the other 21st century Albion second tier sides with the teams of 2002, 2008 and 2019 all having 54 points after 31 games. The goal tally of 34 is also the lowest with even Gary Megson’s 2001/02 side having scored one more goal at this stage, and they are also the only team to have conceded fewer goals having let in 23 compared to this campaign’s 26 goals.

Home Away Season End
Pld W D L F A Pts Posn* W D L F A Pts W D L F A Pts Posn Pts
2000/2001 31 16 7 8 42 35 55 4th 10 3 3 26 16 33 6 4 5 16 19 22 6th 74
2001/2002 31 16 6 9 35 23 54 3rd 10 2 4 19 7 32 6 4 5 16 16 22 2nd 89
2003/2004 31 16 9 6 44 28 57 2nd 9 5 2 24 12 32 7 4 4 20 16 25 2nd 86
2006/2007 31 16 7 8 57 36 55 3rd 12 2 1 37 13 38 4 5 7 20 23 17 4th 76
2007/2008 31 16 6 9 66 40 54 2nd 10 4 1 39 15 34 6 2 8 27 25 20 1st 81
2009/2010 31 17 9 5 62 32 60 1st 9 2 4 31 15 29 8 7 1 31 17 31 2nd 91
2018/2019 31 15 9 7 62 40 54 4th 7 6 3 37 23 27 8 3 4 25 17 27 4th 80
2019/2020 31 16 11 4 55 33 59 1st 7 6 2 32 20 27 9 5 2 23 13 32 2nd 83
2021/2022 31 12 10 9 34 26 46 8th 8 6 1 21 8 30 4 4 8 13 18 16
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

2000/2001 10/02/2001 Stockport County (H) D 1-1 Roberts
2001/2002 29/01/2002 Birmingham City (H) W 1-0 Roberts
2003/2004 14/02/2004 Cardiff City (H) W 2-1 Clement, Hughes
2006/2007 03/02/2007 Hull City (A) W 1-0 Kamara
2007/2008 09/02/2008 Barnsley (A) L 1-2 Morrison
2009/2010 16/02/2010 Cardiff City (A) D 1-1 Zuiverloon
2018/2019 12/02/2019 Nottingham Forest (H) D 2-2 Murphy, Rodriguez (pen)
2019/2020 09/02/2020 Millwall (A) W 2-0 Krovinovic, O’Shea
2021/2022 14/02/2022 Blackburn Rovers (H) D 0-0

Next Matches

2000/2001 17/02/2001 Birmingham City (A) L 1-2 Butler
2001/2002 03/02/2002 Burnley (A) W 2-0 Roberts (2)
2003/2004 21/02/2004 Sheffield United (A) W 2-1 Moore, Gaardsøe
2006/2007 10/02/2007 Southampton (H) D 1-1 Phillips
2007/2008 12/02/2008 Sheffield United (H) D 0-0
2009/2010 21/02/2010 Bristol City (A) L 1-2 Dorrans
2018/2019 16/02/2019 Aston Villa (A) W 2-0 Robson-Kanu, Rodriguez
2019/2020 12/02/2020 Reading (A) W 2-1 Pereira, Bartley
2021/2022 19/02/2022 Luton Town (A)

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