Albion’s Promotion Challenge Season Comparison – 4 games

The Baggies kept up their record of having won game 4 in each of their last six seasons in the second tier, and in some style!

I don’t think anyone say that second half performance coming, although Albion did look fairly potent going forward int the second half at Carrow Road. Rangers’ equaliser left everyone feeling somewhat deflated after what had been an encouraging first half performance, but to score six goals in the second half was remarkable.

It was the first time Albion had scored more than four goals in a game, and their biggest win, since they beat Gateshead 7-0 in Tony Pulis’s first game in charge in January 2015. In the league, they hadn’t scored more than four since the 5-5 draw in Sir Alex Ferguson’s last game as Manchester United manager in May 2013 and it was their biggest league win since the 7-0 thumping of Barnsley on the final day of the regular league season in 2006/7.

The Baggies move up to third place in the table, although they’ve played one more game that most clubs in the Championship, but eleven goals in two games should put them in the right frame of mind to take on the current league leaders, Tony Pulis’s Middlesbrough, on their own patch on Friday evening.

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 4 1 0 3 3 8 3 20th 1 0 1 2 3 3 0 0 2 1 5 0 6th 74
2001/2002 4 1 1 2 3 4 4 17th 1 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 1 2 3 1 2nd 89
2003/2004 4 3 0 1 7 5 9 2nd 2 0 0 5 1 6 1 0 1 2 4 3 2nd 86
2006/2007 4 2 2 0 5 2 8 4th 2 0 0 4 1 6 0 2 0 1 1 2 4th 76
2007/2008 4 2 0 2 5 3 6 9th 2 0 0 4 0 6 0 0 2 1 3 0 1st 81
2009/2010 4 3 1 0 7 3 10 3rd 1 1 0 3 1 4 2 0 0 4 2 6 2nd 91
2018/2019 4 2 1 1 13 7 7 3rd 1 0 1 8 3 3 1 1 0 5 4 4
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

2000/2001 28/08/2000 Queen’s Park Rangers (H) W 2-1 Van Blerk, Hughes
2001/2002 27/08/2001 Gillingham (H) W 1-0 Dichio
2003/2004 25/08/2003 Preston North End (H) W 1-0 Hughes (pen)
2006/2007 19/08/2006 Colchester United (H) W 2-1 Ellington (pen), Wallwork
2007/2008 01/09/2007 Barnsley (H) W 2-0 Teixeira, Beattie
2009/2010 22/08/2009 Ipswich Town (H) W 2-0 Mulumbu, Koren
2018/2019 18/08/2018 Queen’s Park Rangers (H) W 7-1 Phillips (2), Gibbs, Rodriguez (2 pens), Gayle, Robson-Kanu

Next Matches

2000/2001 03/09/2000 Crystal Palace (H) W 1-0 McInnes
2001/2002 08/09/2001 Manchester City (H) W 4-0 McInnes, Clement (2, 1 pen), Dobie
2003/2004 30/08/2003 Derby County (A) W 1-0 Hulse
2006/2007 28/08/2006 Sunderland (A) L 0-2
2007/2008 15/09/2007 Ipswich Town (H) W 4-0 Miller, Teixeira, Phillips (2)
2009/2010 29/08/2009 Sheffield United (A) D 2-2 Bednar (2)
2018/2019 24/08/2018 Middlesbrough (A)

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