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West Bromwich Albion form has dipped but winnable fixtures approaching
National World - LocalTV
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16/10/2024
A look at WBA’s recent weeks in the Championship.
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West Bromwich Albion started the season fantastically well with top of the division. They've slipped
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down to fourth with 17 points still. I'm sure most or all of West Bromwich's fanbase would
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have taken that at this stage. But without winning three, losing Sheffield Wednesday
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and then Middlesbrough at home and then drawing to Millwall at home, a bit of momentum has
00:25
sort of gone. How have they sort of revived that? There's some winnable fixtures coming
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up, but comparing it to the start of the season, has much changed or do they just need to sort
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of get back with that confidence?
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It's a strange one really, because I don't think anyone expected West Brom to start the
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way they did, winning pretty much every single game apart from that draw against Leeds United
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at home, another goalless one. Josh Major starting a lot better than a lot of people
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would have expected as well. Seven goals in seven. That's now seven in nine. Just the
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output up front hasn't quite been there in these last three games. Did score twice away
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at Sheffield Wednesday, which isn't too bad. Just an off day defensively, that one. The
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Middlesbrough game maybe just outsmarted a little bit. Payton Hackney getting the late
01:08
goal in that and then Millwall, they sat back and they played for a nil-nil draw. There
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was no doubt about that. West Brom had 80% of the ball in that game at the Hawthorns
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and just such a frustrating game for Albion. They couldn't make a way through. I think
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we might see a few changes for this weekend against Oxford United. It's inevitable when
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they're not scoring goals too much in the last few matches and it's a bit more clinical.
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Jed Wallace has been on the bench for much of this season. Could we see him maybe getting
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a start? Tom Fellows has been in and out of the team the last few weeks. Sure that he's
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got to play. He's one of the most exciting players in the whole squad. And then Mikey
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Johnston not quite hitting the ground running as people would have hoped. Is Carlin Grant
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the better option? Lots of selection dilemmas for Corbran, but a good problem really to
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have such depth in attack.
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Yeah, and just on the fixtures coming up, obviously Oxford away, Blackburn away, Cardiff
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City are rock bottom at home. I mean, you look at those fixtures and if you are going
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to be a team that's going to be reaching those playoff places and maybe challenging in a
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possible title race come the end of the season, the big parts of the season, these are games
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that you have to get points at.
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Yeah, I think the Oxford one, it's a newly promoted team. They've drawn three, lost three
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and won three of their games. So it's been a bit of a shaky and strange start for them.
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I mean, three wins out of nine is not too bad at all for a newly promoted team, but
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the golfing quality in the two squads, you would expect West Brom to get a decent result
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there.
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Blackburn's a lot trickier. John Eustace has led them to a very good start to this season,
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but they've maybe been overperforming a little bit. They've been quite clinical. If you look
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at the expected goals figures so far this season, they have been outperforming what
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they should be doing. So another one where you'd fancy at least a draw maybe. And then
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that final game against Cardiff City has simply got to be three points. You've got to be beating
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those teams in the round at the bottom of the table if you're going to be getting promoted
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to the Premier League.
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