Two founder members of the Football League meet at the Hawthorns on Saturday for the 128th time in the league, although just the sixth time in the Premier League. The Baggies are unbeaten against Burnley in the Premier League, but it is the Clarets who are leading the way as the “best of the rest”… Continue reading Baggies protect an unbeaten record against the “best of the rest”
An improved performance from Albion with the usual result as the points-lost-from-winning-positions tally hits 24.
For the first time this season, Albion have the opportunity to complete a league double as they face Bournemouth, one of only two teams that the Baggies managed to beat in the first half of the season.
The Times described it as “hapless tinkering”, but I think Krychowiak had some harsher words to describe the decision to taken him off after an hour of the game against Leicester, and there were certainly a few coarser descriptions from fans near me in the Birmingham Road End.
West Bromwich Albion face Leicester City at the Hawthorns this weekend and it’s difficult to find something new to say about what seems to be the Baggies’ doomed efforts to stay in the Premier League.
It was a better performance than against Huddersfield, but ultimately it was the same result. A story of Albion’s season as they failed to take their chances and one mistake cost them.