Pep Guardiola brings his Manchester City side to the Hawthorns on Saturday for the second time looking to extend a seven match winning streak in the league that has seen City score an astonishing 27 goals.
Another late goal conceded and it’s another game without a win and it’s starting to look a little desperate at the Hawthorns. Albion have never scored fewer than seven goals from their opening nine Premier League games, and only in their first three seasons did they have fewer than ten points.
After Craig Shakespeare was shown the door on Tuesday, the “Manager Sackers” face another away trip to a club whose season is not going as well as they would’ve hoped.
Albion return to action after the international break with a trip to the King Power Stadium to take on Leicester City on Monday evening. The Baggies will be looking for their first win since August having picked up just three points from their last five games.
A telling statistic about Albion’s start to this season is that had they repeated the results achieved in the equivalent fixtures last season, they would have enjoyed their best start to a Premier League season and be sitting in sixth place.
Victory over Watford at the Hawthorns on Saturday would bring the Baggies level on points with the Hertfordshire club who have had a positive start to the season under new boss, Marco Silva.