Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 27 games | OneFootball

A home defeat is not the way that Eric Ramsay will have wanted to start his tenure at the Hawthorns, but he’s in good company in that Carlos Corberán started his Albion career with a home defeat against promotion chasers, and went on to record nine wins from the next ten games.

The Spaniard, of course, had a little longer left in the campaign to turn things around and, as things stand, Albion have the fewest points at this stage of a second tier campaign since the 1999/2000 season when Brian Little’s team were a place lower with three fewer points. Saturday’s results could see the Baggies fall as low as 20th ahead of a massive six-pointer against Norwich City on Tuesday evening.

The defeat also means that Albion have lost three league games in succession for the first time this season, and the first time since April when they were beaten at Norwich and Bristol City either side of a home defeat by Sunderland.

Ramsay undoubtedly has a big job but will hopefully be able to call on either or both of Mowatt or Molumby for Tuesday’s game. The second half comeback did show there is plenty to work with constructively, albeit the late lapse was all too familiar for those of us who have been watched Albion all season. The use of wing backs had mixed success – Iling-Junior looked far happier in a position that he played regularly for the England U21s, while Mikey Johnston looked lost. Defeat to second-placed Middlesbrough was perhaps expected and forgivable – Tuesday evening is a different story altogether.

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