Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 14 games | OneFootball

A sixth consecutive draw for this season’s Baggies gives them something in common with the last Albion team to win a major trophy. Alan Ashman’s 1967/68 side are the only other Baggies team to have drawn six games on the bounce, doing so in March and April 1968, a run that included two drawn matches against Liverpool in the FA Cup sixth round. No Albion team has previously drawn six league games in succession.

It was also Albion’s fifth goalless draw of the season, still someway short of the club record of ten in the league in 1979/80 but no Baggies team has previously reached five goalless draws before game 20; the previous highest at this stage was four in the first 14 games of 1948/49.

Albion’s poor goalscoring record at home was already a new club record from the start of the season but now, according to Chris Lepkowski, it is now a Football League record; he reported the previous low goals total from the opening seven home games of a season was four, set by York City in 1972/73 and Carlisle United in 1983/84, but Carlisle actually only scored three in that run. The Baggies total of two, however, still sets a new record.

On the other hand, a seventh clean sheet of the season is just one short of the club record of eight shutouts in the first fourteen games of the 1948/49 campaign. However, the total of just eight goals conceded at this stage is a new club record beating the total of nine let in during the first fourteen games of the 1905/06 and 1948/49 seasons.

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