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

It was heartbreak for Baggies fans as a deflected speculative shot in the 95th minute somehow squeezed past Josh Griffiths to give the hosts all three points and condemn the Baggies to a third defeat in four games. It was a better performance than on Saturday and Albion had a few good chances to take the lead, while Griffiths saved a first half penalty, but ultimately it was a third game without a goal for Mason’s team.

It is the longest run without scoring since they went five games without a goal in January and February 2022, with Valérien Ismaël being replaced by Steve Bruce two matches into that run. Albion’s goal tally of 12 goals from 14 games is the joint lowest in any of our comparison seasons (with 1994/95), and the only second tier season when the Baggies have scored fewer was the 1975/76 campaign when Johnny Giles’s team had scored only ten – they would, of course, go on to win promotion. The club record was set in 1985/86 when Giles had returned to the Hawthorns the previous campaign but had been sacked and replaced by Nobby Stiles by the time Albion lost 1-0 at Hillsborough in game 14 having scored only six goals in Division One that season.

This season, only Portsmouth (10) and Sheffield United (11) have scored fewer goals than Albion this season, and Pompey play their fourteenth game on Wednesday evening.

It was the Baggies’ sixth defeat of the campaign, the most defeats at this stage since 1994/95 when Burkinshaw’s team had lost seven of their opening fourteen matches.

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