Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 33 games | OneFootball

The first draw of Tony Mowbray’s second spell at the club makes it one win in thirteen visits to Millwall for Albion, a run that extends for 38 years. It also lengthens the Baggies’ run without a clean sheet to twelve games in all competitions with their last shut-out coming in Carlos Corberán’s last match in charge.

The equaliser at the Den is the first own goal that has gone in Albion’s favour for more than a year – Blackburn Rovers’ Dom Hyam was the last to put the ball into his own net against the Baggies in their 4-1 defeat at the Hawthorns in January 2024. Furlong, Heggem and Holgate have all scored own goals this season.

After five league games without a draw, Albion recorded their 15th draw of the campaign which matches a club record at this stage of the season. In 2013/14, Albion led Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 after 31 minutes but Pepe Mel’s side still managed to record their 15th draw of the season when Christian Eriksson scored in the 94th minute to make it 3-3. In 1999/2000, Brian Little’s team were beaten in game 33 but they already had 15 draws on the board – the Baggies had only won six games, however, and Little would manage just one more game before being sacked, a decision that brought forth Gary Megson to the club for the first time.

The total of 48 points from 33 games that this season’s team have amassed is the same as that won in 2022/23 at the same stage but, in that campaign, it was only good enough for 10th spot. That year, Corberán’s team would earn 18 more points from the final 13 games and miss out on the play-offs by 3 points. The 69 points that proved to be enough for Sunderland to finish in the top six that year is the second lowest in Championship history, with only Leicester City in 2014 gaining a top six spot with fewer points (68). Given the form of the teams chasing the final two play-off spots this season, I wonder if it will be a new record low total.

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