Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 35 games | OneFootball

Tony Mowbray’s Baggies become only the fourth team to come away from Elland Road with any Championship points this season as they held the league leaders to a deserved draw. However, Coventry City’s fourth successive victory saw them move above Albion in the table.

The result also means that the Baggies have drawn every game they have played with the Championship’s top four with two left to play – away to Burnley and home to Sunderland.

It was Albion’s 16th draw of the season which is a club record at this stage of the season with the Baggies having recorded 15 draws in the first 35 games of a campaign on three previous occasions in 2013/14, 2004/05 and 1999/2000. Only once in our comparison seasons have Albion lost fewer games at the same stage of the season. In 2019/20, Slaven Bilić’s team had lost just four games by this stage but would end up losing seven by the end of the campaign. Furthermore, only Gary Megson’s teams had conceded fewer goals at this stage – 24 in 2001/02 and 30 in 2003/04 compared to the 32 conceded in the current campaign. When considering all of the club’s history, another three seasons had better defensive record – 1908/09 (25), 1924/25 (31) and 1975/76 (30).

It was Darnell Furlong’s first goal of the season having scored five goals in the last campaign, a career high. He becomes the 14th Albion player to score in the Championship this season. Only Torbjørn Heggem has played more league minutes for the Baggies than Furlong this season – the Baggies right back has played every minute bar the match at Sunderland for which he was suspended. Meanwhile Heggem has started every league game and been substituted only three times and not since 1st October.

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