Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 39 games | OneFootball

It may not have been as impressive or as fluid as the victory over Hull City, but a battling 1-0 win at Ashton Gate for Mozza’s Baggies was just as important and just as deserved. It should have been just as comfortable as the defeat of the Tigers, albeit Albion weren’t as good up front, but I never really felt as though the Robins looked like scoring, albeit a 1-0 lead coming into the closing stages has never been a comfortable watch for Baggies fans this season.

It was a first away victory for Albion since 1st October and the first back-to-back league wins since the opening two fixtures of the season. The last time that a Baggies team won successive matches without conceding a goal was in September 2024 when they actually won three on the bounce 1-0 home wins over Swansea City and Plymouth Argyle either side of a 3-0 win away to Portsmouth.

With none of Albion’s relegation rivals winning, the result moves them into 20th place four points clear of the bottom three while Portsmouth’s 6-1 defeat means that they now have a worse goal difference than Mozza’s men while Blackburn Rovers are only in 19th by virtue of a single goal. Portsmouth do have a game in hand which they will play on 14th April at home to Ipswich Town.

Things are definitely looking far more promising than they were at the beginning of March, not just in terms of the league table, but the whole feeling around the club and the belief that seems to be growing within the squad. James Morrison has obviously made a huge impact, but that needs to be maintained as Albion are far from safe. This away win is a massive confidence boost given the Baggies’ record on the road this season, especially when their “easier” fixtures are away from home – at Blackburn, Preston and Sheffield Wednesday. Their home games, on the other hand, are all against teams fighting for the play-offs.

Only in 1991 and 2000 has an Albion side had fewer points from 39 games in a second tier season – on both those occasions, they had 39 points and went down with 48 in 1991 and stayed up with 49 in 2000. In 1994, Keith Burkinshaw’s team had 44 points after a goalless draw at Bristol City in game 39 – they would get just one point from the next four games and needed a 1-0 win at Fratton Park on the final day to secure survival.

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