Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 41 games | OneFootball

A battling goalless draw with Blackburn Rovers was good enough for Albion apace with all their relegation rivals and tick one more game off. With just five games to go, Mozza’s men remain in 20th place four points clear of the bottom three with the bottom seven clubs all having posted draws on Easter Monday.

It was a game of few chances at Ewood Park with the best falling to Aune Heggebø in the first half – his volley was superbly pushed onto the crossbar by Rovers’ ‘keeper Balázs Tóth. It was a third clean sheet in four games for the Baggies and extends their unbeaten run to six games.

Other results went in Albion’s favour – the bottom six were all playing one another with Portsmouth and Oxford United playing out a 2-2 draw while Leicester City had to rescue a point away to bottom club, Sheffield Wednesday with a goal six minutes from time.

Things could still change, of course, but current form suggests the Baggies will be OK. Of the bottom seven, only Albion and Blackburn have won any of their last four games with both winning two picking up eight points each. Leicester and Oxford have each picked up three, Portsmouth and Charlton two and Sheffield Wednesday just one. Pompey do have a game in hand, but that is against second-placed Ipswich Town next week.

Only twice have the Baggies had fewer points at this stage of a second tier season. In 1991, Albion had 43 points and would draw their remaining five games but be relegated. In 2000, Gary Megson’s team had 41 points – eight points from the last five would be enough to see them survive. In 1994, Keith Burkinshaw’s team were on exactly the same points at this stage, 45. Six more points including a win at Portsmouth on the final day saw them escape the drop.

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