Albion’s Promotion Challenge Season Comparison – 9 games | OneFootball

Albion’s victory over Queen’s Park Rangers on Friday evening not only put the Baggies back on top of the table, albeit briefly, but also equalled the club record unbeaten start to a league campaign of nine matches. It is a record that was also matched by Slaven Bilić’s team two seasons ago and Ismaël’s team have the chance to set a new all-time club record by avoiding defeat at Cardiff City on Tuesday evening.

This season’s tally of 19 points from 9 games has only been bettered once this century, by Roberto di Matteo’s team of 12 years ago, and on only nine occasions in total has an Albion side had a better start to a season. The best of those was Vic Buckingham’s “Team of the Century” who had the equivalent of 23 points from the opening nine games of the 1953/54 campaign culminating in a 7-3 at St James’s Park, Newcastle, a stunning victory that included a hat trick by Johnny Nicholls and a brace from Ronnie Allen.

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