Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 11 games | OneFootball

A third successive draw for the Baggies saw them move up a place in the table following Sheffield United’s defeat at Middlesbrough, but it extends their winless run to five games. That is the longest spell without a win under Carlos Corberán and the longest since the eight-game run (nine including the League Cup defeat to Derby Country) between August and October 2022 that led to the dismissal of Steve Bruce.

This season’s side have conceded only seven goals from their opening eleven games, bettered only by Don Howe’s team in 1974 that had conceded six at the same stage and had a similar record of five wins and four draws. Albion have conceded seven goals in their opening eleven league games twice before, both in the early twentieth century in Division Two – in 1905 and 1908. Fred Everiss’s 1908 team would end up being promoted as champions, while the 1905 and 1974 teams both finished in the top six.

It was the Baggies’ sixth clean sheet of the campaign which has not been done by an Albion side since Tony Pulis’s team earned six shutouts in the first eleven games of the 2015/16 Premier League campaign. No Albion side has earned more clean sheets from the opening eleven games but it was also matched in 1991, 1974, 1948 and 1906. A seventh shutout against Cardiff City on Saturday would be a new club record.

The draw also meant that Albion have earned eleven points from their opening six away games of the campaign, a total that has been bettered on only seven occasions (when applying three points for a win) in the club’s history. Incredibly, Brian Little’s team earned 12 points from their opening six away games in 1999 with three wins and three draws, but their dreadful home form (they failed to win any of their first eight at the Hawthorns) kept them in the lower reaches of the table. Before that, we have to go back to Vic Buckingham’s “Team of the Century” who won their first six games on the road in 1953.

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