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

It was a familiar story at Carrow Road as Tony Mowbray’s team dominated the game without creating very many chances, ultimately coming away with nothing as the hosts converted their only real chance of the second half. Albion remain in the top six on goal difference with both Middlesbrough and Bristol City level on points. There is then a four point gap to Watford in ninth and the Canaries have kept their slim play-off hopes alive as they now sit in tenth a point further back.

Albion’s current points tally of 57 is the lowest for a sixth-placed Championship team at this stage of the season in the last twenty years. Only once in that time, in 2008, had a sixth-placed team had fewer than 60 points – Plymouth Argyle were in 6th place with 58 points from 39 games that season, but would eventually finish 10th.

In 2002, Gary Megson’s team earned an incredible 19 points from the last seven games, dropping only two points in the home game with Rotherham United, while last season, Carlos Corberán’s team earned only 8 points in the same period but still finished fifth. The fewest points earned from the last seven games in our comparison campaigns was in 1989/90 when Brian Talbot’s team earned just 5 points and dropped to 20th place in the table escaping relegation by only three points. In Tony Mowbray’s two previous Championship campaigns at the Hawthorns, Albion earned 10 points from the last seven games on 2006/07 and 15 points in the same period a year later.

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