west brom has had nine wins this season.
west brom has had nine wins this season.
how many wins have west brom had this season?
nine
ranked by "the daily telegraph" as the most fierce in the region behind the black country derby and the second city derby, games between aston villa and west brom are quite fierce. the two first met on 9 december 1882, in the second round of the staffordshire cup: villa hosted a 3–3 draw in front of 13,900 fans, while in the replay west brom won by a single goal with an attendance of 10,500. on 3 january 1885, they met for the first time in the third round of the fa cup: a goalless draw at west brom was followed by a 3–0 victory for them away at villa. the following year, both teams became founder members of the football league. they met first in a league fixture on 19 january 1889, villa winning 2–0 at home, and again the next week in a 3–3 draw. the two teams met in two further fa cup finals in the 19th century, a 3–0 win for west brom in 1892 and a 1–0 win for aston villa in 1895. birmingham city were relegated from the premier league in 2011 and wolverhampton wanderers a season later, leaving aston villa and west brom as the only west midlands teams in england's top division and without their respective main rivals and with albion finishing above their nearest rivals for the second season in a row, the historic rivalry is re-surfacing. at the end of the 2015–16 season, aston villa were relegated, leaving west brom the only west midlands team in the top flight for the 2016–17 season. after west brom's relegation at the end of the 2017-18 premier league, the teams faced each other once again in the championship. in the semi-finals of the 2018-19 efl championship play-offs aston villa knocked out the baggies on penalties.
west bromwich albion f.c.
december began with a draw against derby county, following this with a defeat to promotion rivals cardiff city and a late draw against qpr. the following two games ended in wins against strugglers peterborough united and scunthorpe united. the baggies then lost to nottingham forest, causing the baggies to drop to third. this was followed by draws to newcastle united and ipswich town. wins against sheffield united, blackpool, plymouth and scunthorpe put them top of the table. cardiff city held west brom to a 1–1 draw, with gianni zuiverloon scoring the equaliser. bristol city beat them 2–1 but they quickly bounced back with a 3–1 win over derby county. west brom started march badly with a 3–1 loss to qpr, but wins against sheffield wednesday, blackpool, swansea, preston and coventry widened the gap between the play-offs and the automatic spots. on-form reading held the albion to a 1–1 draw. playoff hopefuls leicester city were the next to fall at the hawthorns, where west brom won 3–0. chris brunt then saved a point for west brom after danny graham put watford ahead. west brom secured promotion back to the premier league after a 3–2 win against doncaster rovers on 10 april 2010.
2009–10 west bromwich albion f.c. season