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After a string of good results we were due a blip by the international break, and sure enough, being held to a draw by Hull at home was a disappointing end to a week in which we dropped four points through defensive error. The playoff chase is bunched up again as a result, even as some of the stragglers fall away; among them Norwich City, whose two defeats in a week all but ended their campaign a fortnight ago, just in time for our visit.

The Canaries are now winless for over a month, though their last victory came at Carrow Road, and indeed, their one win against Albion in the last seven encounters came in the corresponding fixture last season. For the Baggies, meanwhile, it's now a dry spell of eleven on the road; our worst in any division since the winter of 2017-18. Small wonder, then, that the odds tilt a little in the home side's favour in anticipation that they'll target a return to winning ways in what's inevitably their last chance at clinging to the coattails of the playoff race.

The fixture list isn't going to get any kinder for Albion between now and Easter, so while this is the kind of match in which a draw would ordinarily do, the bigger picture demands something more this weekend. The away win-drought has to end, and as difficult as it'll undoubtedly be, we need to look at doing it here.