17-10-2025, 12:51
Team News
Heading into a six-day period with three games, manager Paul Heckingbottom is aware there’s an element of managing some of his players' fitness.
All six of North End’s international players are back, having all featured for their countries, and they’re all expected to be available on Saturday.
Jordan Thompson has stepped up his recovery throughout the break to take part in non-contact parts of training, although he is still some time away from being back in action. Brad Potts, Pol Valentín, Robbie Brady and Will Keane remain out.
The Hosts
Sat seventh in the Championship at this early stage, West Brom have made a promising start to life under Ryan Mason, in his first role as a senior head coach.
Their star man so far this season has been Ali McCann’s international teammate Isaac Price, who tops their goalscoring chart with three goals, while he’s also a key source of creation for the Baggies.
They went into the international break following a disappointing 3-0 away defeat to Millwall, so they’ll be wanting to get back to winning ways as quickly as possible.
Match Officials
Referee: Andrew Kitchen
Assistant Referees: Shaun Hudson and Hristo Karaivanov
Fourth Official: Matthew Russell
Andrew Kitchen will take charge of Saturday’s fixture at The Hawthorns, which will be his first North End match since February 2025.
So far this season, Kitchen has taken charge of eight matches, showing 20 yellow cards.
After the enforced break due to International boredom week, we now have three games in six days, Albion, New York and Chris Wilder part 3,
First up Albion, a bit of transition at the Hawthorns, new manager settling in, as said it's a ground we usually get all of sod from.
Heading into a six-day period with three games, manager Paul Heckingbottom is aware there’s an element of managing some of his players' fitness.
All six of North End’s international players are back, having all featured for their countries, and they’re all expected to be available on Saturday.
Jordan Thompson has stepped up his recovery throughout the break to take part in non-contact parts of training, although he is still some time away from being back in action. Brad Potts, Pol Valentín, Robbie Brady and Will Keane remain out.
The Hosts
Sat seventh in the Championship at this early stage, West Brom have made a promising start to life under Ryan Mason, in his first role as a senior head coach.
Their star man so far this season has been Ali McCann’s international teammate Isaac Price, who tops their goalscoring chart with three goals, while he’s also a key source of creation for the Baggies.
They went into the international break following a disappointing 3-0 away defeat to Millwall, so they’ll be wanting to get back to winning ways as quickly as possible.
Match Officials
Referee: Andrew Kitchen
Assistant Referees: Shaun Hudson and Hristo Karaivanov
Fourth Official: Matthew Russell
Andrew Kitchen will take charge of Saturday’s fixture at The Hawthorns, which will be his first North End match since February 2025.
So far this season, Kitchen has taken charge of eight matches, showing 20 yellow cards.
After the enforced break due to International boredom week, we now have three games in six days, Albion, New York and Chris Wilder part 3,
First up Albion, a bit of transition at the Hawthorns, new manager settling in, as said it's a ground we usually get all of sod from.
Why should a man go to work, if he has the health and strength to stay in bed?