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Two hard-fought draws with clean sheets point to a slight improvement in Albion's fortunes under Ramsay, but that elusive maiden win remains... well, elusive. The good news is that back-to-back home games this week offer us the opportunity to finally remedy that shortcoming. The bad news is that table-topping Coventry are our first opponents, fresh from steadying their promotion charge with victory against Middlesbrough.
Still, winless in their last eight on the road, the Sky Blues may not be the all-conquering force we might fear, even if they're buoyed by the return from suspension of Brandon Thomas-Asante and confident of an inevitable contribution from him on his erstwhile patch. The Albion injury list also gets no better from one week to the next, but if we can keep things tight the way we have in recent weeks, another point here would be golddust.
Charlton are the more realistic target if we're to aim for three points this week, currently sitting just three places above us. Is it must-win on Tuesday night? Perhaps, depending on how other results go. What's certain is that home draws aren't going to keep us up, so one way or another, from one place or another, the victories have to come.
Still, winless in their last eight on the road, the Sky Blues may not be the all-conquering force we might fear, even if they're buoyed by the return from suspension of Brandon Thomas-Asante and confident of an inevitable contribution from him on his erstwhile patch. The Albion injury list also gets no better from one week to the next, but if we can keep things tight the way we have in recent weeks, another point here would be golddust.
Charlton are the more realistic target if we're to aim for three points this week, currently sitting just three places above us. Is it must-win on Tuesday night? Perhaps, depending on how other results go. What's certain is that home draws aren't going to keep us up, so one way or another, from one place or another, the victories have to come.
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