Hull City v. West Bromwich Albion (3 Feb) [R]

[DevilDave]

Our third match of the week will see us travel up to Hull where we will hopefully continue to improve our record away from the Hawthorns.

Hull are near the bottom and are fighting to remain clear of the relegation zone. However, Albion seem to have had difficulty against some of the bottom sides this season. We had to hang on against Leeds, earn a last-gasp winner against Luton, and we lost to Southend (who also beat Blues Tuesday night). We did beat the Tigers at home in our first match of the season.

The race for the Championship title and automatic promotion places have tightened up significantly. It is important that we keep pace with Derby, Blues, Preston and Southampton during the next two months, as our fixture list contains some very beatable opposition in the final month of the season.

[DevilDave]

A win is a win. We did just enough to grind out an away result and a deserved three points in the bag. Diomansy Kamara again gets on the scoresheet with our only goal of the match.

As per usual, there is certainly room for improvement. We could have and should have thoroughly buried Hull as we had more and better chances and dominated the ball. But a combination of our poor finishing and a superhuman effort by Hull keeper Boaz Myhill kept the scoreline tight.

We've jumped up to third after today's other results. Albion remain just one point behind second-placed PNE and have jumped a point ahead of Blues (keeping in mind they still have two games in hand). We've got a fairly big match next week at home against Southampton. Hopefully no-one gets injured on international duty in mid-week.

[Albion + England]

Such a big win, Your right it could have been more but i'll settle for a hard fought one nil. Especially as Derby and Preston both won.