West Bromwich Albion have turn out to be draw specialists within the Championship this season to the apparent frustration of their followers watching on.
After Sunday’s 2-2 draw with fellow promotion candidates Sheffield United, the Baggies at the moment are as much as a startling 11 draws in second tier motion from 20 whole video games, because the West Midlands facet start to fret that these near-misses piling up may stunt their promotion probabilities.
These attracts could be stomached simpler while you additionally think about Carlos Corberan‘s males have solely misplaced two occasions all marketing campaign lengthy, alongside the actual fact high-quality stars in assault akin to Josh Maja and Karlan Grant are greater than able to firing within the objectives wanted for an ongoing promotion hunt.
West Brom’s high quality in assault
Each gamers in query had arguably been written off in a West Brom shirt prior to now coming into their very own, with Maja injury-prone final season and Grant loaned out to Cardiff Metropolis having discovered his minutes to be rare on the Hawthorns.
Maja is as much as double digits with ten strikes tallied up from 20 league contests, while his 27-year-old teammate boasts five strikes away from the ex-Sunderland man stealing the highlight, with three of these coming in his facet’s final six second-tier clashes.
In the end, Corberan will hope extra wins come his facet’s manner off the again of those entertaining attacking shows, as a victory has now eluded his males of their final 4 outings within the tough division.
The Spaniard would like to name upon this different possibility up high if he wasn’t nonetheless sidelined with harm to assist their search, which has confirmed to be a serious downside for the £7m Baggies buy all through his keep to this point.
Why Daryl Dike should lastly be offered
There was a notable buzz within the air when Daryl Dike swapped America for the Championship in January of 2022, having shone within the EFL for Barnsley beforehand, earlier than making the change to West Brom occur.
Dike would hearth dwelling a promising nine strikes from 22 games donning a Tykes strip earlier than the Baggies swooped in, with then West Brom boss Valerien Ismael making him a press release purchase after he had received the 6 foot 2 ace purring when the pair have been collectively at Oakwell.
Ismael would even state on the time of his signing that Dike had “everything” you’d need in a high striker, with acrobatic efforts like this one managed for Barnsley understandably thrilling these at his new membership:
“Dike has the whole lot we’d like from the No.9 place. He has power, power – he challenges defenders – and he scores objectives.
“I labored with him at Barnsley and I do know him very properly. He has the mentality. He’s 21 years outdated and continues to be a younger participant – however he has a whole lot of expertise.”
Sadly, while his spell in South Yorkshire was a dream, his time at West Brom has been nothing in need of a nightmare, with the 24-year-old solely match for motion 32 times throughout a gruelling three-season keep.
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Dike’s numbers at West Brom |
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Stat |
Dike |
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Video games performed |
32 |
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Objectives scored |
8 |
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Assists |
1 |
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Days lacking resulting from harm |
744 |
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Video games lacking resulting from harm |
121 |
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Sourced by Transfermarkt |
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Wanting on the desk above, the eight objectives subsequent to Dike’s title make for some early optimistic studying, however the quantity of video games the previous Orlando Metropolis man has missed resulting from recurring harm points is alarming.
Lacking a big 121 video games owing to harm – which provides as much as 744 days and counting sidelined – a tricky dialog will quickly must happen with Dike over his future on the membership, with no actual concrete replace out within the open over when he’ll subsequent be out there for Corberan to pick out.
Incomes a hefty £32.3k-per-week too while nonetheless being a everlasting fixture within the remedy room, promoting on Dike down the road when he is match sufficient to exit appears to be probably the most believable ending for the American on the Hawthorns.
This is able to be a really disappointing finish for the towering striker on the second-tier outfit, after he was as soon as seen as a signing that would assist the Baggies seal promotion again as much as the Premier League.
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