- 1 Preston North End vs West Bromwich Albion: the Championship’s worst defence against a side chasing three straight wins
- 2 Preston North End: one home win all season and nine goals conceded in Alexander’s three games
- 3 West Bromwich Albion: three away wins from five and Price leading the scoring
- 4 Free Football Prediction: Preston North End vs West Bromwich Albion
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Preston North End vs West Bromwich Albion: the Championship’s worst defence against a side chasing three straight wins 
Twenty-six league games without a clean sheet. Preston North End equalled their club record at the Racecourse on 17 October, when Wrexham beat them 4-1, and West Bromwich Albion arrive at Deepdale on Saturday (3pm UK time) with the chance to push it to 27.
The table explains why few expect the run to end here. Preston are bottom of the Championship after 11 games with four points, one win, one draw and nine defeats. They’ve scored nine and conceded 24, which is both the weakest attack and the leakiest defence in the division.
Graham Alexander took over last month and has lost all three of his games so far: 0-1 at home to Millwall on 10 October, 4-0 at Birmingham three days later and then the defeat in Wrexham. That’s nine goals conceded and one scored across the first week and a half of his tenure.
West Brom sit fifth on 20 points, five behind the leaders Swansea. James Morrison’s side won 2-1 at Wrexham on 13 October and then trailed Blackburn 2-0 at The Hawthorns four days later before winning 3-2, with Isaac Price scoring a 72nd-minute penalty and Horn Myhre getting the winner on 89 minutes from the bench. Another win would give them three league victories in a row for the first time since August and September 2024.
West Brom have also won the last three meetings, including a 2-0 win at Deepdale on 18 April 2026, and Preston have won only two of the last 16 between the clubs against 11 for Albion.
We think the market has this about right, and we’ll explain below why we still want to be with the away side at 1.95.
Preston North End: one home win all season and nine goals conceded in Alexander’s three games 
Preston have played five league games at home, won one and lost the other four, scoring four times and conceding nine. The only victory came on 5 September, 2-1 against Blackburn, with Lang scoring both goals.
Since then they’ve gone six league games without a win, drawing one and losing five. The sequence started with a 2-1 defeat at Watford on 8 September and a 1-0 home loss to Lincoln four days later, before a 2-2 draw at QPR on 19 September offered the last point they’ve taken.
Lang leads the scoring with three league goals, Kenny has two, and Thompson and Devine have one each. Devine’s goal at Wrexham was his first since March, and Kenny is listed as a doubt for Saturday.
Five players are on the injury list. Clarke, Gibbs and McCann are all out, McCann having been missing since late August, while Carroll and Potts are sidelined with ankle problems. Wiley played in a training match on Tuesday and is close to a return, though we’d be surprised to see him start.
The expected XI has a back three of Storey, Lindsay and Hughes, with Offiah and Vukcevic as wing-backs and Leroy and Thompson in central midfield. Preston have conceded 2.2 goals per game this season, and their last two away trips produced eight against.
Four goals in five home games is the other half of it. Preston haven’t scored at Deepdale since the Blackburn win on 5 September, losing 1-0 to Lincoln and 1-0 to Millwall in the two home games since.
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West Bromwich Albion: three away wins from five and Price leading the scoring 
Albion’s away record reads three wins and two defeats from five. They won 1-0 at Derby on 9 September and 2-1 at Wrexham on 13 October, while the low point was a 1-0 loss at Wolves on 20 September.
Morrison is in his first full season in charge, and his side haven’t been prolific: 15 goals in 11 games, with 12 conceded. Price has four, Morgan three and Styles two, and the spread matters against a defence that has conceded in 26 straight league games.
Two goals down at home against Blackburn, they scored three times, and the winner came from a substitute in the 89th minute.
The Blackburn game cost them Collyer, who picked up a hamstring injury and is expected to be out until December, while Galves remains sidelined with a knee problem and Johnston is out with a broken leg.
The probable XI keeps O’Leary in goal behind a back four of Pereira, Mepham, Campbell and Styles, with Molumby and Diakite in the middle, Price and Morgan supporting Heggebo, who has three league goals.
The home defeat to Birmingham on 10 October and the 1-1 draw with QPR in September show Albion can be held. Neither opponent has a defence that has conceded 24 in 11 games.
Probable lineup Preston North End: Iversen; Storey, Lindsay, Hughes; Offiah, Leroy, Thompson, Vukcevic; Lang, Devine, Kenny
Probable lineup West Bromwich Albion: O’Leary; Pereira, Mepham, Campbell, Styles; Diakite, Molumby, Nzingoula, Price, Morgan; Heggebo
Free Football Prediction: Preston North End vs West Bromwich Albion
Our prediction: West Bromwich Albion to win (odds 1.95)
Preston have taken one point from their last six league games, have lost all three under Alexander and haven’t kept a clean sheet in 26 league matches. West Brom are fifth, have won three of five away from home and have beaten Preston in each of the last three meetings, including 2-0 at Deepdale in April.
A new manager can produce a reaction, and Preston lost only 1-0 in each of their last two home games. We weigh that against nine goals conceded in Alexander’s three games and an attack that has scored four times at Deepdale all season.
At 1.95 we’re backing the away win outright rather than taking a shorter price on the draw no bet. Albion face a side that concedes more than two per game and has scored once in Alexander’s three matches, and we expect them to score at least twice.
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