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Leeds rampaged at West Brom to beat the Baggies 5-0 and claim their biggest Premier League victory in 17 years.
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A barrage from the visitors in the first half stunned Albion and left Sam Allardyce in search of his first victory as boss.
Romaine Sawyers’ terrible own goal set the tone for the hosts before quick goals in the first half from Ezgjan Alioski, Jack Harrison and Rodrigo.
Raphinha also scored in the second half, as Leeds recorded their biggest top flight win since a 6-1 win over Charlton in 2003.
Marcelo Bielsa’s team maintained their consecutive clean sheets for the first time this season to climb to eleventh position.
Leeds have taken steps forward, using their risk-reward philosophy, and demolished a Baggies team that rose to the Premier League with them last season.
Teams are heading in opposite directions as Leeds’ roller coaster season continues, while second-last Albion is already facing an instant return to the Sky Bet Championship.
They rolled the dice and named Allardyce after firing Slaven Bilic this month and Sunday’s impressive point in Liverpool suggested the new manager’s methods had already sunk.
But his team capitulated at home on Tuesday, not for the first time this season, and has conceded 13 goals in their last three home games to sit within five points of safety.
His displays against the bigger teams, having taken a point from Manchester City and Chelsea, while trailing by one goal to Manchester United and Tottenham, have not been in doubt. Albion needed to compare him to others.
Yet again, they failed to back up those performances and fell behind nine minutes after a nightmarish moment for Sawyers.
Pressured by Rodrigo, the midfielder tried a blind backward pass to Sam Johnstone and couldn’t detect where the goalkeeper was.
It meant that Johnstone, who had moved to the left of his goal, could only watch as the ball went in.
No team has scored more own goals than the Baggies’ three in the Premier League this season and they had given Leeds a platform.
He was one of Bielsa’s men who took over while dominating possession with Albion without looking like they were going to mount a comeback.
The hosts had not been coming from behind to win in the Premier League for almost four years, since February 2017, and that sequence would be lengthened thanks to three Leeds goals in nine minutes.
Alioski started the goal run in the 31st minute when he spectacularly hit the post from the edge of the area.
Then things got worse for the hosts five minutes later when the excellent Harrison exchanged passes with Patrick Bamford, turned Darnell Furlong and found the top corner at close range.
Leeds were rampant and they continued to embarrass their hosts, making it 4-0 five minutes before the break when Rodrigo’s shot from 18 yards hit Dara O’Shea and he swerved.
It was another disaster for Albion and they needed to at least show some fighting in the second half and Illan Meslier denied Grady Diangana early on.
But Leeds stayed in cruise control and added the sparkle with 18 minutes to go when Raphinha concluded a sweeping motion to the right by cutting in and finding the top corner from the edge of the box.
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