West Brom team news:
Defender Billy Jones is West Brom head coach Pepe Mel's latest injury concern ahead of Tuesday's Barclays Premier League match with leaders Chelsea at The Hawthorns.
Jones is a doubt with a knee problem and will undergo a late fitness test on Tuesday morning, and if ruled out will join Nicolas Anelka, Stephane Sessegnon and Jonas Olsson on the sidelines.
After scoring on his debut in Saturday's 3-1 loss at Crystal Palace after coming on as a half-time substitute, Mel may play on-loan Thievy Bifouma from the start.
Provisional squad: Foster, Myhill, Reid, Popov, Ridgewell, Lugano, McAuley, Dawson, Jones, Yacob, Morrison, Sinclair, Brunt, Dorrans, Amalfitano, Mulumbu, Gera, Anichebe, Vydra, Berahino, Bifouma.
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Chelsea team news:
To follow...
Rock solid: Chelsea, with goalkeeper Petr Cech, have kept clean sheets in each of their last four Barclays Premier League away games.
Big match stats:
- West Brom have won just one of their last seven Barclays Premier League matches at the Hawthorns (W1 D4 L2).
- Chelsea have kept clean sheets in each of their last four Barclays Premier League away games.
- The Baggies have kept just three clean sheets in their last 22 Premier League games on home soil.
- Chelsea have won five and lost just one (D1) of their last seven Premier League games on the road.
- After losing their first 11 Premier League meetings with Chelsea, West Brom have lost just one of the last four (W2 D1 L1).
- Demba Ba has scored six goals in six Premier League appearances against West Brom; more than against any other opponent.
- The seven cautions that West Brom earned against Chelsea earlier this season is the most yellow cards they have ever picked up in a single Premier League game.
- Chelsea have scored 11 goals from outside the box in open play this season in the Premier League – more than any other side.
- Over a quarter (28% - 8/29) of the goals that West Brom have scored this season have come via substitutes – a league-high proportion.
- The Baggies have seen 16 different players score a Premier League goal for them this season; more than any other side in the competition.
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