West Brom and Burnley's recent woes in front of goal continued as both sides played to a goalless draw at The Hawthorns in the Championship. Carlos Corberan's side has now failed to score in their last four home games and did not register a shot on target in the first half on Thursday, while Burnley found it equally as hard in front of goal. However, West Brom had Alex Palmer to thank when he stopped Jeremy Sarmiento one-on-one.
Burnley seemed to want the win more and had a goal chalked off in rather controversial fashion as Jaidon Anthony's seemingly perfect header was belatedly ruled out by referee Tom Nield before Lucas Pires found the goal frame. Neither side was able to find the back of the net again which meant their respective winless and scoreless runs continued. The hosts posed the first threat of the contest when Darnell Furlong swept a deep cross towards the back post and an unmarked John Swift, who volleyed over the crossbar.
Burnley were the brighter of the two in the opening quarter and began to put more pressure on the hosts' goalmouth, Pires blasting wide from distance with another early warning shot. The away side should have opened the scoring before the half-hour mark as Swift's poor backpass put Sarmiento through on goal but he was heroically denied by a scrambling Palmer. The Baggies rode the storm and started to grow into the contest themselves.
Callum Styles gave himself space and let fly from 20 yards with an effort that flew marginally over the uprigh.