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New signing Andy Slory has been included in the Albion squad after receiving international clearance.
MATCH PREVIEW
Third-placed West Brom, who have won five of their last eight matches, will go back into the automatic promotion places if they win on Wednesday.
Not only are the Baggies the top scorers in the Championship, they also boast an excellent away record and are unbeaten in their last eight league games on the road.
But Ian Holloway's Blackpool, who are seventh, are also very much part of the promotion race and have been in good goalscoring form themselves.
The Tangerines have lost only one of their last six league matches and have scored in each of their last 13 Championship games - currently the longest such sequence in the division.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
• West Brom completed a league double over Blackpool in 2007/08, when the two clubs were last in the same division.
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• Blackpool's 2-1 win at home to Albion in February 1993 is their last victory against the Baggies.
Blackpool
• Blackpool have picked up 26 of their 40 points this season at home.
• They have hit the woodwork on 17 occasions - more than any other team in the Championship.
• Goalkeeper Paul Rachubka is set to make his 250th club career appearance.
West Bromwich Albion
• West Brom have lost only once in their last nine games.
• Albion are the leading scorers in the Championship with 55 goals, and the third highest in the Football League, behind Norwich (64) and Rochdale (58).
• They have also had the most goal attempts in the Championship (396), and Blackpool the second most (386).
• Jerome Thomas is in line for his 100th league start.
MOST RECENT MEETING
Blackpool 1-3 West Brom (8 April 2008)
Blackpool scorer: Burgess 35.
West Brom scorers: Phillips 81 (pen), 84, Miller 87.
Source: BBC Sport
Source: BBC Sport