Lucky 13th with Northern Ireland for Chris Brunt
West Brom captain Chris Brunt is desperate to make it 13th time lucky for Northern Ireland and deliver a long overdue victory at Windsor Park.
The team's winless run currently stands at 12 matches, half of which have been on home turf.
They last triumphed in Belfast in August 2011, when then boss Nigel Worthington led his side to a 4-0 defeat of the Faroe Islands.
His successor, Michael O'Neill, has yet to experience victory in eight matches at the helm but has two more chances coming up with Russia's visit tomorrow, followed by that of Israel four days later.
And Brunt, who admits his frustration at home draws to Group F minnows Luxembourg and Azerbaijan, knows how important it would be to kick off that double header in a positive fashion.
"We need to get that win," said the Baggies midfielder. "We have been improving under Michael and we have been difficult to beat but now it's about getting that first win to kick-start things.
"Results at Windsor Park have been frustrating, we could be sitting with four extra points.
"We got a point we probably didn't expect to have when we drew in Portugal but we'd rather be sitting here with two wins from the home games.
"We're not conceding many goals but you have to go the other way as well and try to win games.
"Tomorrow would be a good time to start."
Russia are hardly the ideal opposition for a side looking to reverse a morale-sapping sequence of results.
Fabio Capello's team have maximum points from their first four matches in World Cup qualifying and have yet to concede.