If you're not conceding goals and you lose form, you draw games. If you're shipping goals and you lose form, you plummet down the league. I don't see them in the playoffs.
Watched a couple of games at the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh. Poor football and quiet crowds - but quite impressive stadium. No idea who was playing and I can't remember the scores either (bad fan).
I may have read the rules incorrectly, but if the first Albion goal scorer is an own goal, then for the purposes of this competition, the next scorer will be the one recognised as "first scorer". So if it's 2 goals for the Albion and it's an own goal and then Barnes, Barnes would be the first...