The Championship match summary, better known as a league table, tells the truth about these participants up until now, with Birmingham City in front of Queens Park Rangers by 4 points. Here's the Tipsway preview:
- Birmingham City have not yet lost a game at home.
- Queens Park Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It's no vacation for neither Birmingham City nor Queens Park Rangers as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Birmingham City form and stats
Birmingham City have collected seven points from their first three Championship games here at St. Andrew's Stadium, a promising start.
Birmingham are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Preston North End. Midfielder Miyoshi was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.65 (out of ten) in that game. Miyoshi hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Watford (0-2).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Birmingham City have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 9 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 1 and lost 4.
Birmingham City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 3 games. Birmingham have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Queens Park Rangers form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.
Queens Park Rangers's last game was the home draw against Swansea City (1-1). As mentioned above, Queens Park Rangers drew the match against Swansea City. Manager Ainsworth brought on Dykes to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Attacker Chair got a player rating of 7.6 in the game. "Man of the match" Chair served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-3 defeat against Sunderland.QPR are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 6 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 14 matches.
The visiting Queens Park Rangers have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 5 goals from 4 games. QPR struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Data for the former ten meetings featuring these two squads are: four wins for Birmingham City, three draws and three wins for Queens Park Rangers. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Stansfield 3 goals |  Lukas Jutkiewicz 2 goals |   K. Paal 2 goals |
Birmingham City missing players
Queens Park Rangers missing players
| Birmingham City | Queens Park Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 86% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 57% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 57% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 4.1 | 5.7 | 1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.2 | 3.7 |
| 6.1 | 5.7 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 8 | 7.1 |
| 2.4 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.9 | 13 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 8.2 | 8.4 |
| 4 | 3.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3.1 |
| 29% | 40% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 42% | 32% |
| 10.6 | 10.7 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 15.2 | 15.4 |
| 3.6 | 4 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 7.2 | 6.1 |
- All of Queens Park Rangers's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Birmingham City have not yet lost a game at home.
- Birmingham City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Birmingham City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Queens Park Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Queens Park Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Preston North End | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 19 |
| 2 | Ipswich Town | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 18 |
| 3 | Leicester City | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 | Norwich City | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | Bristol City | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| 6 | Hull City | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Birmingham City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| 8 | Sunderland | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 9 | Cardiff City | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| 10 | Blackburn Rovers | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 10 |
| 11 | Southampton | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 10 |
| 12 | Leeds United | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 13 | Watford | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 14 | West Bromwich Albion | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 15 | Coventry City | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| 16 | Plymouth Argyle | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -1 | 7 |
| 17 | Huddersfield Town | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -4 | 7 |
| 18 | Millwall | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 7 |
| 19 | Queens Park Rangers | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 20 | Stoke City | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 21 | Rotherham United | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 4 |
| 22 | Swansea City | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
| 23 | Sheffield Wednesday | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 2 |
| 24 | Middlesbrough | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 2 |
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