Birmingham City will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind AFC Bournemouth.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Birmingham City form and stats
2-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Championship numbers at home for Birmingham City so far this season.
Birmingham's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Wycombe Wanderers (placed 22nd). A strong away win before that one, visiting Preston North End and winning 2-1.
Heartbreak for Birmingham in their last match as Wycombe Wanderers's K. Pedersen (own goal) scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
Birmingham are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 5 games. Birmingham have conceded 5 in these home matches.
AFC Bournemouth form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Bournemouth, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Sheffield Wednesday (placed 24th). Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Derby County.
AFC Bournemouth have scored 6 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league. Bournemouth have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Last six meetings between the teams: Birmingham won one, AFC Bournemouth won five and zero draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Groeneveld 3 goals |   J. Bela 2 goals |  G. Gardner 2 goals |
Birmingham City missing players
AFC Bournemouth missing players
| Birmingham City | AFC Bournemouth | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 60% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 80% | 60% |
| 30% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 40% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 113 | 64 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 15 | 69 | 122 |
| 30 | 16 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 27 | 45 |
| 27% | 31% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 22% | 27% |
- AFC Bournemouth have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- AFC Bournemouth haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Birmingham City has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Championship
- Birmingham City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Birmingham City haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Reading | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 22 |
| 2 | Swansea City | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | Norwich City | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
| 4 | Watford | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 18 |
| 5 | AFC Bournemouth | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| 6 | Middlesbrough | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| 7 | Bristol City | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| 8 | Millwall | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
| 9 | Luton Town | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 16 |
| 10 | Brentford | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| 11 | Stoke City | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 15 |
| 12 | Preston North End | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 13 | Cardiff City | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| 14 | Birmingham City | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| 15 | Huddersfield Town | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -1 | 13 |
| 16 | Queens Park Rangers | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 13 |
| 17 | Blackburn Rovers | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 11 |
| 18 | Barnsley | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -3 | 10 |
| 19 | Rotherham United | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 9 |
| 20 | Nottingham Forest | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 9 |
| 21 | Coventry City | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -10 | 8 |
| 22 | Wycombe Wanderers | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -11 | 7 |
| 23 | Derby County | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -9 | 6 |
| 24 | Sheffield Wednesday | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | -1 |
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