Balanced ball game between Birmingham City and Bristol City expected

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Competition: England Championship
Date: Sat 10.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: St. Andrew's Stadium (30009 seats)

With the nervous opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Championship game of the season. Birmingham City look forward to welcoming Bristol City in front of their home support.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Birmingham City form and stats

A good away victory last time out for Birmingham City, who won 1-0 against Brentford. 0-0 away at Reading before that.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Birmingham City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eleven matches with the results: Won 2 Drawn 4 Lost 5.

Last season, Birmingham City's league statistics were 14 wins, 19 draws and 13 losses, resulting in a 17th position in the Championship. Over these 46 matches they scored 64 goals and conceded 58. Playing at home last season Birmingham City managed 7-11-5 (win-draw-lost) with 31 goals and 24 conceded.

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Bristol City form and stats

Bristol City failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Leeds United that ended with defeat 1-3. Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Hull City.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by Bristol City in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Bristol City, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

Bristol City has another fixture away, a Carabao Cup game, against Queens Park Rangers in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!

Let's have a look at how Bristol City performed last season in the Championship: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 19 victories, 13 draws and 14 defeats. In total they scored 59 and conceded 53 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 11 - drew 5 and lost 7 with 31/27 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 7 Birmingham City victories, 1 draw and 2 Bristol City wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 6 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

K. Pedersen
1 goals
A. Weimann
1 goals

Birmingham City missing players

Bristol City missing players

Birmingham City Bristol City
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs top Away Total
1 0 0 Played 0 0 1
1 0 0 Won 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost 0 0 1
1 0 0 Scored 0 0 1
0 0 0 Conceded 0 0 3
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed To Score 0% 0% 0%
 
2 0 0 Corners For (avg) 0 0 4
6 0 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 0 6
3 0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0 3
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Birmingham City Last season Bristol City
Total Home   Statistic   Away Total
46 23   Played   23 46
14 7   Won   11 19
19 11   Drew   5 13
13 5   Lost   7 14
64 31   Scored   31 59
58 24   Conceded   27 53
89% 87%   Over 0.5   96% 98%
72% 70%   Over 1.5   65% 70%
48% 43%   Over 2.5   39% 37%
35% 30%   Over 3.5   26% 22%
11% 4%   Over 4.5   22% 15%
57% 52%   BTTS   48% 54%
26% 30%   Clean Sheets   39% 28%
28% 30%   Failed To Score   17% 20%
 
5.6 5.9   Corners For (avg)   4.7 5.4
4.7 3.9   Corners Against (avg)   5.4 5
1.8 1.3   Yellow Cards (avg)   2.4 1.8
3 0   Red Cards   1 2
Key stats last season:
  • Bristol City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Birmingham City
All Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
05-05-19 CH Reading 0 - 0 Birmingham City
19-07-19 CF Swindon Town 6 - 1 Birmingham City
20-07-19 CF Bristol Rovers 1 - 2 Birmingham City
27-07-19 CF Birmingham City 0 - 4 Brighton & Hove Albion
03-08-19 CH Brentford 0 - 1 Birmingham City
06-08-19 CC Portsmouth 18:45 Birmingham City
10-08-19 CH Birmingham City 14:00 Bristol City
17-08-19 CH Nottingham Forest 14:00 Birmingham City
20-08-19 CH Birmingham City 18:45 Barnsley
25-08-19 CH Swansea City 11:00 Birmingham City
Bristol City
All Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
05-05-19 CH Hull City 1 - 1 Bristol City
09-07-19 CF AFC Wimbledon 2 - 3 Bristol City
24-07-19 CF Forest Green Rovers 3 - 4 Bristol City
27-07-19 CF Bristol City 0 - 5 Crystal Palace
04-08-19 CH Bristol City 1 - 3 Leeds United
10-08-19 CH Birmingham City 14:00 Bristol City
13-08-19 CC Queens Park Rangers 18:45 Bristol City
17-08-19 CH Bristol City 14:00 Queens Park Rangers
20-08-19 CH Derby County 18:45 Bristol City
24-08-19 CH Hull City 14:00 Bristol City

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Leeds United 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
2 Sheffield Wednesday 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
3 Barnsley 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Birmingham City 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
5 Charlton Athletic 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
6 Derby County 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
7 Millwall 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
8 Queens Park Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
9 Swansea City 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
10 West Bromwich Albion 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
11 Wigan Athletic 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
12 Luton Town 1 0 1 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
13 Middlesbrough 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 1
14 Blackburn Rovers 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
15 Brentford 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
16 Cardiff City 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
17 Fulham 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
18 Huddersfield Town 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
19 Hull City 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
20 Nottingham Forest 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
21 Preston North End 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
22 Stoke City 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
23 Bristol City 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
24 Reading 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0

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