Birmingham City vs Huddersfield Town match preview: Even contest expected at St. Andrew's Stadium

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Fri 05.August
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: St. Andrew's Stadium (30009 seats)

It's the second attempt for points this season as Birmingham City and Huddersfield Town fight it out at St. Andrew's Stadium.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Birmingham City form and stats

The season before, Birmingham City's league stats were 11 wins, 14 draws and 21 losses, leading to 20th spot in the Championship. In these 46 matches they scored 50 goals and conceded 75. Playing as the home side in the previous season Birmingham City produced 7-6-10 (win-draw-lost) with 27 goals and 33 conceded.

Birmingham travelled for their previous game, a trip to Luton Town that ended 0-0. Ruddy, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.84 out of 10 in that game. Ruddy topped it up with a clean sheet.

Preceding that match was the home game against Blackburn Rovers that was lost 1-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Birmingham City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Birmingham City as a small favourite), we find 12 games. Birmingham City has won 2 of these, drawn 4 and lost 6.

There will be little rest for Birmingham City after this match as they are travelling to Norwich City for a Carabao Cup game in only four days.

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Huddersfield Town form and stats

Let's have a look at how Huddersfield Town performed last season in the Championship: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 23 victories, 13 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 64 and conceded 47 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 10 - drew 7 and lost 6 with 29/24 goals scored/conceded.

Huddersfield are looking to quickly end their 188 minutes long goal drought in the Championship.

The manager Schofield was unhappy after their last game, played at their home stadium The John Smith's Stadium. Huddersfield Town suffered a 0-1 loss to Burnley (placed 5th). Huddersfield Town goalie Nicholls enjoyed a fine day against Burnley, but even with making six saves the defeat could not be avoided.

A loss against Nottingham Forest was the result prior to that, in a home game.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Huddersfield Town playing away and similar expectations, we found 16 relevant matches. Results were 4 Huddersfield wins, 7 draws and 5 defeats.

A new game in only four days for Huddersfield Town, the Carabao Cup home match versus Preston North End. Busy days.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Birmingham City two wins, five draws and Huddersfield Town three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Birmingham City missing players

Huddersfield Town missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Birmingham City Huddersfield Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 1
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 100%
 
6 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 1
9 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 5
3 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 2
3 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
15 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 16
5 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 6
Birmingham City Last season Huddersfield Town
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
46 23   Played P   24 49
11 7   Won W   10 24
14 6   Drew D   8 14
21 10   Lost L   6 11
50 27   Scored S   30 66
75 33   Conceded C   25 49
87% 87%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   88% 90%
78% 78%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   71% 71%
54% 61%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   42% 41%
28% 22%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   12% 16%
11% 9%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   8% 10%
48% 48%   BTTS BTTS   50% 45%
30% 35%   Clean Sheets C S   33% 41%
35% 30%   Failed to Score F T   29% 24%
 
4.3 4.7   Corners for (avg) C F   4 4.5
5.3 4.6   Corners against (avg) C A   5.8 4.9
1.8 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.5
4 1   Red cards R C   0 0
 
11.6 11.4   Shots (avg) S (   10.5 10.8
3.6 3.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.7 3.9
30% 36%   Goal Efficiency G E   34% 35%
 
11.1 9.6   Shots against (avg) S A   14.4 12.7
4.3 4.1   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.2 4.2

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Millwall 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
2 Hull City 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
3 Blackburn Rovers 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Blackpool 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Burnley 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
6 Cardiff City 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
7 Middlesbrough 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Rotherham United 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
9 Swansea City 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
10 West Bromwich Albion 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
11 Birmingham City 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
12 Luton Town 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
13 Preston North End 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
14 Wigan Athletic 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
15 Coventry City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Sheffield United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Sunderland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Watford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Bristol City 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
20 Huddersfield Town 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
21 Norwich City 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
22 Queens Park Rangers 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
23 Reading 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
24 Stoke City 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fulham 46 27 9 10 106 43 23 14 4 5 56 20 23 13 5 5 50 23 63 90
2 AFC Bournemouth 46 25 13 8 74 39 23 13 7 3 41 21 23 12 6 5 33 18 35 88
3 Huddersfield Town 46 23 13 10 64 47 23 13 6 4 35 23 23 10 7 6 29 24 17 82
4 Nottingham Forest 46 23 11 12 73 40 23 13 4 6 43 22 23 10 7 6 30 18 33 80
5 Sheffield United 46 21 12 13 63 45 23 13 5 5 38 15 23 8 7 8 25 30 18 75
6 Luton Town 46 21 12 13 63 55 23 12 7 4 37 22 23 9 5 9 26 33 8 75
7 Middlesbrough 46 20 10 16 59 50 23 14 2 7 34 21 23 6 8 9 25 29 9 70
8 Blackburn Rovers 46 19 12 15 59 50 23 12 5 6 36 26 23 7 7 9 23 24 9 69
9 Millwall 46 18 15 13 53 45 23 13 6 4 32 16 23 5 9 9 21 29 8 69
10 West Bromwich Albion 46 18 13 15 52 45 23 12 8 3 33 16 23 6 5 12 19 29 7 67
11 Queens Park Rangers 46 19 9 18 60 59 23 10 6 7 30 25 23 9 3 11 30 34 1 66
12 Coventry City 46 17 13 16 60 59 23 10 5 8 32 26 23 7 8 8 28 33 1 64
13 Preston North End 46 16 16 14 52 56 23 9 10 4 33 28 23 7 6 10 19 28 -4 64
14 Stoke City 46 17 11 18 57 52 23 10 5 8 30 23 23 7 6 10 27 29 5 62
15 Swansea City 46 16 13 17 58 68 23 9 8 6 30 27 23 7 5 11 28 41 -10 61
16 Blackpool 46 16 12 18 54 58 23 11 3 9 29 26 23 5 9 9 25 32 -4 60
17 Bristol City 46 15 10 21 62 77 23 8 8 7 33 29 23 7 2 14 29 48 -15 55
18 Cardiff City 46 15 8 23 50 68 23 7 4 12 22 29 23 8 4 11 28 39 -18 53
19 Hull City 46 14 9 23 41 54 23 7 4 12 22 28 23 7 5 11 19 26 -13 51
20 Birmingham City 46 11 14 21 50 75 23 7 6 10 27 33 23 4 8 11 23 42 -25 47
21 Reading 46 13 8 25 54 87 23 7 5 11 33 44 23 6 3 14 21 43 -33 41
22 Peterborough United 46 9 10 27 43 87 23 6 7 10 27 33 23 3 3 17 16 54 -44 37
23 Derby County 46 14 13 19 45 53 23 11 7 5 30 22 23 3 6 14 15 31 -8 34
24 Barnsley 46 6 12 28 33 73 23 5 7 11 18 29 23 1 5 17 15 44 -40 30

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Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Millwall 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
2 Hull City 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
3 Blackburn Rovers 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Blackpool 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Burnley 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
6 Cardiff City 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
7 Middlesbrough 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Rotherham United 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
9 Swansea City 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
10 West Bromwich Albion 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
11 Birmingham City 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
12 Luton Town 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
13 Preston North End 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
14 Wigan Athletic 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
15 Coventry City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Sheffield United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Sunderland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Watford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Bristol City 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
20 Huddersfield Town 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
21 Norwich City 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
22 Queens Park Rangers 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
23 Reading 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
24 Stoke City 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0

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