Struggling Birmingham City will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Middlesbrough in the upcoming league round. It’s 17th vs 7th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Birmingham City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
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
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Championship this season. Birmingham City have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses from their games here at St. Andrew's Stadium. Birmingham are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at St. Andrew's Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.
No payout for Birmingham in their previous match, an away game at Cardiff City that ended in defeat 2-3. Preceding that match was the home game against Watford that was lost 0-1.
Birmingham have scored 7 league goals here from 9 matches, not a lot. Birmingham's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Middlesbrough form and stats
Middlesbrough have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Championship, after 1-4-4 (9 played). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Middlesbrough's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Middlesbrough have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli. It's been 187 minutes since they last conceded in Championship.
Middlesbrough are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Championship against Luton Town (placed 13th). A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Millwall.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Middlesbrough as they have only managed to score 5 times from 9 away games in the league. 10 goals have been conceded by Middlesbrough in these games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Birmingham City-Middlesbrough H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Birmingham City one win, Middlesbrough five wins, four draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  D. Watmore 4 goals |  M. Johnson 3 goals |  B. Assombalonga 3 goals |
Birmingham City missing players
Middlesbrough missing players
| Birmingham City | Middlesbrough | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 20 |
| 19 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 10 | 14 |
| 79% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 78% | 84% |
| 53% | 56% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 44% | 53% |
| 37% | 44% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 22% | 32% |
| 11% | 11% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 5% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 5% |
| 53% | 56% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 32% |
| 32% | 22% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 47% |
| 37% | 33% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 56% | 37% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.9 | 10.7 | 11.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.3 | 11.2 |
| 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 1.9 | 3 |
| 33% | 32% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 29% | 35% |
- Birmingham City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Norwich City | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 40 |
| 2 | AFC Bournemouth | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 35 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 37 |
| 3 | Watford | 19 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 34 |
| 4 | Swansea City | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 33 |
| 5 | Reading | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 33 |
| 6 | Brentford | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 32 |
| 7 | Middlesbrough | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 30 |
| 8 | Stoke City | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 30 |
| 9 | Bristol City | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 30 |
| 10 | Cardiff City | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 29 |
| 11 | Blackburn Rovers | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 28 |
| 12 | Barnsley | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 28 |
| 13 | Luton Town | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -4 | 26 |
| 14 | Huddersfield Town | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -5 | 25 |
| 15 | Millwall | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 24 |
| 16 | Preston North End | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 18 | -4 | 23 |
| 17 | Birmingham City | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -3 | 22 |
| 18 | Coventry City | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -7 | 22 |
| 19 | Queens Park Rangers | 19 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 19 |
| 20 | Rotherham United | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | -9 | 16 |
| 21 | Nottingham Forest | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 13 | -11 | 16 |
| 22 | Derby County | 19 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -12 | 16 |
| 23 | Wycombe Wanderers | 19 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 19 | -17 | 11 |
| 24 | Sheffield Wednesday | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 14 | -11 | 9 |
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