Championship: The average league table placements illustrates the road Birmingham City and Swansea City have been on uptil now. Both teams are ready for the game; let's go!
- Birmingham City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Swansea City have the most points from losing position (12) in Championship
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Birmingham and Swansea City.
Birmingham City form and stats
Birmingham City have played 9 Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-4-2 (wins-draws-losses).
A strong away win for Birmingham City against Stoke City the last match, as Dean and Hogan were on target. Ruddy loved the game against Stoke City. With a stunning seven saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 2-1 victory.
In the match before that, Birmingham hosted Millwall and drew the game 0-0.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 7 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 3 and lost 2.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Birmingham City, as the Championship home game vs Sunderland is only three days away.
Birmingham has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. From these home matches, Birmingham City have conceded only 6 goals.
Swansea City form and stats
The visitors are W3-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Championship.
There were no winners in Swansea's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Wigan Athletic (placed 23rd). Swansea City's last match (vs Wigan Athletic) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 0-2. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw after 90 minutes thanks to a 84th minute equalizer by Piroe. Manning got a match rating of 8.4 in that game, top player of the team. Manning scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Preston North End's place.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Swansea City in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Swansea City, 7 draws and 4 defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Championship trip to Huddersfield Town.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Swansea City have scored 10 goals in 9 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Swansea have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Birmingham City have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (2-2-0) when playing Swansea City.Top Goalscorers
  S. Hogan 8 goals |   J. Piroe 5 goals |  J. Ntcham 4 goals |
Birmingham City missing players
Swansea City missing players
| Birmingham City | Swansea City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 25 |
| 16 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 13 | 26 |
| 84% | 78% | 33% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 63% | 67% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 78% | 79% |
| 32% | 33% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 44% | 53% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 22% | 26% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 42% | 44% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 53% |
| 37% | 44% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 21% |
| 37% | 33% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 26% |
| 4.8 | 5.1 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 11 | 6.1 | 6.2 |
| 5.3 | 5.6 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.7 | 4.5 |
| 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.7 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9.8 | 10.3 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 11.1 | 12.1 |
| 3 | 3.1 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 35% | 36% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | 33% |
| 12.3 | 10.9 | 9.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 10.7 | 9.3 |
| 3.5 | 2.6 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.1 | 3.4 |
- Birmingham City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Swansea City have the most points from losing position (12) in Championship
- Swansea City 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 | Burnley | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 37 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 38 |
| 2 | Blackburn Rovers | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 36 |
| 3 | Sheffield United | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 34 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 35 |
| 4 | Norwich City | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 32 |
| 5 | Queens Park Rangers | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 31 |
| 6 | Preston North End | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 31 |
| 7 | Watford | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 29 |
| 8 | Luton Town | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 29 |
| 9 | Swansea City | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -1 | 29 |
| 10 | Millwall | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 28 |
| 11 | Birmingham City | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 27 |
| 12 | Reading | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -6 | 26 |
| 13 | Sunderland | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 24 |
| 14 | Cardiff City | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -6 | 24 |
| 15 | Coventry City | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 23 |
| 16 | Bristol City | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 19 | -2 | 23 |
| 17 | Rotherham United | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -2 | 22 |
| 18 | Blackpool | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -5 | 22 |
| 19 | Stoke City | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | -5 | 22 |
| 20 | Middlesbrough | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | -1 | 21 |
| 21 | Hull City | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 21 | 35 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 17 | -14 | 21 |
| 22 | West Bromwich Albion | 19 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | -2 | 20 |
| 23 | Wigan Athletic | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | -9 | 20 |
| 24 | Huddersfield Town | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 15 |
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