Birmingham City vs Blackpool Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Birmingham City

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Birmingham City prepare for this fixture following on from a 0-0 Championship stalemate versus Coventry City.

In that match, Birmingham City managed 35% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Coventry City had 13 shots on goal with 5 on target.

Lee Bowyer's Birmingham City have celebrated scoring 8 times in their past six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that they have conceded in that same time amounts to 5.

Blackpool

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In their last fixture, Blackpool drew 0-0 in the Championship match with West Bromwich Albion.

In that match, Blackpool managed 48% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. At the other end, West Bromwich Albion had 23 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

For 6 of the prior 6 clashes involving Blackpool, a relatively low number of goals have been hit between them and opposing sides. The overall average number of goals per game during that spell comes out as a mere 1.33, with the average goals for The Seasiders standing at 0.83. That pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, though.

Their prior results show that Blackpool:

• have not beaten Birmingham City when they've played them away from home in the last 5 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head to head clashes going back to 27/11/2012 shows us that Birmingham City have won 2 of these & Blackpool 1, with the number of draws standing at 3.

11 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 6 for The Blues and 5 coming from The Seasiders. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Championship match day 35 on 04/03/2015 and the score finished Birmingham City 1-0 Blackpool.

That time, Birmingham City had 45% possession and 13 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Andrew Shinnie (36').

On the other side, Blackpool got 15 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Stuart Attwell.

📰 Team News: Birmingham City

The Birmingham City boss Lee Bowyer has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash with a completely healthy squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: Blackpool

With a fully injury-free group available to choose from, the Blackpool boss Neil Critchley doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this match.

💭 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Blackpool must be fancied to get a goal against this Birmingham City lineup, although that possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid a loss.

We are anticipating a 2-1 winning margin for Birmingham City after 90 minutes. Should be an interesting one.

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Victor Martins, 01:32 23/11/2021