Crawley Town make the trip to St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park on Friday for the League One tie with home team Birmingham City.
Our Birmingham City v Crawley Town tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below (plus the best game odds).
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Birmingham City
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Birmingham City will be wanting a better result here following the 0-2 EFL Trophy loss in their previous game against Peterborough United.
Harley Mills (15') and Hector Kyprianou (45') scored for Peterborough United.
It has been all too rare in recent games where Birmingham City have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Birmingham City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 8 goals on the way. Nonetheless, time will tell if the trend shall continue on here in this match.
Heading into this fixture, Birmingham City have not been beaten in their last 23 league matches at home. A fantastic home record.
Crawley Town
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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Leyton Orient in League One competition, Crawley Town and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
The only name on the scoresheet from Crawley Town was Junior Quitirna (49'). Charlie Kelman (52', 53') and Jamie Donley (92') scored for Leyton Orient.
Illustrating their bias toward high-scoring matches, goals have been seen as many as 26 times in the last 6 matches in which Crawley Town have played, yielding a mean average of 4.33 goals per clash. Their opponents have managed 15 of those goals.
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Head to head
The previous league encounter between the two was League One match day 21 on 23/12/2024 and the score finished Crawley Town 0-1 Birmingham City.
The referee was Farai Hallam.
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Team News: Birmingham City
Ethan Laird (Hamstring injury), Seung-ho Paik (unknown injury) and Lee Buchanan (Knee injury) wonโt be playing for Birmingham City manager Chris Davies.
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Team News: Crawley Town
From a largely healthy squad, thereโs just the sole fitness worry for the Crawley Town manager Scott Lindsey to be concerned with. Ryan Sandford (Ankle ligament tear) wonโt be in action.
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Prediction
In our view, Crawley Town must be fancied to put one past this Birmingham City side, but that is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.
Our tip is for a close game with a 2-1 victory for Birmingham City at the end of the match. Itโs a very tough call.
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โฝ๏ธ What are the best odds for the game?
Turning to the betting odds on the win-draw-win market, backing Birmingham City is available for 1.3, betting on the game finishing all-square is 4.75 & staking on the winning team to be Crawley Town gets you 9.5. Theyโre the top prices on offer right now.
Andre Moura,
07:06 18/04/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
๐๏ธ Team Focus:
Birmingham City
Formed: 1875
Stadium: St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park (29,409)
Captain: Krystian Bielik
Chairman: Tom Wagner
Manager: Chris Davies
Competitions: League One position 1, EFL Trophy (Final)
๐ Key Player: Alfie May
Typically deployed in the Striker position, Alfie May was born in England. After making a first senior appearance for Doncaster Rovers in the 2016 - 2017 season, the goalscoring Forward has contributed 15 league goals in this League One 2024 - 2025 campaign so far in a total of 39 appearances.