Manchester City vs Birmingham City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Manchester City

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Manchester City, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-2 EFL Cup success against Manchester United.

In that match, Manchester City managed 61% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Manchester City, the scorers were John Stones (50') and Fernandinho (83'). Manchester United had 11 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Manchester City haven’t had any problems with scoring, netting in each and every one of their last 6 matches.

They’ve totted up the amount of 13 during that time and have conceded a total of 3. We shall soon find out if that trend will be sustained into this next match.

Birmingham City

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After tasting defeat last time out to Blackburn Rovers in Championship action, Birmingham City and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Birmingham City managed 54% possession and 7 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. At the other end, Blackburn Rovers got 11 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Adam Armstrong (10') and Bradley Dack (92') scored for Blackburn Rovers.

The stats tell the story, and Birmingham City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 14 goals in all. Defensively, The Blues have clearly had some problems.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 29/03/2008 shows that Manchester City have won 2 of these games & Birmingham City 1, with the tally of drawn games being 3.

16 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 10 from The Citizens and 6 created by The Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

📋 Team News: Manchester City

Philippe Sandler (Knee Surgery) and Eric García (Corona virus) won’t be able to feature for Man City gaffer Pep Guardiola.

📰 Team News: Birmingham City

With a completely healthy squad available to choose from, Birmingham City manager Aitor Karanka doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash.

💡 Prediction

It looks to us that Manchester City can and should dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

In contrast, Birmingham City won’t find it easy to make a breakthrough but do we see them managing to get on the scoresheet as well here.

Accordingly, we see a comfortable 3-1 victory for Manchester City when all’s said and done.

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Victor Martins, 00:10 06/01/2021