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Predictions and Tips
Wigan visit St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park on Saturday for the League One fixture with home side Birmingham City.
To see all of our predictions, user poll & stats for Birmingham City v Wigan Athletic, scroll down - as well as up-to-date odds.
📏 Form Guide
Birmingham City
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Birmingham City will be hoping for a better result following the 0-2 EFL Cup defeat last time out to Fulham.
In that game, Birmingham City managed 57% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Fulham had 8 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Raúl Jiménez (10') and Jay Stansfield (14') scored for Fulham.
In their prior six games, Chris Davies's Birmingham City have scored 8 times - an average number of goals per match of 1.33.
Their prior results show that Birmingham City:
- haven't won against Wigan Athletic in their last 5 league games.
- are undefeated in their last 3 home league matches.
Wigan Athletic
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Wigan go into this meeting following on from a 1-0 League One win vs Crawley Town in their previous fixture.
Joy Mukena (30' Own goal) was the scorer for Crawley Town.
For 5 of the previous six games involving Wigan Athletic, a relatively low number of goals have been scored between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game within that period works out to a meagre 1.83, with the average goals for The Latics being 1.
Coming into this fixture, Wigan Athletic remain undefeated by Birmingham City when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. A very good run of results for them.
👥 Head to head
Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 22/12/2018 shows us that Birmingham City have won 1 of them & Wigan 3, with the tally of drawn results being 2.
A combined sum of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 7 of them for The Blues and 7 coming from The Latics. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.
The last league fixture between these sides was Championship match day 35 on 04/03/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Wigan Athletic 1-1 Birmingham City.
On that day, Wigan Athletic had 72% possession and 7 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Ashley Fletcher (59').
Birmingham City had 13 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Juninho Bacuna (4') scored.
The match was refereed by Stephen Martin.
ℹ️ Team News: Wigan
Wigan boss Shaun Maloney has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Luke Robinson (Knee injury) and Tyrese Francois (Muscle injury) miss out here.
💭 Prediction
Wigan Athletic will have a tough assignment to find the back of the net against a Birmingham City team who certainly have the ability to boss most aspects of this game if it turns out as we expect.
We’re going for a 3-0 winning margin for Birmingham City when all is said and done.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira, 13:03 31/08/2024
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?
🏟️ 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 5, EFL Trophy (Group A - South)
🔑 Star Man: Alfie May
Typically taking up the Striker position, Alfie May was born in England. Having played his first senior match for Doncaster Rovers in the 2016 - 2017 season, the skilful Forward has scored a sum of 3 league goals in this League One 2024 - 2025 campaign so far in a total of 3 appearances.
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 4 | LWDWL |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 4 | WDWDL |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 | LWLLL |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 0 | DLLLL |
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