Birmingham – Derby Picks & Prediction

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Birmingham - Derby Prediction, Picks and Tips

Birmingham City and Derby County meet at St Andrew's Trillion Trophy Stadium, in a match for the 22nd round of the Championship. In this stadium, the history of direct confrontations is favorable to the visiting team, which registers 3 wins and 1 draw in the last 4 matches. In fact, the last time these two teams played a match at this stadium was on 22‑07‑2020, for the Championship, which ended with the victory of Derby County by (1‑3). The goals of the match were scored by I. Šunjić (56 '), for Birmingham City, and L. Sibley (90'), G. Shinnie (6 ') and M. Whittaker (87'), for Derby County. Despite being a match between 17th and 22nd in the table, it is actually a clash between the 22nd-ranked in home games and the 17th away from home.

After 5 wins, 8 draws and 8 losses, the home team is currently in 17th position, with 23 points won. In their last match, they drew in an away match against Nottingham Forest by (0‑0), after losing in the previous match (1‑4) at home, against Middlesbrough. This is a team that tends to achieve more positive results away from home than at home, as they won 15 points away and 8 at home, with 9 goals scored and 8 suffered as away, against 8 goals scored and 15 suffered at home. For the championship, Birmingham City won 8 points out of a possible 30, after 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses in the last 10 games they played at their stadium. For this competition, they did not win any of the last 6 matches at their stadium. In their home league matches the most frequent final result at half-time was 0‑0 (5 out of 10 matches). In 21 games in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 6 times and never managed to come back. There is 1 period that stands out in the last 10 home matches for this competition: they have conceded 6 of their 15 goals between minutes (76' ‑ 90 '). Birmingham enters this game with a 0-0 draw, on the trip to Nottingham Forest's field, thus adding the fourth consecutive game without a win in this competition. In this game against Derby County, it is to be expected that coach Aitor Karanka favors maintaining possession of the ball and slow attacks, however, in some moments of the game he should give the initiative to his rival. Jérémie Bela is one of Birmingham's top scorers with 2 goals and 4 assists. All players are available for this game.

After 3 wins, 7 draws and 10 losses, the visiting team is currently in 22nd position, with 16 points won. In their last match, they lost to Preston North End at home by (0‑1), after having won at home in the previous match, in a match against Swansea City, by (2‑0). This is a team that tends to achieve more positive results away from home than at home, as they won 9 points away and 7 at home, with 5 goals scored and 9 suffered as away, against 5 goals scored and 14 suffered at home. In their last away match for this competition they drew (0‑0) against Brentford. In their last 9 away games for the championship, Derby County has 2 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses, for which they have won 9 points out of 27 possible. In their away league matches the most frequent final result at half ‑ time was 0‑0 (5 out of 11 matches). In their away matches for this competition there is a tendency to have few goals, since 5 of the last 9 they played ended with Under 1.5 goals. In 20 games in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 10 times and never got the comeback. In the last 10 home matches for all competitions there is 1 period that stands out: they have conceded 4 of their 9 goals between minutes (76' ‑ 90 '). Derby County comes to this game with a 1-0 loss to Preston, putting an end to the six consecutive games without losing in this second English division. The visiting team has an unattractive style of play, favoring the defensive organization and the counter-attacks of the runners: Kamil Jozwiak is very fast and very strong in transporting the ball to attack. Forward Colin Kazim-Richards manages to stand out with 2 goals scored. For this game Mr. Wayne Rooney cannot count on Martyn Waghorn, punished, in addition to Tom Lawrence and Curtis Davies, these injured.
Our recommendation tip for Birmingham - Derby : BTS / NO @ 1.66