📊 Form Guide

Birmingham City

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Birmingham City will be looking for another win after the 2-1 Championship victory against Preston North End.

In that match, Birmingham City managed 50% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Birmingham City, goals were scored by Jay Stansfield (10') and Ibrahim Osman (16'). Preston North End had 18 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Andrew Hughes (25') scored for Preston North End.

Under three goals per game were seen in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Birmingham City have been involved. Regarding the goal split in this period, opposition teams scored a total of 6 and Birmingham City totted up 5. We will just have to see if that trend will be sustained in this game.

Coming into this fixture, Birmingham City have not emerged victorious against Bristol City in their last 2 league matches.

Bristol City

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In their last fixture, Bristol City drew 2-2 in the Championship tie with Southampton.

In that match, Bristol City had 46% possession and 8 shots at goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Bristol City was Sam Bell (63'). On the other side, Southampton got 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. Ryan Manning (5' Own goal), Cyle Larin (29') and Ross Stewart (74') scored for Southampton.

Roy Hodgson's Bristol City have fired home 7 times in the course of their latest 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during that same period equals 8.

Looking at their past form shows that Bristol City:

• have not won against Birmingham City in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 4 away league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes going back to 05/03/2022 shows that Birmingham City have won 3 of them and Bristol City 2, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

In all, 15 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them for The Blues and 6 for The Robins. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The previous league meeting between the two was Championship match day 12 on 25/10/2025 when the final score was Bristol City 1-0 Birmingham City.

That time, Bristol City managed 28% possession and 5 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Their only player to score was Sinclair Armstrong (42').

On the other side, Birmingham City had 13 shots on goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by James Linington.

🗞️ Team News: Birmingham City

It seems likely that The Blues will possibly opt for a 4-2-3-1 formation this time, handing starts to James Beadle, Ethan Laird, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Kai Wagner, Seung-ho Paik, Jhon Solís, Carlos Vicente, Jay Stansfield, Demarai Gray and August Priske.

📰 Team News: Bristol City

We’re of the thinking that The Robins seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Radek Vítek, Ross McCrorie, Noah Eile, Neto Borges, Cameron Pring, Sam Morsy, Jason Knight, Scott Twine, Tomi Horvat, Samuel Bell and Delano Burgzorg.

🔮 Prediction

We’re of the view that Bristol City have the capability to put one past this Birmingham City lineup, but it isn’t expected to be enough to avoid defeat.

We can see a 2-1 win for Birmingham City at the end of the match. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Renata Leite, 13:04 25/04/2026