England - ChampionshipStarWelcome to the Turboscores match preview of the upcoming match between West Bromwich Albion and Birmingham City, taking place on Saturday, 03 February 2024, at The Hawthorns in West Bromwich.
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West Bromwich Albion, Recent FormThere will be a feeling of disappointment amongst the West Bromwich Albion players having failed to take any points away from their recent 2-0 away defeat at the hands of Norwich City. They achieved 60% possession in that match and had 15 strikes at goal, with 3 hitting the target, up against Norwich City's tally of 13 efforts at goal, 6 of which were on target.
While they have been reasonably effective at circumventing their opponents defence, scoring 6 in their last 6 games, it's largely been tit for tat with their own defence proving to be equally ineffectual, conceding 5, and leading to valuable points being dropped. When playing at home this season, they've notched up 7 clean sheets.
Winning 4 and being undefeated in 5 of their last 6 league games at The Hawthorns, marks a good spell of home form for West Bromwich Albion.
Brandon Thomas-Asante will be aiming to add his name to the scoresheet again to extend his goal tally of 3 goals in the last 6 league outings for West Bromwich Albion.
Birmingham City, Recent FormBirmingham City will be happy to take away 3 points from their last match, with an important 2-1 away win against Stoke City. In that game they had 29% possession and managed 9 attempts on goal, with 5 on target, compared to Stoke City who had 22 attempts and 5 on target.
Supremo Tony Mowbray will be closely scrutinising his squad's defensive frailties, his back line having shipped 12 goals in their last 6 matches, despite having picked up some points through the 8 goals they've managed to net. They have scored in 4 of their last 6 away games but failed to keep a clean sheet in 5 of those games.
They've had a less than ideal run of form recently, winning just 1 of their last 6 games.
With 3 goals scored in his last 6 away games for Birmingham City, Juninho Bacuna will be looking to add more goals against West Bromwich Albion in this match.
It ended in disappointment and a 3-1 defeat for West Bromwich Albion last time they met Birmingham City in the league, with The Blues defying the odds to take the win.
In each of the previous 4 matches against The Blues, West Brom have let in at least one goal.
Birmingham will be looking to continue their winning streak against West Brom having won in their last 4 meetings in the league.
With 3 goals notched up from the last 3 league meetings against West Brom at their home ground The Hawthorns, Birmingham man Scott Hogan will be looking for more of the same in this one.
With only Josh Maja (Ankle) and Matt Phillips (Hamstring) the main fitness concerns ahead of this fixture, Carlos Corberán will be happy to have an otherwise healthy squad to pick from.
Tony Mowbray has a number of injury concerns in his Birmingham squad to contend with: Alfie Chang (Knee), George Hall (Hamstring), Ethan Laird (Groin) and Marc Roberts (Unknown)
West Bromwich Albion Playing at home | Birmingham City Playing away from home | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.7 | Goals scored | 1 |
| 0.8 | Goals conceded | 1.9 |
| 34' | Time first goal scored | 40' |
| 46' | Time first goal conceded | 51' |
| 1.4 | Yellow cards | 2.9 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0.1 |
| 4.6 | Subs used | 4.1 |
| 4-1 | Biggest victory | 2-0 |
| 2-1 | Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
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