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Friday, 19 August 2022

Any Previous? - Birmingham City v Latics

Latics and Birmingham City have met 25 times down the years, with us just having the better of things with 9 wins and 9 draws, 3 of those wins coming at St Andrews.

 


The first time we met Birmingham City was an FA Cup 3rd round tie, played on the 7th January 1978. Northern Premier League, Latics taking on a top flight side managed by World Cup winning manager, Sir Alf Ramsey.

Latics put up a spirited performance but goals from Trevor Francis (2) and Keith Bertschin (2) gave the home side a flattering scoreline of 4:0

 

The last meeting also came at St Andrews, New Years Day 2020, this time the Latics came away with the win, 2:3, courtesy of two Josh Wandass goals and a Cedric Kipre effort.

Latics – Jones; Byrne, Kipre, Naismith (Dunkley), Robinson; Morsy, Williams, Evans; Jacobs, Lowe (Roberts); Windass

Unused Subs – Marshall, Massey, Pilkington, Garner, Gelhardt

Att – 18,616


Birmingham City Current Form

Birmingham City have started the season off not too badly, currently 12th  in the table with 5 points from 4 games, 1 win, 2 draws and just the 1 defeat which came away at Cardiff.

 

Last season, Birmingham City’s 23 home games brought 27 points from 7 wins, 6 draws and 10 defeats, this season’s 2 home games have brought a win and a draw.

 

Player To Watch – Scott Hogan

Scott Hogan

The Irlam born striker exploded into League Football at Rochdale before moving onto Brentford and Aston Villa. Of his 244 games so far 200 have come in the Championship.

A physical striker initially signing on loan in January 2020, Scott Hogan has been a consistent performer for Birmingham City, he made his loan move a permanent one in September 2020 signing a four year deal with the Blues.

The 30 year old had a good campaign last season, scoring 10 goals and making 1 assists, those 10 goals came from just 46 attempts and Hogan has started the new season off with 1 goal from 2 attempts and 1 assist so far.

 

 

The Last Six Meetings

Date

Competition

Result

01 Jan 2020

Championship

Birmingham 2:3 Latics

01 Oct 2019

Championship

Latics 1:0 Birmingham

27 Apr 2019

Championship

Birmingham 1:1 Latics

22 Dec 2018

Championship

Latics 0:3 Birmingham

07 Mar 2017

Championship

Birmingham 0:1 Latics

16 Aug 2016

Championship

Birmingham 1:1 Latics

 

Full Record v Birmingham City

Played – 25

Won – 9

Drawn – 9

Lost – 7

 

Grab a listen to this week’s podcast featuring a preview of the big game.

 


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