H2H: Birmingham City vs Huddersfield Town – Prediction (Championship

H2H: Birmingham v Huddersfield – Comparison.

Jérémie Bela has scored Birmingham’s only two home league goals this term, already matching his total after 30 Championship appearances last season. Huddersfield’s Frazier Campbell has netted six goals in as many appearances against Birmingham, and scored in both fixtures last season. Though Birmingham are winless in eight of the last nine H2Hs, manager Aitor Karanka has never lost against Huddersfield (W4, D1). The last three wins came ‘to nil’ and by a 2+ margin.

Birmingham Insights.

Birmingham City’s frustrating winless run continued at QPR last time out (D4, L2) though this isn’t a characteristic of a Aitor Karanka-managed side, as the Spaniard has an overall unbeaten rate of 69.87%. Subsequently, Karanka has won just one of his opening eight competitive games in charge of Birmingham, though he did the same in his last role before an emphatic 5-2 win in the ninth. All of Birmingham’s league games this term have produced under 2.5 goals, making for a paltry average of 1.0 total goals per game. Consequently, all but one of those Championship matches saw a goalless first half (HT: W1, D6) though the only first-half strike came here at St Andrew’s, where the ‘Blues’ shipped the opener in two of three outings.

Huddersfield Insights.

An upturn in form sees Huddersfield Town boast a split Championship record heading into this clash (W3, D1, L3), though their four-match unbeaten streak ended last time out when they scored first but lost 2-1. Whilst Huddersfield are outsiders for this, they have avoided defeat in 47.22% of such league games since the start of last term (W9, D8, L19). Should the ‘Terriers’ prevail here, it would be the first time in which they registered consecutive away league victories since their last promotion campaign (2016/17). Moreover, you have to look back even further to find their last consecutive league wins over Birmingham (1967).