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NOR3Birmingham City - Wolverhampton Wanderers
Birmingham City v Wolverhampton Wanderers preview
Birmingham City host Wolverhampton Wanderers at St. Andrew's on Sunday with both sides positioned in the top ten after four matches. The hosts sit tenth on six points from four played, one point and one place behind Wolves in ninth.
Form lines point different ways
Birmingham have drawn three of their last five recent matches, won one and lost one, the defeat a heavy 1-6 reverse against Brentford on 25 August. Wolves have won three of their last five, drawn one and lost one, the defeat coming 2-4 to West Ham in their most recent outing on 1 September. A win for Birmingham would lift them to nine points from five; Wolves would reach ten points from five with three points, enough to join the cluster of five sides on that mark at the top of the early table.
The five meetings between these sides contained ten goals in total. Birmingham have won one of those five, drawn one and lost three, including defeats in the two most recent encounters, 0-2 on 15 April 2018 and 0-1 on 4 December 2017. The sole Birmingham win in this sequence came 2-1 on 24 February 2017. Our archive includes Birmingham City v Bristol City: Championship opener, a match Birmingham drew 2-2 on 22 August.
The market view
The market-implied probability gives Wolves a 38.2 per cent chance of winning, Birmingham 32.4 per cent and the draw 29.4 per cent. That narrow Wolves edge sits comfortably with the recent record, three wins in five against Birmingham's one, and the points gap, though Birmingham have home advantage and the margin is slight. The numbers and the form tell the same story: a close match with the visitors carrying a small edge.
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