Sheffield Wednesday vs Birmingham Prediction 10 February 2017
On February 10 2017 at 19:45 in the opening game of the 31st matchday of the English Football League Championship at the Hillsborough Stadium the local Sheffield Wednesday play against Birmingham.
Sheffield Wednesday are still in the race for the places in the promotion zone. They gained points in all of their latest five home games in a row. In those matches Sheffield outplayed Huddersfield 2:0, Rotherham 1:0, Barnsley 2:0 and Preston 2:1 and drew Wolverhampton 0:0 at the very beginning of the year 2017.
Birmingham started the current season really well. Yet, they got into some kind of a recession and it didn’t let them take a place among the leaders of the Championship and compete for the places in the promotion zone. The victory against Fulham on the previous weekend broke their eight game long winless series. Birmingham only gained 6 points in their 10 away games played since the middle of October. In the latest five away matches they lost to Norwich 2:0, Derby County 1:0 and Newcastle United 4:0, drew Blackburn 1:1 and Barnsley 2:2.
Sheffield Wednesday won most of the games played between the teams. Yet, in the first round of the current 2016/2017 season Birmingham won at home 2:1. Anyway, last time Sheffield Wednesday lost to Birmingham at home was in 2006. Considering the conditions of Sheffield, we think that they are the obvious favorites of the upcoming game.