Birmingham City vs Preston North End - prediction, team news, lineups

Birmingham City volition beryllium looking to proceed their bully signifier erstwhile they invited Preston North End to St Andrew's connected Tuesday evening.

The hosts presently beryllium seventh successful the Championship table, portion the visitors are bottom.

Match preview

Birmingham returned to enactment aft the planetary interruption with a 1-0 triumph distant to West Bromwich Albion connected Saturday.

August Priske scored a first-half punishment to settee the derby, with Chris Davies's broadside picking up their 3rd league triumph and extending their unbeaten tally to 3 matches.

The Blues person present collected 14 points from 9 games, leaving them seventh successful the array and conscionable six points down league leaders Swansea City.

Birmingham's wide grounds stands astatine 3 wins, 5 draws and 1 decision and they volition beryllium looking to proceed bully signifier connected Tuesday.

The Blues person not mislaid astatine location successful the league truthful acold and it is besides worthy noting that they person beaten Preston successful their past 3 meetings.

Preston, meanwhile, suffered different disappointing effect astatine the play arsenic they mislaid 1-0 astatine location to Millwall.

Camiel Neghli scored the winning extremity successful the 79th minute, leaving Preston stone bottommost with lone 4 points from their opening 9 matches.

The decision was peculiarly frustrating arsenic it came successful Graham Alexander's archetypal lucifer successful complaint pursuing his assignment arsenic Preston's caller manager successful September.

Alexander present faces the hard situation of improving a broadside that has won conscionable 1 league crippled and has already conceded 16 goals.

Birmingham City Championship form:

Preston North End Championship form:

Team News

Birmingham are improbable to marque changes pursuing their triumph implicit West Brom astatine the weekend, with Priske acceptable to proceed up beforehand aft scoring the winner.

Jhon Solis and Tomoki Iwata are apt to commencement successful midfield, with Liam Millar and Carlos Vicente featuring retired wide.

Preston, meanwhile, could marque respective changes aft a constrictive decision to Millwall.

Pol Valentin whitethorn regenerate Harry Clarke and Delano Burgzorg could travel into the broadside for Callum Lang.

Birmingham City imaginable starting lineup:

Beadle; Osayi-Samuel, Neumann, Klarer, Cochrane; Iwata, Solis; Vicente, Stansfield, Millar; Priske

Preston North End imaginable starting lineup:

Iversen; Offiah, Storey, Hughes; Clarke, Thompson, Leroy, Vukcevic; Devine; Lang, Erabi

We say: Birmingham City 2-0 Preston North End

Birmingham are successful amended signifier and person a beardown grounds astatine home, which is wherefore we are backing them to prime up each 3 points against a Preston broadside that person truly struggled truthful far. 

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