Birmingham City vs Wolverhampton Wanderers - prediction, team news, lineups

After an eight-year interruption from hostilities, Birmingham City and Wolverhampton Wanderers volition renew their rivalry successful hunt of Championship points astatine St Andrew's @ Knighthead Park connected Sunday afternoon.

Blues picked up a respectable constituent against promotion-chasing Southampton earlier successful the week, whilst the Old Gold experienced their archetypal large disappointment of 2026-27, losing connected the roadworthy to West Ham United.

Match preview

Following a sobering 6-1 EFL Cup decision to Premier League Brentford connected August 25, Birmingham City - and much specifically caput manager Chris Davies - needed a response, and it is harmless to accidental that has been provided.

Over the past week, Blues person collected 4 points from Championship clashes with Wrexham (2-1) and Southampton (1-1), meaning that Sunday's hosts person commenced the second-tier run with a four-game unbeaten streak (W1 D3).

Extending the signifier backmost into the erstwhile season, Birmingham are 9 games without decision successful the league and were past handed a second-tier nonaccomplishment by Ipswich Town astatine Portman Road connected April 6.

Waiting until the archetypal time of September to nett his maiden league extremity of the term, August Priske guided location an fantabulous Patrick Roberts transverse against Southampton, with the erstwhile Celtic antheral producing a man-of-the-match show earlier successful the week.

A wide subordinate with a seperate acceptable of skills, Liam Millar arrived from Hull City connected transportation deadline to supply enactment and contention astatine near wing, however, Birmingham missed connected retired the seizure of a caller attacking midfielder to the annoyance of Bluenoses.

There are nary specified issues successful Wolves' advanced-midfield role, wherever Fer Lopez has netted doubly and provided 2 assists crossed his opening 4 matches, showcasing the excess successful endowment the Old Gold person compared to the bulk of their Championship foes.

Cesar Peixoto volition beryllium the main characters during the ample stock of their second-tier matches this term, but that was not the lawsuit connected Tuesday night, erstwhile the Black Country broadside suffered a 4-2 decision astatine West Ham, halting a five-game unbeaten tally (W4 D1) astatine the opening of 2026-27.

Nevertheless, Wolves stay successful a respectable presumption successful the Championship standings up of this weekend's abbreviated travel to the Second City, with the visitors sitting successful 4th spot with 7 points from 4 matches.

Whilst antiaircraft lapses person provided origin for sizeable interest truthful acold - the Old Gold are yet to support a cleanable expanse successful the league - Peixoto's men person been capable to compensate astatine the different extremity of the pitch, scoring a division-high 11 goals.

Wolves' astir caller lucifer astatine St Andrew's was a 1-0 triumph successful December 2017 and they person been victorious successful each of their past 3 games astatine Birmingham, who past won this matchup astatine Molineux successful February 2017.

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Team News

After a promising commencement connected a antiaircraft enactment to the Championship season, Birmingham are improbable to messiness with a backmost 4 of Bright Osayi-Samuel, Christoph Klarer, Phil Neumann and Alex Cochrane.

Jhon Solis and Tomoki Iwata volition supply the extortion successful midfield, allowing 2nd striker Jay Stansfield to enactment people antheral Priske.

Blues person important selections to marque connected the wings, wherever Millar and Carlos Vicente are pushing Demarai Gray and Roberts for starts.

Appearing successful a Championship squad for the archetypal clip this play astatine West Ham, Wolves defender Ladislav Krejci did not determination earlier the deadline and could beryllium reintegrated backmost into the team.

There are a fig of Old Gold players who could diagnostic against their erstwhile nine this weekend, including box-crashing midfielder Jordan James, who joined Birmingham's academy astatine the property of eight.

Whilst Wolves enactment connected a escaped cause woody for ex-Aston Villa winger Bertrand Traore, Mateus Mane and Rodrigo Gomes stay arsenic the wide first-choice options connected the flanks for the visitors.

Birmingham City imaginable starting lineup:

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

Wolverhampton Wanderers imaginable starting lineup:

Sa; Tchatchoua, Djiga, T Gomes, H Bueno; Andre, Munetsi, R Gomes, Lopez, Mane; Jimenez

We say: Birmingham City 2-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Although they are not the fiercest of rivals, Birmingham and Wolves are apt to play retired a heated matter connected Sunday arsenic they reunite for the archetypal clip since 2018.

It could beryllium a lawsuit of 2 top-end Championship teams trading blows astatine St Andrew's, with the points yet being shared.

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