Birmingham City have won just one of their last nine home league games against Middlesbrough (D3 L5), a 2-1 win in October 2019 under Pep Clotet.

Middlesbrough have won each of their last four league meetings with Birmingham City and could win five in a row against the Blues for the first time; since they were relegated back to the second tier ahead of 2017-18 season, Boro have won more games against Birmingham than any of the other current Championship teams (W9 D1 L3).

Birmingham have won just two of their last eight home league games (D3 L3), conceding 3+ goals in each of their three defeats in this period.

Middlesbrough have lost each of their last two away league games in midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), having lost just one of the prior 10 (W7 D2).

After scoring just once in his first 14 league games at St Andrew’s this season, Birmingham’s Koji Miyoshi has scored in each of his last two such games there – the last player for the Blues to score in three successive home league games was Lukas Jutkiewicz in August 2019 (run of five).

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