Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic Predictions

Birmingham City and Wigan Athletic continue their league one campaigns this weekend against each other in what is sure to be an interesting game.

Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic Key Stats

• Birmingham have lost just 1 of their last 6 games - this lost to Premier League opposition Fulham in the EFL Cup
• Wigan have won just 1 of their last 7 games
• Birmingham have conceded just 4 goals in their last 5 games
• Wigan have failed to score in 3 of their last 5 fixtures

Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic Previous Meetings

Believe it or not these two teams have faced each other just 27 times competitively in their histories. This game will be the 28th meeting.

Wigan have the advantage having won 10 of those fixtures to Birmingham’s 7 wins. However there have been just as many draws as there have been Wigan wins (10).

The last time these two sides met was in March 2023 with the game ending in a 1-1 draw. Will we see a similar thing this weekend?

Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic Team News & Predicted Lineups

There is only one injury between the two sides in this game with both teams expected to start as strong a lineup as possible.

That 1 injury is for Birmingham City who will be without Dion Sanderson who remains out with injury.

Birmingham City - Bailey Peacock-Farrell, Alex Cochrane, Krystian Bielik, Christoph Klarer, Ethan Laird, Marc Leonard, Paik Seung-ho, Emil Hansson, Luke Harris, Keshi Anderson, Alfie May

Wigan Athletic - Samuel Lloyd Tickle, James Carragher, Jason Kerr, Will Aimson, Luke Chambers, Baba Adeeko, Matt Smith, Dion Rankine, Thelo Aasgaard, Silko Thomas, Joe Hugill

Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic Player To Watch - Alfie May

With Birmingham expected to dominate this game, one man to watch out for has to be Alfie May.

May has already scored 3 goals in the opening 3 games of the season and picked up an assist for himself along the way as well.

If anyone is going to impact this game for the hosts it will be him.

Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic Prediction

Coming into this game Birmingham are certainly the favourites with Wigan struggling at the start of this league campaign. And we would expect that to continue.

This along with the fact that Wigan in recent weeks have struggled to find the back of the net (their only goal of the season coming from an own goal) we expect them to struggle again. Especially with Birmingham’s high level defence.

That is why we are backing Birmingham To Win To Nil in this game. And with odds of 6/4, £10 has the potential to return up to £25 making it our best value tip for this fixture.

Where To Watch Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic

This game is set to get underway on Saturday 31st August 2024 at 15:00 pm. That being said, due to the 3pm blackout in the UK this game is not going to be televised.