Birmingham vs Brighton Predictions, Betting Tips and Preview

Birmingham vs Brighton predictions and football tips for this weekend’s Championship game on Saturday evening with team news, head to head stats and the latest betting odds.

 

The penultimate game in Sky Sports’ EFL 10 in 10 is on Saturday when Birmingham host Brighton at St Andrews Stadium. Here are some tips and predictions for the game live on Sky Sports on Saturday evening.

 

Birmingham City are sitting just outside the play-offs at the moment but the shock sacking of Gary Rowett and appointment of Zola has taken everybody by surprise. After finishing 10th last season in the Championship the aim was to push on and be in the hunt for promotion come April and they look on course to do that at the moment. They defeated Ipswich 2-1 on Tuesday night thanks to goals from Clayton Donaldson and Michael Morrison and this has left them outside the play-offs only on goal difference. In the starting line-up on Tuesday night. The side had five players with Premier League experience and this could be crucial when it comes to March and April when the pressure is enormous and they will need experienced heads like Tomasz Kuszack and Jonathon Spector who are both formerly of Manchester United.

 

Brighton are on a 15-game unbeaten run and that has seen them climb into the automatic promotion places with title favourites Newcastle United. I would be very surprised if these two sides don’t finish in the top two this season and they both seem to have too much quality for the Championship. It could have been easy for Chris Hughton and his men to crumble after last season’s play-off semi-final defeat to Sheffield Wednesday but they have done the total opposite and become stronger from that. Glen Murray scored the crucial goal on Tuesday night when Brighton defeated Blackburn 3-2 away from home and he has been fantastic so far this season with thirteen goals to his name already and it wouldn’t surprise me if he added to that tally on Saturday.

 

Birmingham City v Brighton & Hove Albion Predictions

My first Birmingham vs Brighton betting tip for this game is going to be for Brighton to score 2+ goals. As mentioned earlier in my preview, I think they are too strong for this division and I expect them to be playing Premier League football next season. Birmingham have recently shipped four away to Newcastle and three at home to Barnsley and with Brighton score 2+ goals in over half of their last ten games I think this is a great bet and this is 29/20 at Coral.

 

My second Birmingham vs Brighton prediction is for there to be a goal in each half. Brighton have so much firepower up front and it would not surprise me if they scored in both halves but to be on the safe side this bet means either team can score as long as there is a goal in each half. This happened in the last three games that they have played against each other and happened when they both played in midweek and odds of this are EVENS at Sky Bet.

 

Birmingham City vs Brighton & Hove Albion Team News

Clayton Donaldson may be missing for Birmingham after going off early in the second half against Ipswich in midweek. On loan defender Rhoys Wiggings is out for the season with a knee injury and has returned back to his parent club Bournemouth. Brighton have no fresh injury concerns and will likely go with the side that beat Blackburn in midweek however Glen Murray will be hoping he returns to the starting eleven after starting on the bench in that game.

 

Birmingham City vs Brighton & Hove Albion Head to Head

Brighton have a fantastic record against their opponents on Saturday after winning four out of their last five meeting. Last season the Seagulls won both matches by the same score line of 2-1 and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was the same score line this time around.

 

Birmingham City vs Brighton & Hove Albion Betting Odds

Brighton are favourites for this game and are best priced 6/5 to win at William Hill. The draw is quite fancied are 12/5 with Sporting Bet and a Birmingham win is 13/5 at Bet365. Glen Murray is favourite to open the scoring at 4/1 with most bookies but as he didn’t play in midweek I recommend checking the team news if you are to do a goal scorer bet and Tomer Hemed or Sam Baldock could be worth a shout at 13/2 and 6/1 respectively with Paddy Power.

 

Birmingham City v Brighton & Hove Albion Betting Tips

Brighton to score 2+ goals – 29/20 at Coral: BET.

A goal in both halves – Evens at Sky Bet: BET.

 

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