{"id":591545,"date":"2025-11-24T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:35:16","slug":"albion-vs-birmingham-city-match-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591545\/","title":{"rendered":"Albion vs Birmingham City | Match Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The opposition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham City have made a solid start to life back in the Sky Bet Championship having eased to the Sky Bet League One title last term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve collected 24 points from their first 16 games (W7, D3, L6) and are one of several teams jostling for space inside the top six of the division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris Davies&#8217; men will have their sights set on securing a spot in the play-offs come the start of May, and the ownership group invested heavily in the playing squad in the summer to give the 40-year-old the best possible chance of achieving that.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s visitors have been in fine form in front of goal lately, scoring four for the third time in their last four fixtures on Saturday, defeating struggling Norwich City 4-1 at St. Andrew&#8217;s @ Knighthead Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like many teams in the second tier, they&#8217;ve had inconsistent results on their travels. Blues have played eight away league games so far in 2025\/26 and have won two (Blackburn &amp; Preston North End), drawn one (Wrexham) and lost five (Leicester City, Stoke City, Coventry City, Bristol City and Middlesbrough).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davies, a former coach at Reading, Celtic, Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur, was handed the job in June 2024 &#8211; his first senior managerial position. His Blues record is incredibly strong, winning 52 of the 78 games he&#8217;s managed in all competitions (D13 &amp; L13).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opposition Birmingham City have made a solid start to life back in the Sky Bet Championship having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-591545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115606829508954080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}