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Birmingham City’s Tomoki Iwata<\/p>\nBirmingham City head for the capital on Tuesday to take on Queens Park Rangers in their latest Championship fixtureBirmingham City’s Tomoki Iwata<\/p>\n
Birmingham City will look to exorcise their away day demons against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Blues<\/a> have lost six of their 10 away matches in the Championship and slipped up 3-1 at Southampton at the weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n A miserable record on the road is currently undermining Blues\u2019 sterling home form and manager Chris Davies<\/a> knows that an improvement is needed.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom our point of view, we\u2019re trying to approach the game in the right way. You can see that overall we haven\u2019t had an away performance that has been abject,\u201d Davies said. \u201cWe\u2019ve just had slow starts and it\u2019s cost us.\u201d<\/p>\n Blues have conceded the first goal in nine of their 10 away games \u2013 and eight of those strikes have come in the first half.<\/p>\n They can\u2019t give a QPR side who have won their last two at home, scoring six goals in the process, an early leg up.<\/p>\n This feels like a game where Davies can justify making changes to his side.<\/p>\n There were signs at Southampton that Tomoki Iwata<\/a> might be needed back in midfield, which would mean Bright Osayi-Samuel<\/a> returning at right-back.<\/p>\n Osayi-Samuel could play the position in a slightly more orthodox manner to help shore up Blues\u2019 leaky defence on the road.<\/p>\n Jack Robinson is the obvious choice to replace Alex Cochrane at left-back if he can\u2019t shake off his injury.<\/a><\/p>\n Restoring Iwata to midfield doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that one of Tommy Doyle or Paik Seung-ho has to be benched.<\/p>\n Davies played all three from the start in Blues\u2019 last away day success at Preston with Paik slightly advanced. Why not try something that has worked before?<\/p>\n Jay Stansfield<\/a> could move up front to provide Blues with the pressing power that Marvin Ducksch can\u2019t.<\/p>\n Demarai Gray is a must on the left but you couldn\u2019t blame Davies for giving Patrick Roberts a breather before the festive fixture list goes into overdrive.<\/p>\n Keshi Anderson and Lewis Koumas are Davies\u2019 reserves out wide, with the former most likely based on the order they are usually introduced as substitutes.<\/p>\n Our suggested Blues XI for QPR…<\/strong><\/p>\n (4-2-3-1): Beadle; Osayi-Samuel, Neumann, Klarer, Robinson; Iwata, Doyle; Anderson, Paik, Gray; Stansfield<\/p>\n What should Davies do? Have your say in the comments HERE<\/a>Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City head for the capital on Tuesday to take on Queens Park Rangers in their latest Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,8372,393,4884,118990,14864,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-620447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chris-davies-football-coach","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-marvin-ducksch","15":"tag-tomoki-iwata","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115685021291767889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620447","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=620447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}