Birmingham vs Sunderland
Sunderland was in a downturn and was unable to get out of it. Birmingham defended his home court with a little advantage and won the black cat and promoted the ranking
0 Beijing time at 4:00 am on November 12, English Championship round 21st game started, and Birmingham faced Sunderland at home. As an inconspicuous club in English football, Birmingham has played a role in a weak team in recent years, and has the best ranking as 17th in the past five seasons, with limited competitiveness. Sunderland was down after being relegated from Premier League in the 2016-17 season. He played football in English League to break the club's lower limit for nearly 20 years until he finished fifth in the English Championship last season and broke through the siege in the upgrade play-offs. This season, he was acceptable as a newly promoted team.
Birmingham has a remarkable performance and has a chance to become a dark horse character. Currently, they have 7 wins, 7 draws, 6 losses, and 28 points, ranking 10th, and are in the middle of the game, 3 points behind 6th place, fierce competition, so although the team has not been pulled too much by the previous face, if they lose points in this game, they will basically decline in ranking. After all, they only lead 13th place Reading by 2 points. On both ends of offense and defense, the team scored 22 goals and conceded 18 goals, which is the biggest reliance on the league, and the forward line did not drag too much back.
Sunderland chose to change coach this summer when he was successfully promoted to the Championship. He invited Mobray to coach. This English coach has rich experience in the Championship, which is one of the reasons why the club's senior management chose him. Under his leadership, Sunderland ranked 17th with 6 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses, with 24 points, and 4 points ahead of the relegation zone. Scoring 24 goals and conceding 22 goals, the overall offense and defense are not much different from Birmingham, but the team's stability is slightly insufficient. It is necessary to improve when going to the away game, otherwise it will not be easy to penetrate the opponent's stable defense line.
Birmingham suffered a downturn at the beginning of the season, and won 1 win in the seven league rounds and fell into the relegation zone for a while. Later, the players improved as they entered the game. In the home game, facing Swansea , the strong team met and started a goal battle. Birmingham shot 12 and 2 shots in the game. The conversion rate was insufficient, but his ability to handle the goal was online. In the end, Hogan's goal and Deanie's 2-2 handshake, Yanhe was unbeaten in the last 4 games. In terms of players, forward Hogan became a thigh, scored 9 goals and 1 assist in 20 appearances in the league, and his performance determines the quality of the offensive end.
Sunderland has been in a normal state recently. He faced Cardiff City at home in the game, and his ball possession rate reached 60%. He did not have much threat in sports warfare. He only 11 shots were shot 1-1 and lost to his opponent 0-1. Sunderland has won 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses in the last 5 games, and has scored 4 goals and conceded 8 goals during the period, which has different degrees of disadvantages in offense and defense. In addition, Sunderland is prone to relax after taking the lead and lead to a defensive end being penetrated by the opponent. As for technical and tactical characteristics, he is good at attacking on the wing through his personal ability, and can go to the away game to face Birmingham, which is mainly defense, to encounter difficulties.
The last time the two sides met was in 2018. It took too long to have much meaning to record, but in the past 5 times, Birmingham won 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss against Sunderland at home. In addition, although Sunderland's away win rate is 40% in the middle of the league, and has been unbeaten in 6 games in 10 games, he has not had enough combat effectiveness in winning one away game in the last 5 games. In contrast, Birmingham has been good at playing at home recently and has lost 3 goals in the last 5 games. According to this trend, the opponent can be restricted. In addition, Sunderland's sluggishness does not think there is too much resistance. In this game, Birmingham won the ball with all three points.
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