📊 Form Guide

Derby County

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Derby County are hoping to win again following a 0-1 Championship victory against Portsmouth.

In that game, Derby County managed 32% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Derby County was Sammie Szmodics (8'). For their opponents, Portsmouth had 26 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target.

It has been seldom in recent games where Derby County have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Derby County have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 9 goals during that time.

Their previous form shows that Derby County:

• are unbeaten in the league by Birmingham City in their last 2 games.
• have not registered a win against Birmingham City in their previous 4 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Birmingham City

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In their last fixture, Birmingham City drew 1-1 in the Championship tie with Sheffield United.

In that game, Birmingham City managed 63% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Birmingham City was Marvin Ducksch (25'). On the other side, Sheffield United got 5 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Patrick Bamford (45') scored for Sheffield United.

The stats tell the story, and Birmingham City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 9 goals in total. Defensively, Birmingham City have clearly had some problems. That kind of pattern might not be continued into this match, however.

Looking at their past form shows that Birmingham City:

• have not been beaten by Derby County in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings going back to 22/07/2020, there has been little to separate the clubs with Derby County winning 2 of those games, Birmingham City 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

19 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 11 for The Rams and 8 netted by The Blues. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The previous league contest between the two was Championship match day 23 on 26/12/2025 when it finished Birmingham City 1-1 Derby County.

In that match, Birmingham City managed 73% possession and 25 shots on goal with 9 on target. The scorer was Jack Robinson (64').

Derby County had 5 shots on goal with 1 on target. Patrick Agyemang (27') scored.

The match was refereed by Ben Toner.

📋 Team News: Derby County

It looks as if The Rams look set to employ a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, handing starts to Richard O´Donnell, Joe Ward, Dion Sanderson, Matt Clarke, Derry Murkin, Bobby Clark, Lewis Travis, Ben Brereton Díaz, Samuel Szmodics, Rhian Brewster and Patrick Agyemang.

📋 Team News: Birmingham City

From our viewpoint, The Blues appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for James Beadle, Tomoki Iwata, Christoph Klarer, Jack Robinson, Ethan Laird, Seung-ho Paik, Jhon Solís, Carlos Vicente, Marvin Ducksch, Demarai Gray and Jay Stansfield.

🧠 Prediction

Birmingham City and Derby County should both be able to score here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. Therefore, we predict a hard-fought 1-1 score when the full-time whistle blows.

Victor Martins, 12:03 21/03/2026