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Alex McLeish's Birmingham City face a tough test in Sunday's only game against big summer spenders Manchester City at St. Andrew's.
The struggling Midlanders picked up an excellent 2-1 home win last weekend against former manager Steve Bruce's Sunderland that stopped a three match losing run in the league.
Liam Ridgewell and James McFadden cut the Black Cats down to size as they recorded their third win of the campaign to edge them away from the drop zone. They currently sit in 15th position.
City on the other hand loiter in the upper echelons of the Premier League table and although they sit sixth, they have a game in hand over Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, the two teams directly above them.
Birmingham City's main struggle this season has been hitting the back of the net. Only eight goals have been plundered in their ten games and this will be an issue McLeish will want to address.
Mark Hughes has an embarrassment of riches to choose from although Brazilian sharp-shooter Robinho (ankle), Nedum Onuoha (thigh) and Benjani Mwaruwari (thigh) struggling to be fit in time for the clash.
McLeish has several injury concerns ahead of the clash.
Damien Johnson, Gregory Vignal and Marcus Bent (all hamstring), Martin Taylor (ankle), Giovanny Espinoza (foot), Keith Fahey (ankle) and David Murphy (knee) are all hampered and may not be available for the Blues.
With Emmanuel Adebayor, Roque Santa Cruz, Carlos Tevez, Stephen Ireland, Gareth Barry and Joleon Lescott to name a few, the visitors should have enough in their ranks to overpower the recently promoted outfit.
They last met in the league during the 2007-08 season with Birmingham claiming a 3-1 success.
Former loan star Mauro Zarate fired the hosts into a two goal lead before a Elano penalty halved the deficit.
Both the teams played well but failed to put the match to an absolute decision.
The results for
Birmingham City Vs Manchester City are
0-0
Alex McLeish's Birmingham City face a tough test in Sunday's only game against big summer spenders Manchester City at St. Andrew's.
The struggling Midlanders picked up an excellent 2-1 home win last weekend against former manager Steve Bruce's Sunderland that stopped a three match losing run in the league.
Liam Ridgewell and James McFadden cut the Black Cats down to size as they recorded their third win of the campaign to edge them away from the drop zone. They currently sit in 15th position.
City on the other hand loiter in the upper echelons of the Premier League table and although they sit sixth, they have a game in hand over Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, the two teams directly above them.
Birmingham City's main struggle this season has been hitting the back of the net. Only eight goals have been plundered in their ten games and this will be an issue McLeish will want to address.
Mark Hughes has an embarrassment of riches to choose from although Brazilian sharp-shooter Robinho (ankle), Nedum Onuoha (thigh) and Benjani Mwaruwari (thigh) struggling to be fit in time for the clash.
McLeish has several injury concerns ahead of the clash.
Damien Johnson, Gregory Vignal and Marcus Bent (all hamstring), Martin Taylor (ankle), Giovanny Espinoza (foot), Keith Fahey (ankle) and David Murphy (knee) are all hampered and may not be available for the Blues.
With Emmanuel Adebayor, Roque Santa Cruz, Carlos Tevez, Stephen Ireland, Gareth Barry and Joleon Lescott to name a few, the visitors should have enough in their ranks to overpower the recently promoted outfit.
They last met in the league during the 2007-08 season with Birmingham claiming a 3-1 success.
Former loan star Mauro Zarate fired the hosts into a two goal lead before a Elano penalty halved the deficit.
Both the teams played well but failed to put the match to an absolute decision.
The results for
Birmingham City Vs Manchester City are
0-0
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