Birmingham City v Cardiff City

Published on: 17 January 2020

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Birmingham City midfielder Ivan Sunjic returns from suspension for the visit of Cardiff, but captain Harlee Dean serves a one-match ban.

Marc Roberts is back in training after an ankle injury but Maikel Kieftenbeld (knee) is still out.

Cardiff could recall keeper Neil Etheridge having left him out since 1 January following speculation linking him with a move to West Ham.

Nathaniel Mendez-Laing remains sidelined with a hamstring injury.

Match facts

    Birmingham have lost their last two league games against Cardiff, conceding seven goals across those defeats. Cardiff have not won three consecutive league games against Birmingham since February 1928 (five in a row). Birmingham have not won three consecutive games in all competitions since a run of four under Garry Monk in October 2018. Cardiff won three of their first four league games under Neil Harris (D1) but have won just one of their subsequent seven games (W1 D4 L2). Since his Championship debut for the club in September 2016, Lukas Jutkiewicz has scored 39 goals for Birmingham - 25 more than any other current Blues player. In the Championship this season, Cardiff City have managed just 46 open play sequences with 10 or more passes - 13 fewer than any other team.

Source: bbc.com

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