Birmingham draw with Wolves to stay unbeaten in the Championship
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Lopez poked Wolves ahead after three minutes
Stansfield fired in first equaliser for Birmingham
Krejci's powerful header put Wolves 2-1 up
Tchatchoua looped pass over own keeper to bring Blues level
All four goals scored in the first half
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Birmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
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Birmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
Image source, ShutterstockBirmingham City fans, can you make a challenge for the play-offs this season - or better - and potentially target a return to the Premier League for the first time since 2010-11?
And Wolves supporters, will you bounce straight back up to the top flight?
Let us know all your thoughts on the above, today's game and any West Midlands derby musings you may have!
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Birmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
Image source, ShutterstockWolves were enjoying a relatively strong return to the Championship for the first time in eight years until their unbeaten start to the season was ended by the 4-2 defeat at West Ham on Tuesday night.
If Cesar Peixoto's side can pick up three points today though, they will likely be satisfied with where they are after five matches, with away games at a tough local rival and a potential promotion challenger already out the way.
But winning at St Andrew's has not been easy for visiting sides in recent times, with Birmingham City losing just on just three occasions in their past 48 league games on home soil (W33 D12).
Wolves have won as many games in their past three matches as they did in their final 18 in the Premier League last season, and they will want to keep that winning feeling a familiar one as they target an immediate return to the top flight.
Birmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
Birmingham City
Image source, ShutterstockIt has been a solid start to the season for Birmingham City, if not spectacular. A win today in the West Midlands derby might just crank the rating up a notch or two though.
Blues are one of just two teams still unbeaten in the Championship, along with Swansea City, though three of their four games so far have finished all square, including on Tuesday night when they came from behind to draw 1-1 with Southampton at St Andrew's.
Chris Davies' side are in fact on a run of nine league games without suffering a loss (W4 D5), spanning across the end of last season and the beginning of the new campaign.
They could match their longest unbeaten streak in the second tier since February 2020 if they avoid defeat today.
Birmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
Image source, OptaBirmingham City boss Chris Davies has made two changes from the 1-1 home draw with Southampton on Tuesday night.
Liam Millar makes his debut after arriving on loan from Hull City on deadline day, while Paik Seung-ho also comes into the side.
Carlos Vicente drops to the bench but Jhon Solis is not in the squad.
Image source, OptaCesar Peixoto also makes two alterations for Wolves from their 4-2 defeat at West Ham in midweek.
Ladislav Krejci makes his first start of the season, replacing Toti Gomes who is among the subs, and Adam Armstrong comes in for Mateus Mane.
Raul Jimenez will wear the captain's armband.
Birmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
Image source, Getty ImagesBirmingham City fans will not need reminding what happened the last time they met with Wolves in the 2017-18 campaign.
Wolves did the double over their West Midlands rivals, winning the away fixture 1-0 and securing a 2-0 victory at Molineux in April 2018 on the way to promotion, which they celebrated on the pitch after that game.
Another victory today for Wolves would make it three straight wins against Blues for the first time since December 1999.
Wolves have also won on their past three visits to St Andrew's, while Birmingham have come out on top just once in the past six meetings between the two (D1 L4).
Blues will believe it's time to land a blow on their old foe.
Birmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
Image source, Getty ImagesIt's very early days in the Championship season but Swansea City are setting the pace at this stage with 11 points from their opening five games.
Victory for Wolves this afternoon would take them level with a cluster of five teams tied on 10 points, though Cesar Peixoto's side would go second on goal difference.
Birmingham will hope to keep in touch with the early frontrunners and would move into the play-off spots with a win.
Championship
Here's a quick recap of what happened in the Championship yesterday.
You can read the match reports from any of Saturday's games here.
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Image source, OptaBirmingham v Wolves (12:00 BST)
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Image source, ShutterstockGood morning, everybody.
Just the one game in the Championship today but it's a biggie.
It is a first local derby of the season for Birmingham City and Wolves but they've each had to wait eight years to face one another.
Wolves have spent that time in the Premier League while Blues have been mostly in the second tier, barring one season in League One in 2024-25.
They finally meet again and you can expect quite the atmosphere at St Andrew's to mark the occasion.
Kick-off is 20 minutes away. Let's get to it.
Wolves' third-minute goal set the tone for a St Andrew's Sunday lunchtime thriller
Birmingham City twice came from behind to earn a West Midlands derby draw with Wolves at St Andrew's - thanks to a comical Jackson Tchatchoua own goal.
All four goals came before the break as Fer Lopez poked Wolves ahead from close range before Jay Stansfield hammered a controversial first Blues equaliser, Ladislav Krejci's header restored Wolves' lead and then came the game's main talking point.
Tchatchoua miscommunicated with Jose Sa and his backpass floated past his own keeper into the net. And, despite an awful lot more second-half drama, there were astonishingly no further goals.
It was the third successive Championship home draw for unbeaten Blues, who still sit just a point behind Wolves in the fledgling table.
But, once the tension had eased, it was enough to put a smile back on the face of Blues' American chairman Tom Wagner, who got a wonderful reception back at St Andrew's for the first time in seven months following the stroke he suffered in February.
Birmingham City fans were delighted to see USA-based chairman Tom Wagner back at a game for the first time since his stroke in February
Some local derby games can fail to live up to the pre-match hype and turn out to be a bit of a non-event – but not this one.
Wolves made a dramatic start in only the third minute when Lopez got on the end of a hard, low Rodrigo Gomes cross from the right to touch home from close range – his third goal of the season.
But Blues were level on 22 minutes when Patrick Roberts released Stansfield with a lofted pass over the top from the right and the £15m man went on to blast a superbly struck right-foot shot into the roof of the net.
It did look suspiciously like he might have first brought the ball down with his outstretched left arm. Either way, it was his first goal of the season, long overdue and euphorically received by the raucous home fans.
Nine minutes later, Wolves were back in front when Andre flicked on Hugo Bueno's left-wing corner and Ladislav Krejci timed his run to bullet home a header.
But the visitors were back in front for only five minutes before calamity intervened.
Wolves defender Jackson Tchatchoua put through his own net
There looked to be absolutely no danger in a hopeful long punt forward as Tchatchoua attempted to knock the ball on the volley to his own goalkeeper Sa from just outside the box.
But he got too good a touch, it was slightly off target, the keeper barely moved and the ball tantalisingly dropped the wrong side of Sa and into his net.
Both sides had chances to win it in a breathless second half, which Blues dominated.
Chiefly Wolves striker Adam Armstrong, who has a great scoring record against Blues down the years but fluffed his lines in the 87th minute after being set up by Lopez.
But it was Blues who had the last chance of all, only for Sa to go full length to keep out sub Marvin Ducksch's injury-time free-kick.
Jay Stansfield's controversial first goal of the season was his first since 22 April
Jay Stansfield has had a pretty depressing few weeks when it comes to the business of what he was bought for in Birmingham City's League One days back in August 2024 - finding the back of the net.
He might not even have scored the most memorable goal of this Midlands derby thriller, but it could turn out to be the most crucial if it gets him back on a good scoring run.
This was Stansfield's first goal of the season to end a barren run going back to last term.
Having failed to score in last season's final two games, this was his first for Blues in nine games - and helped erase the immediate memory of some of the much easier chances he has failed to put away this season.
Admittedly, with a big target man alongside him now in August Priske, Stansfield's role has changed and he spends more time out in wider areas, helping to explain why he has not scored away from home in over a year.
He was also lucky that Blues are not in the Premier League yet. This one would have been chalked off by VAR for use of his upper left arm just before he struck his shot.
But he was due a break. And it atoned for Blues not having had much luck in front of goal in recent weeks.
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
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| 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
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| 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
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| 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 10 |
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| 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
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| 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 10 |
| |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 9 |
| |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 |
| |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 8 |
| |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| |
| 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6 |
| |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 6 |
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| 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 6 |
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| 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 6 |
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| 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 5 |
| |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 5 |
| |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 5 |
| |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 4 |
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| 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 4 |
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| 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -3 | 3 |
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| 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 3 |
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| 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 2 |
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Manager: Chris Davies
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: César Peixoto
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Chris Davies
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: César Peixoto
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Championship
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All competitions
This will be the first season in which Birmingham City and Wolverhampton Wanderers will face in the league since 2017-18, when Wolves completed a Championship double over their rivals.
Wolves are looking to win three successive league games against Birmingham City for the first time since December 1999. They have also won their last three league visits to St. Andrew’s.
Birmingham are unbeaten in nine league games (W4 D5), their longest run in the Championship since February 2020 (10).
Wolves have won just one of their last 23 away league outings (D6 L16), losing 4-2 at West Ham last time out.
Wolves’ José Sá is without a clean sheet in any of his last nine league starts – he is one of two goalkeepers to concede over two goals more than expected according to Opta’s expected goals on target model (2.1) in the Championship this season alongside Burnley’s Max Weiß (3.4).
