Blackburn vs Birmingham

Blackburn Rovers have lost just two of their last 38 home league games against Birmingham City (W25 D11), winning each of their last four in succession during which they’ve scored 15 goals in total.

Birmingham City have won two of their last three league games against Blackburn Rovers (L1), as many victories as across their prior 16 matches against Rovers combined (D6 L8).

Blackburn have won their opening home game in each of the last five league seasons. However, following their 1-0 loss at West Brom on MD1, they’ll be hoping to avoid beginning a league campaign with back-to-back defeats, which last happened in 2019-20.

Birmingham haven’t lost their opening away game in any of the last six seasons (W3 D3) since losing 1-0 at Middlesbrough in the Championship in 2018-19.

On MD1 of the 2025-26 Championship season, Birmingham’s Keshi Anderson won more duels than any other player (14), with the last player to have more in the Championship for them being Ethan Larid v Swansea in August 2023 (21).