Week 2 brings us a match on Aug 5th, where Birmingham City hosts Huddersfield Town at St. Andrew’s Stadium in a Championship match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 19 degrees, a perfect day for football. Birmingham City sits at 14th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Luton Town. Neither Luton Town nor Birmingham City could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 15 and 12 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Birmingham City looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 0 of their last 10, while huddersfield Town is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Burnley. Ian Maatsen struck first for Burnley in the 18th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Huddersfield Town was frustrated by Burnley’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Burnley ended the match with the shutout victory. Huddersfield Town looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 9 points in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Huddersfield Town won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Huddersfield Town hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Daniel Grant and Jordan Rhodes, and they each have 1 goal. Scott Hogan and Sam Cosgrove are the top scorers for Birmingham City in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.