Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the League One match on August 31st, 2024

Birmingham City will be playing against Wigan Athletic in a League One football match scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 31st, 2024, at 14:00h (UTC), in England, check the Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic will occur

The game will be played in the St. Andrew's Stadium stadium, in the city of Birmingham, with a capacity for 32609 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

You can follow the match live with access to all the information to help with your sports betting at Betarena, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Birmingham City vs Wigan Athletic betting tip 2024/2025

Birmingham City comes from a loss in the last match played. On that occasion the opponent was Fulham, in a match valid for Carabao Cup, and the match ended 0-2. Coach C. Davies' team lined up with this formation: 4-2-3-1.

The odds for them to win, of 4.33 left no room for doubt. The defeat was clear before the match started.

The defense certainly did not have an easy time in this match. The worst in the department is perhaps Ethan Laird, who was missing in the most important moments of the match. One of the worst on the field.

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a victory in the last round. In a dispute valid for League One, Wigan Athletic, who used a 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the Crawley Town team with a final score of 1-0.

A very even game was expected, with odds for the home win at 1.95.

Wigan Athletic was in 24th place when they last went head-to-head in Championship against Birmingham City, who was in 19th place. Wigan Athletic formed a 3-4-3 arrangement while Birmingham City took to the pitch with a 3-4-1-2 formation.

Last time a draw between these teams, what to expect now?

During the football season of 2022/2023, these Championship teams played against each other on 04-03-2023 in a duly contested game that ended in a 1-1 draw.

In charge of this football game will be S. Gill, while M. Webb and A. Nelson will assist him.

Birmingham City

Current leaderboard

Up to 4th round and with 7 points achieved, Birmingham City is currently ranked 5th place in the table.

Birmingham City analysis

After 3 rounds, Birmingham City has a positive ratio of goals scored and goals against. The team sums 6 goals for and 4 conceded.

With an average of 5 shots on goal per match, Birmingham City is a very offensive team, which increases its chances of winning this competition.

The Birmingham City team typically attempts to achieve an average ball possession of 69.67% to control the game. The reason for this is that teams with ball possession above 50% usually have some control over their opponents.

Wigan Athletic

Current leaderboard

Wigan Athletic is actually in 18th place in the league after the 4th round, having won 3 points from games so far this season.

Wigan Athletic analysis

After round 3 of League One we count 1 goals scored by Wigan Athletic and 3 conceded.

Bet suggestions for this game:

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 5.5 per game.

Goals Top Betting Tips

The number of goals that both teams scored and conceded at the start of the championship round can be a successful betting parameter. Birmingham City didn't score any goal in the last round games and conceded in 4 opportunities, while Wigan Athletic scored 1 time and conceded 3 goals.

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