Stockport County vs Birmingham City betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the League One match on January 01th, 2025

Stockport County and Birmingham City are scheduled to play against each other on January 01th, 2025, Wednesday at 15:00h (UTC), in a League One match to be held in England, check the Stockport County vs Birmingham City betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Stockport County vs Birmingham City will occur

The game takes place in the small Edgeley Park stadium, in the city of Stockport, with a capacity for 10841 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

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

Introduction to the Stockport County vs Birmingham City betting tip 2024/2025

Despite the season change, the League One has not changed much regarding goals. Today's average goals in the competition are still similar to what was seen in the tournament's last edition. The current mark is 2.58 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.59 goals per game of the last championship.

Stockport County last match

In the last match they played, Stockport County collected a defeat. The opposing team was Huddersfield Town, and the match - which ended with the result of 1-0 - was valid for League One. Coach D. Challinor's disposed his team in a 3-4-2-1 formation.

Before the kick-off the home team's defeat had odds of 2.15, which explains why it was considered a fairly even match.

This was certainly not the best performance of the season for the defense. Fraser Horsfall leads the departmental disaster: with his late interventions and bad passes he allowed many chances to the opposing team's attacks.

Birmingham City last match

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, Birmingham City, who used a 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the Burton Albion team with a final score of 2-0.

This positive result confirmed their favoritism before the game, which had odds of 1.25.

Stockport County vs Birmingham City h2h

Birmingham City was in 3rd place in the League One while Stockport County was in 5th place, the last time these teams faced each other. Birmingham City team entered the field with the 3-4-2-1 formation, the same tactic Stockport County used in the match.

The last time these teams met was less than a month ago, on 04-12-2024. In a League One 2024/2025 match, Birmingham City came out on top and beat their rivals by 2-0.

The Birmingham City team in the last five matches has achieved more regular results, with a total of 5 wins, compared to the Stockport County team, which won only 2 matches.

In this game, M. Cunliffe and L. Raper will support P. Howard who will be in charge of the game on the football field.

Stockport County

League One leaderboard now

The Stockport County team with 36 points currently occupies the 5th place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Promotion Play-off, with a campaign of 10 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses.

Which means that, with an advantage of 2 points, the team is ahead the Reading team closing in at the 6th place in the 24th round.

Stockport County analysis

After round number 23 in League One, Stockport County has 34 goals scored and 23 conceded.

The Stockport County team comes from a defeat in the League One, and its coach Dave Challinor wants to counter this trend by imposing a loss on his opponent, using the advantage of playing at home.

While having won 3 games playing away from home, this team knows how to take advantage of their home court with 7 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws.

Best goalscorer from Stockport County

Louie Barry has proved to be a tremendous individual asset for the team's offense this season. With 14 goals scored in the competition, the Attacker has been instrumental in leading Stockport County to obtain favorable outcomes on several occasions.

It should also be noted that 4 of the goals scored by the player were from the penalty spot.

Birmingham City

League One leaderboard now

The Birmingham City team with 48 points currently occupies the 1st place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Promotion, with a campaign of 15 wins, 3 draws, and 2 losses.

Birmingham City analysis

Birmingham City counted 37 goals scored and 16 conceded at the end of League One day number 23.

With 5 wins in the League One, Birmingham City is in that wonderful position where they are the favorite.

This is a top 5 team in the League One that wants to keep up with the good performances!

The Birmingham City team usually tries to control the game with an average ball possession of 69.45%. Teams with ball possession above 50% typically have some control over the opponents.

With away his balance of 7 wins, 2 losses, and 1 draw in the League One, opposing teams usually have slim chances of winning.

Coming from a 5 wins streak in the League One, Birmingham City will try to get a good result in this game, even if they are playing away from home, mainly because playing away Birmingham City in 10 games, only lost twice.

Birmingham City is a more offensive team than Stockport County, having 2295 attacks vs. 2211 from Stockport County, having scored 37 times, in comparison, Stockport County converted into goal 34 times.

Best goalscorer from Birmingham City

If we want to highlight a player from the team's attack at this stage, we have to name Jay Stansfield. The Attacker scored 12 goals in the current season, helping Birmingham City to achieve victory in several disputes.

It should also be noted that 5 of the goals scored by the player were from the penalty spot.

Now a few markets where you can get some return from your bets:

Goals Top Betting Tips

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Stockport County is Louie Barry, who has already scored 14 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Birmingham City is Jay Stansfield, he has scored in 12 opportunities.

A good time to bet for those watching the live game is in the 75-90 minute period where most goals happen.

In this game, our system found another interesting opportunity for a successful bet. Both teams score and usually suffer the first goal between the 30-40 minute. With this convergence, it is typically a value market!

Corners Top Betting Tips

There is an average of 5.2 corners per game, making this a good thing to note if one wishes to obtain good results in sports betting.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.7 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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