BIRMINGHAM CITY v
CARDIFF CITYFriday 13th October 2017, 7.45pm
SkyBet Championship
St Andrews StadiumCardiff:Etheridge, Peltier, Bennett, Morrison, Manga, Bamba, Ralls, Bryson, Hoilett, Mendez-Laing and Zohore.
Subs :
Murphy, Connolly, Gunnarsson, Damour, Tomlin, Feeney and Ward.
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City have sold over a 1,000 tickets
' TEAM NEWS '
' Birmingham '
The Blues have received a triple fitness boost ahead of the game, with new manager Steve Cotterill confirming that Che Adams, Jason Lowe and record signing Jota are all available.
Goalkeeper David Stockdale (arm) and full-back Carl Jenkinson (shoulder) will miss out through injury.
' Cardiff City '
Aron Gunnarsson will have a late fitness test while Bruno Manga could miss out after a diarrhoea epidemic struck while his Gabon side played in Morocco over the international break.
Rhys Healey and Kadeem Harris remain sidelined while Warnock has said the game will come too soon for summer signings Lee Camp and Callum Paterson.
Loan midfielder Craig Bryson is available again after being ineligible to face his parent club Derby County in Cardiff's goalless draw before the international break.
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Latest on injured stars
Neil Warnock:
"Camp and Paterson played again the other day and we’ve got Rhys Healey coming back again."
' BRUNO MANGA '
Neil Warnock: "We’ve just got to wait and see about (Bruno) Manga. They had a diarrhoea epidemic in Morocco, they played on Tuesday in Paris as well so we haven’t seen him yet. The goal keeper (Neil) Etheridge we haven’t seen yet either."
Neil Warnock on Gunnarsson's fitness
"He came yesterday, we trained fully but he didn’t. He said he had cramps over there after the first game — not a problem from his original injury. He just did a warm up yesterday. We’ll see what he’s like today. If there’s any doubt we won’t play him. We played him at Fulham but at Preston he was poor. He wasn’t on his own though."
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Birmingham City, who have been handed a triple injury boost after the international break.
Jason Lowe, record signing Jota and Che Adams have all been passed fit for Steve Cotterill’s side.
10/10/17
Cardiff City have a 2,500 ticket allocation, tickets £5 & £20(Very cheap), just over 1,000 sold so far.
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About Birmingham CityBirmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, they became Small Heath in 1888, then Birmingham in 1905, finally becoming Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.
As Small Heath, they played in the Football Alliance before becoming founder members and first ever champions of the Football League Second Division. The most successful period in their history was in the 1950s and early 1960s. They achieved their highest finishing position of sixth in the First Division in the 1955–56 season and reached the 1956 FA Cup Final, progressed to the final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960 and 1961, and won their first major trophy, the League Cup, in 1963, beating Aston Villa 3–1 on aggregate. They won the latter competition for the second time in 2011. They have played in the top tier of English football for around half of their history: the longest period spent outside the top division, between 1986 and 2002, included two brief spells in the third tier of the English League, during which time they twice won the Football League Trophy.
St Andrew's has been their home ground since 1906. They have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with Aston Villa, their nearest neighbours, with whom they play the Second City derby. The club's nickname is Blues, after the colour of their kit, and their fans are known as Bluenoses.
Team News - Predicted Line-UpsCardiff City: Etheridge, Peltier, Morrison, Manga, Bennett, Bamba, Damour, Gunnarsson, Hoilett, Mendez-Laing, Zohore
Birmingham City: Kuszczak, Nsue, Morrison, Dean, Colin, Davis, Gardner, Ndoye, Maghoma, Jutkiewicz, Boga
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Match OddsBirmingham City - 12/5
Cardiff City - 23/20
Draw - 23/10
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