Birmingham open their home campaign having lost only three of their past 46 league games at St Andrew's with all those defeats coming on their return to the Championship last season.
Bristol City started life under Michael Skubala with a 2-0 home loss to Millwall and, coupled with their Carabao Cup exit to Walsall, are yet to score this season.
- Birmingham City have won three of their past four home league games against Bristol City (D1), keeping a clean sheet in three of those matches which is as many as they managed across their prior 14 attempts combined.
- Bristol City have lost eight of their past 13 away league games against Birmingham City (W3 D2), losing this exact fixture 2-1 last season at St Andrew's.
- Following a 0-0 draw with Sheffield United on the opening day, Birmingham will be hoping to avoid failing to score in each of their first two league matches of a campaign since 2002-03 – losing 2-0 to Arsenal and 1-0 to Blackburn in the Premier League that season.
- After defeat by Millwall, Bristol City will be hoping to avoid losing their opening two league games of a campaign for just the second time over the past 11 campaigns (lost both in 2022-23).
- Last season in the Championship, only title winners Coventry recorded more shots (397) and more shots on target (130) in their home matches than Birmingham.
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