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Everton face a trip to Birmingham City at St. Andrew's on Saturday evening, having the edge over their hosts in previous meetings. The visitors have won 20 of the 56 previous games, with the hosts winning just 19.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was less than a year ago, in February 2004, with Birmingham C. running out comfortable 3 - 0 winners in a Premiership match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2003/2004 | Wed 11 Feb | Birmingham C. | 3 - 0 | Everton | PREM |
| 2003/2004 | Sun 28 Dec | Everton | 1 - 0 | Birmingham C. | PREM |
| 2002/2003 | Thu 26 Dec | Birmingham C. | 1 - 1 | Everton | PREM |
| 2002/2003 | Wed 28 Aug | Everton | 1 - 1 | Birmingham C. | PREM |
| 1999/2000 | Sat 08 Jan | Everton | 2 - 0 | Birmingham C. | FAC |
| 1985/1986 | Sat 18 Jan | Birmingham C. | 0 - 2 | Everton | PREM |
| 1985/1986 | Sat 31 Aug | Everton | 4 - 1 | Birmingham C. | PREM |
Recent respective form guides
Birmingham City have only collected 1 win and 3 draws from the last six home games played. A generous 6 goals have been both scored and conceded in this period.
Everton's away form is none too clever either, coming away with three points on 3 occassions, but drawing 1 and losing 2. A generous 8 goals have been both scored and conceded in this period.
Birmingham C. find themselves struggling down in 15th position in the league having picked up 12 points from their 12 matches. Everton sit in a healthy 3rd in the league, and have picked up 23 points from their 12 games.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Birmingham C. | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Everton | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 10 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Everton are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Birmingham C. | Been beaten in each of their previous 2 home matches. Failed to win in previous 4 home matches. Not drawn a match in their last 3 . |
| Everton | Lost each of the previous 2 away matches. Not won in previous 2 away matches. An overall losing run of 2 games. No win in the 3 most recent games. |