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  • Birmingham have won one of their last 11 league meetings with Cardiff (D6 L4), a 1-0 victory at St. Andrew's in December 2015.
  • The Bluebirds have picked up two wins in their last 27 away visits to Birmingham in all competitions and haven't scored a single goal in any of their last three.
  • Steve Cotterill is set to take charge of his first Birmingham match - his last league meeting against Neil Warnock came in March 2012, with Cotterill's Nottingham Forest inflicting a 7-3 defeat on Warnock's Leeds side.
  • Cotterill has collected 23 from a possible 81 points in his last 27 home Championship games (W5 D8 L14).
  • Nathaniel Mendez-Laing has been involved in 10 goals in his last 14 league games (four goals, six assists).
  • Cardiff have won three more league matches in 2017 (18) than they managed in the entirety of 2016 (15).