A decent record and Juninho Bacuna - what Huddersfield Town can expect from Birmingham City game

Town travel to Birmingham this weekend hoping to keep their sixteen-game unbeaten run going.

Fourth in the table and flying, the Terriers are beating table toppers, scoring late winners, and everything in between in what is shaping up to be their best season in years.

After a momentous six-points from the last two games it feels like Town are on a march and with another big week ahead they will be cautiously optimistic that they might be able to carry on. Birmingham are tough to play against, but they’ve now lost three of the last six and their season has petered out already.

Saturday’s trip to St Andrew’s is the next stop then, time to look a little bit into what they might expect.

Town have a mixed history against Birmingham but bizarrely tend to do much better against them at St Andrew’s than at home. Town have five wins from their last eight visits to Brum and edge the overall head-to-head between the two as well.

Home games tend to be cagey affairs at the John Smith’s - the last six have ended in draws - but away ones tend to bring a winner. There are also usually goals, this season’s drab 0-0 at the John Smith’s not really representative of the fixture and the first goalless game between the sides since 2000. Nothing to fear from the past then.

Birmingham are a weird side, somehow less than the sum of their parts. On paper they have a pretty decent squad, certainly in the attacking sense where they have both proven quality and promising potential, and yet they are 18th in the table for a reason.

This season they have beaten Sheffield United, Luton, Swansea, Middlesbrough and others, and yet also lost to Peterborough, Reading twice, and conceded ten to Fulham across two games. They concede too many, they don’t