This weekends featured TV games include one of favourites for promotion, Derby, who travel to Birmingham in a midlands derby with the Rams still searching for their first win of the campaign. Quite possibly one of the bigger grudge matches in the Championship will take place this Saturday as Leeds host neighbours Sheffield Wednesday. Ending the weekend televised procedures are Cardiff and Wolves on Saturday evening.
All odds are taken from The72’s bookmaker, which you can find here.
A £20 bet on both teams to score in each of the televised games returns £120! If they don’t win, you could get your money back anyway!
BIRMINGHAM V DERBY (Friday, August 21st, 7.45pm)
Birmingham have only one victory out of the last eight meetings between themselves and Derby, the triumph coming at St. Andrews Stadium in March 2013. This fixture is generally a high scoring affair; 14 goals in the last three meetings. Both teams to score and draw is 3/1. Over 4.5 goals on Friday can be found at 5/1. Derby are priced at 7/5 to get their much needed first victory of the season, Birmingham are 15/8 to continue their 100% home form (worth noting Birmingham last lost in the league at home in February). Clayton Donaldson is still in search of his first goal of the season despite coming close on several occasions, the Blues striker is 6/1 to score first. It would be rude to ignore Birmingham’s inform new signing; Jon Toral, with two goals in two games the midfielder is priced at 5/2 to score anytime. Rams striker Chris Martin opened his account last weekend; Martin is marked at 18/1 to score inside the first 10 minutes on Friday evening.
FACT: Birmingham manager Gary Rowett has previously played for both Birmingham (86 appearances) and Derby County (105 appearances)
