The Championship table points to a comfortable away victory for Birmingham against QPR today, but a look to past history offers a word of caution.
Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett
The Blues are unbeaten away from St Andrew’s picking up eight points and only conceding two goals in those four games.
Their iron clad defence has provided the platform behind their strong start to the season, conceding a equal league low of six goals.
Birmingham’s Ryan Shotton and Burnley’s Ashley Barnes in action
They have had some tricky fixtures to negotiate, but for the most part have shown great resilience to currently sit in the top five.
Their clash against QPR today brings up one of those quirky stats that Football often delivers.
You have to go all the way back to September 2006 for the last time that Birmingham City tasted success at Loftus Road.
The goal scorers on that day was Bruno N’Gotty and Cameron Jerome in a 2-0 victory.
Since that clash they have suffered three straight defeats in 2008/9, 2013/14 and a 2-0 loss last season.
In their last five games against QPR, Birmingham have only scored two goals,which came in their 2-1 win last October at St Andrews.
Their challenge to break that poor record of results suffered a setback with news that top scorer Clayton Donaldson is in doubt with a Achilles injury.
Birmingham’s Clayton Donaldson
The striker suffered the injury in the lead up to the winning goal against Sheffield Wednesday last week.
Through adversity comes opportunity, and that may come today for Burnley loanee Lukas Jutkiewicz who scored the winner against Wednesday, his first goal for two years.
Lukas Jutkiewicz in Burnley colours now at loan at Birmingham.
After a couple of seasons of mid table obscurity, a win today can set up the Blues nicely for the games ahead.
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