Birmingham - Arsenal Arsenal remain in contention for the title due to the shortcomings of other contenders. In previous years, the recent defeats against Tottenham and Manchester United and the two points dropped at Wigan in midweek would have been much more damaging. They are strengthened at St Andrew's by the return to the starting line-up of Cesc Fábregas, in for the injured Abou Diaby, and have leading scorer Samir Nasri available. Birmingham are unchanged after Tuesday's 1-1 draw with United. They are above the bottom three only on goal difference, but their form is not as bad as that might suggest, and only United and Chelsea have conceded fewer goals at home. Joe Lovejoy  Birmingham Subs from Taylor, Hleb, Fahey, Zigic, Murphy, Derbyshire, Míchel, Jiranek, Parnaby, Phillips, Redmond Injured McFadden (knee, 26 Jan), Vallès (foot, Mar) Form guide DLDDWD Leading scorer Gardner 4 Arsenal Subs from Szczesny, Van Persie, Vela, Eboué, Squillaci, Rosicky, Chamakh, Arshavin, Emmanuel-Thomas, Denílson Injured Almunia (ankle, 15 Jan), Gibbs (ankle, 15 Jan), Diaby (calf, Feb), Vermaelen (achilles, Feb), Frimpong (knee, May) Form guide DWLWWL Leading scorer Nasri 8 Birmingham home: 3 wins, 5 draws, 1 lose. 7 out of 9 - under 2.5. Stata Birmy s silnymi sopernikami: (betteam.ru) Бирмингем - Челси - 0:0 Бирмингем - Манчестер Юн. - 1:1 Бирмингем - Арсенал. - 1:1 Бирмингем - Тоттенхэм - 1:1 Бирмингем - Everton - 2:2 Бирмингем - Манчестер С. - 0:0 Бирмингем - Астон Вилла - 0:1 Бирмингем - Ливерпуль - 1:1 Если вы думаете, что в этом чемпионате Бирмингем стал играть по-другому, то сильно ошибаетесь. Да, команда идет на 17-ом месте, но также сильна дома и серьезно настраивается на лидеров: Бирмингем - Everton - 0:2 Бирмингем - Челси - 1:0 Бирмингем - Тоттенхэм - 1:1 Бирмингем - Ливерпуль - 0:0 Бирмингем - Манчестер Юн. - 1:1 Kak my vidim ochen' valuina nich'ya, nu i total menshe. Arsenal away: 5 wins, 3 draws, 2 loses. 5 under 2.5, 5 over 2.5. All 3 draws are score draws. Head 2 Head: Brum 1 win, 2 draws, 3 Ars wins.
McCleish and Wenger met twice and both times the games end up with draws.
Stavki:
Samoi valuinoi dlya sebya vizhu nich'yu, igrat' 1X dumayu ne vygodno, poetomu prosto X za 3.6 (bet365). Po totalu menshe (1.98) kak-to stremno, no vrode by igrabelno (no sam brat' ne budu). Schet: 1:1 - 7.0 Goalscorer: Nasri to score anytime za 2.4 (bet365), no malo platyat 4e-to tam.
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