Birmingham City will hope to record a fourth Championship win on the bounce when they visit Cardiff City on Saturday afternoon (kick-off 15:00 BST).

Victory for the fourth-placed Blues would make it their best winning run in the second tier since October 2018 when they also won four in a row.

The Bluebirds have enjoyed two good recent results, thrashing Watford 5-1 before picking up a 2-2 draw at promotion favourites Middlesbrough.

Brian Barry-Murphy's side start the weekend three points above the drop zone.

• Cardiff City have lost just one of their past 11 league games against Birmingham City (W7 D3), failing to score in just one of those matches.

• After winning their most recent away league game in this fixture 1-0 in December 2023, Birmingham City will be looking for successive away league wins over Cardiff City for the first time since December 1994.

• Cardiff are unbeaten across their past nine home league games (W5 D4), scoring 2.2 goals on average per game across that time.

• Birmingham City have won each of their past three league games without conceding; they last enjoyed a longer such run in November 2006 (run of five).

• Birmingham have conceded just six goals from open play in the Championship so far this season, with only West Ham United conceding fewer in the competition (5), while Blues rank sixth-best for open play xGA (8.9).