We said: Birmingham City 2-1 Blackpool
Unbeaten across 10 League One home matches this season, Birmingham will be very confident of concluding a chaotic 2024 with maximum points on Sunday.
Blackpool arrive in the Second City just days after their heartbreaking defeat to Wrexham, and we feel that Tangerines will suffer one more loss before the turn of the year.
Read more.Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Birmingham City win with a probability of 64.12%. A draw had a probability of 20.4% and a win for Blackpool had a probability of 15.46%.
The most likely scoreline for a Birmingham City win was 2-0 with a probability of 11.14%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-0 (10.93%) and 2-1 (9.89%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 1-1 (9.69%), while for a Blackpool win it was 0-1 (4.75%). The actual scoreline of 0-0 was predicted with a 5.4% likelihood.