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Thanks for the Memories – Burnley Preview
Birmingham City head north to take on Sean Dyche’s Clarets as Blues look to try to gain their first win of 2013. It promises to be a tough test for Lee Clark as Burnley look to push for a playoff place whilst Blues are holding on above the relegation trap-door.
Burnley
The Clarets are in a terrific run of form at the moment, having won five of their last six games since drawing at St Andrews on December 22 – with the only defeat coming in the FA Cup. Indeed, the last player to score against Burnley in the Championship was Nikola Zigic, who equalised in the 89th minute to give Blues a point in the pre-Christmas clash.
Striker Charlie Austin may be out still with a hamstring injury but Ben Mee and Kevin Long may return. Danny Ings will be looking to continue his run of good form up front should Austin continue to be sidelined.
Blues
Blues will have to give a late fitness test to Jonathan Spector but otherwise it’s a relatively full squad that will travel north with only long-term injury victims Stephen Carr, David Murphy, Darren Ambrose and Will Packwood plus Keith Fahey not travelling north.
After last week’s bizarre non-selection of strikers, the question will be whether Clark will return to Marlon King and Nikola Zigic once more – particularly after their performances off the bench which rescued a point for Blues. Ravel Morrison has suffered with illness all week and thus could miss out and I expect we may well see either Mullins and Gomis or Mullins and Reilly in the middle today. Paul Robinson remains in the squad having signed a deal until the end of the season.
Burnley seem confident that they will pick up the points today and looking at their form it’s hard to argue with that. The sad thing is that this game could be a swansong for a few players as the transfer window comes to an end – if that is the case I hope they leave us with a final flourish and some good memories.
Correction: As pointed out by Jim the Nose on SHA, Burnley lost 1-0 to Leicester on December 29 and thus David Nugent is the last player to score past them. Sorry.
Tags: Burnley FC, Jonathan Spector, Marlon King, Nikola Zigic, Ravel Morrison
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Spot on ;) vital 3pts with Sheff Wed & Bristol C both winning.
And we didn’t play too badly!!! Hurrah!!
Blues win in playing strikers shocker! XD Well worked from what I heard, anyone know what’s up with Hall?
I am sure he played, ??
Came off injured
Isn’t Lee Clark quoted as saying Spector will be unavailable with a chance of making the Forest game. I would put O’Reilly and Mullins in the centre today. Its going to be very tough at Turf Moor with there form I would be very happy with a draw. KRO.
Very happy to be wrong. Great 3 points. KRO.
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Shold play a 4-3-3 with Zigic between Hall and Redmond.
Mullins, Gomis and Reily in the engine room today with Elliott coming on as sub when legs begin to tire.
Hopefully by the time the Forest game comes around Morrison, Johnny Specs and even Fahey could provide further midfield competition. Using substitutes wisely we could keep the tempo high in the middle of the pitch and actually give the back four a bit of protection.
You could even shortly have a back four of Robinson, Caldwell, Ibanez and Caddis with Doyle in goal.
This would still give us a solid enough looking line up that could compete and avoid relegation even without Butland, Davis, Burke and King. Thoughts?
That back four scares me.
Let us hope that Davies, Does not go during this next few days, !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Only one of the four that scares me is Caldwell,,,,,he is the liability there,,,,,
TBH that isn’t a bad lineup, maybe re-jig it with having NR & RH slightly wide and ahead of ziggy. Sort of a 4-3-1-2.
Zig & King up front gives us a chance,and it will be interesting to see the line up,if both of these players are again left out of the 1st xl its either to avoid injury(due to sale) or we are close to owing a load of cash based on appearances or bonus.
it will be telling to see just how much effort and commitment Davies puts into his game today; similarly King if they are on the brink of departing.
Id defo leave out any1 leaving,well thats if we knw who is,1 thing i think we,ll see is burke joining forest and making debut next week at st andrews,and we all know he,ll have his best ever game that day 2
Im all for the squad being ripped apart and re-built under Lee Clark with hungry young players.
4-4-2 today please Mr Clark
Have we the league record this season for scoring the most goals on or around the 90th minute?
Wowee, !!!. We needed those 3, points, !!!!!!!!.
Well Done !! …… LEE CLARK !!
Good result. Leaving presents from Davies and King.
At last some good news!
Exclusive in the Sunday People.
Zigic wages go up to £70 thousand a week from next season !!
No wonder he & his family LOVE BIRMINGHAM CITY.
Brilliant yesterday, freezing cold though.
Great backing from the fans and now we’re 8 points clear of the relegation zone so all the histrionics over Clark now look a bit lame lol.
Oh and all those saying the team dont wanna play for Clark should have gone to this game.
More bullshit.