• Birmingham are fresh off a 2-0 win at Oxford

• Leicester lost 2-0 at home to Charlton last Saturday

• Recommended bet: Draw or Leicester Double Chance

Birmingham's promotion push is up and running again after last weekend's 2-0 win at Oxford and they will see Leicester as there for the taking when the two teams meet at St Andrew’s on Saturday.

The Foxes sacked Marti Cifuentes after a 2-1 home defeat to Oxford, but there was no new-manager bounce, as they followed that embarrassment with a 2-0 loss to Charlton under interim boss Andy King.

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Team news

Carlos Vicente, impressive off the bench at Oxford last week, is in line for his first Birmingham start after signing from LaLiga side Alaves where he had bagged 10 goals this term, including against both Madrid giants.

Blues' boss Chris Davies could have a hole to plug at right-back with Tomoki Iwata expected to be sidelined.

Leicester suffered two big personnel losses in last weekend's defeat to Charlton with defender Caleb Okoli getting sent off and Hamza Choudhury picking up an injury. Both miss the trip to St Andrew’s.

Jannik Vestergaard is also a doubt which means new signing Jamaal Lascelles could get a first start.

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The stats

Birmingham have played 14 home games in the Championship this season and lost just one of them. 

Blues are on a six-match unbeaten run across all competitions, last losing on New Year’s Day at Watford.

Managerless Leicester have taken one point from the last 12 available to slump into the bottom half.

Birmingham have seen a Championship-high four red cards this season. Leicester are only one behind on three.

The Foxes have won their last seven showdowns against Birmingham in all competitions.

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Prediction

It is hard to know quite what to make of Leicester under Andy King given Caleb Okoli's 15th-minute red card at home to Charlton last week pretty much derailed the caretaker manager's victory chances on his debut in the dugout.

The Addicks went on to win 2-0 as Leicester dropped deeper into the mire but King has the reins again, this time at fortress St Andrew’s.

Birmingham have lost just once at home in the league — and that was back in mid-October against Hull — and are rightly short-priced with LiveScoreBet to see off the floundering Foxes.

But Leicester have a few things possibly in their favour, the first of which is a faith in King that probably was not there in predecessor Cifuentes.

Second, they boast a formidable head-to-head record against Birmingham, who they beat 2-0 on August 29, a seventh straight win against them.

And then there are some really eye-catching window signings, among them Jamaal Lascelles from Newcastle to beef up the defence, young Man City midfielder Divine Mukasa and Jamaica international striker Dujuan Richards, picked up from Chelsea.

Suddenly there are reasons to be mildly optimistic that the rot is about to stop and given Birmingham have drawn four of their last five at home, why not make it five from six?

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